GlueX Software Meeting, January 27, 2025

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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, January 27, 2025
11:00 am EDT
F326/327

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Zoom Meeting ID: 160 636 9159 Passcode: 888788 Join

Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. Report from the monthly sciops meeting: slides
  3. Review of minutes and action items
  4. Software status:
    • Latest release version_5.22.1.xml
    • Default not yet updated because of pull_request test on RHEL7
    • All other processes are running on RHEL9/Alma9 by default now
  5. Container status
  6. GitLab:
  7. MCWrapper status:
    • Project to switch containers in-flight: #134
    • Some projects use RCDB1, static sqlite file: /group/halld/www/halldweb/html/dist/rcdb_v1.sqlite
  8. RUCIO:
    • Anil is focusing on EIC right now, GlueX can adopt system once it is running
  9. Update on new halld_recon libraries:
    • Helicity
      • Parsing in DEVIOWorkerThread.cc
      • DBeamHelicity_factory
    • TRD
    • ECAL
  10. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
    • JANA2 (Raiqa)
    • RCDB (Dmitry)
      • Upgraded database: gluondb.jlab.org/rcdb2 or hallddb.jlab.org/rcdb2, automatically selected by gxenv
      • Since last week, DAQ is writing to rcdb2
      • New (temporary) website: rcdb.pythonanywhere.com/runs/
    • Geant4 (Richard):
      • Evaluation: compare b1pi test with G4.10.4.p2 and G4.10.7.p4
      • version_5.22.0.xml built with Geant4.10.7.p4
    • ROOT
  11. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
    1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
      • #854: Rename Particle_t enum Unknown to UnknownParticle (Richard)
    2. halld_sim: Issues, PRs
    3. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs
    4. MCwrapper: Issues, PRs
    5. gluex_root_analysis: Issues, PRs
  12. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Notes

  • OSDF/Pelican: Richard was able to access /cache over http, authentication via SciToken, manual staging of files
    • Action Item: Create documentation page
  • Helicity information:
    • Board installed, Sean will help with EVIO implementation, currently waiting for test data
    • λ-half plate: EPICS only in one stream, written to RCDB
    • RCDB can average over run duration, calculate std dev (ask Sean)
    • Better: write entries in CCDB, can be changed as calibration
  • TRD
    • Low level code in place, Translation Table (Justin), Objects (Sean), Geometry (Simon)
  • ECAL
    • Hits (Sasha), Clusters (Simon), Geometry (done), CCDB (done)
  • JANA2 benchmarks:
    • try CCDB sqlite file on local partition

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
    • Alma9 container upgraded to gcc11.5.0, farm is in sync again
  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
    • JANA2 (Raiqa, Nathan):
    • 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?
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