GlueX Software Meeting, April 7, 2025

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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, April 7, 2025
11:00 am EDT
F326/327

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Agenda

  1. Announcements
    • Duplicated files will be deleted in ~50 days ,check yours with jcache duplicatedFileInfo halld (-l)
    • GlueX Tutorial 2025 : May 12
    • New cooking skim proposed by Nathan is working. Use 5 32 threads jobs on one node instead of running 1 32 threads job on one node. => Cost reduction by a factor 4.5 and will consume ~50k node hours for 2023-01 data set
      • 6 16 threads jobs on one node, 43-perl, id=37489380, rate=146.79Hz, success efficiency=.9646, cost 101.23 node hrs, processing time 11043s
      • 5 32 threads jobs on one node, 42-perl, id=37480365, rate=188.95Hz, success efficiency=.9494, cost 96.35 node hrs, processing time 8894s
      • 5 32 threads jobs on one node, 45-perl, id=37498699, rate=189.09Hz, success efficiency=.9494, cost 95.63 node hrs, processing time 8827s
      • 4 64 threads jobs on one node, 44-perl, id=37498697, rate=173.53Hz, success efficiency=.9545, cost 131.46 node hrs, processing time 9658s
  2. Review of minutes and action items
  3. Software status:
    • Pull_request test currently running on halld-cron-2024 (RHEL9), but connection from halldweb refused (Wesley)
  4. Container status
  5. GitLab
  6. MCWrapper status:
    • Project to switch containers in-flight: #134
  7. RUCIO update (Anil)
  8. Update on new halld_recon libraries:
    • Helicity
    • TRD
    • ECAL
  9. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
  10. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
    1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
    2. halld_sim: Issues, PRs
    3. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs
    4. MCwrapper: Issues, PRs
    5. gluex_root_analysis: Issues, PRs
  11. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Notes

Action Items

  1. Documentation
    • Improve documentation on singularity containers
  2. Check if native build works for container on Alma9, eventually get rid of -cntr builds
  3. Software Upgrades
    • halld_recon:
      • $HALLD_RECON_HOME/src/BMS is deprecated, remove from the repo?
      • Remove dependency on histogram tools [1] (Sean, partly done)
      • #842: Locking in JANA, CDC plugins fixed
      • Make large 2D histograms in monitoring_hists optional: request for OSG production
      • Implement decoding and monitoring for TRD prototype (Sean, Simon, Lubomir, Nizar)
      • Implement decoding and monitoring for beam helicity measurements (Mark D. Justin, Ken, Peter)
    • gluex_MCWrapper:
      • MCWrapper needs possibility to switch between operating systems / containers during workflow: #134 created
    • RCDB (Dmitry):
      • Fix bug in upgrade command (Sean, Dmitry)
      • Move new webpage to halldweb (Dmitry, Sherman)
  4. Broken tape
    • IBM was not able to recover, data lost
    • 14839 files (1357 REST) from 2017-01 ver04, about 5%
    • Full list, reprocess?