GlueX Software Meeting, August 14, 2023

GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, August 14, 2023
10:00 am EDT
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Agenda

1. Announcements
   • News from the monthly SciComp meeting (slides)
     • Data center outage Aug 10/17
     • JLab SciComp Review 2024 tentatively scheduled for February
     • Alma9 nodes available soon
     • VM cluster online soon
     • Container support?
2. MCWrapper news
3. Status of Centos7.9 container with gxshell
4. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
   • JANA2 (Nathan)
   • Geant4
   • ROOT
   • RHEL8/Alma9
     • Alma9 notes from Sean
   • Remove python2 dependency
5. 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
6. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Minutes and Action Items

1. Announcements
2. Status of Centos7.9 container with gxshell:
   • Ready, requires singularity and CVMFS
3. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
   • JANA2: Nathan was absent
   • Geant4: Compile version set with new version on Centos7.9 and test before upgrading
   • ROOT: Compile version set with new version on Centos7.9 and test before upgrading
   • RHEL8/Alma9
     • Alma9 notes from Sean
     • Will be tested at JLab as soon as nodes are available
     • Root tree problem observed with RHEL8 not yet tested on Alma9
   • Remove python2 dependency
     • Mostly build system, few user scripts
     • MCWrapper