GlueX Software Meeting, March 10, 2025
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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, March 10, 2025
11:00 am EDT
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Agenda
- Announcements
- New JLab Research Database (Anil)
- Report from the March sciops meeting: slides
- Review of minutes and action items
- Software status:
- Pull_request test was running on jlabl5 (RHEL9), but connection from halldweb currently refused (Wesley)
- Container status
- GitLab
- 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
- RUCIO:
- Anil is focusing on EIC right now, GlueX can adopt system once it is running
- Update on new halld_recon libraries:
- Helicity
- TRD
- ECAL
- Discussion of software upgrade projects:
- JANA2 (Raiqa)
- Transition to JANA2 wiki page
- Performance studies
- RCDB (Dmitry)
- Upgraded database: gluondb1.jlab.org/rcdb2 or hallddb.jlab.org/rcdb2, automatically selected by gxenv
- DAQ is writing to rcdb2
- New (temporary) website: rcdb.pythonanywhere.com/runs/, moving to halldwebdev (RHEL9, Sherman)
- ROOT
- version 6.32.08 in counting house, compiled with c++20
- minor changes needed for c++20 in hdds, amptools
- JANA2 (Raiqa)
- Review of recent issues and pull requests:
- Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)
Notes
- ELog book search will be implemented in JLRD next
- Helicity:
- New board: initialized properly, but data still junk (Sean, FE)
- Decoding of 2023:
- factory would only work single-threaded
- plugin does not work in JANA2 (Raiqa, fixed)
- Action item: note, description
- TRD
- Geometry (Simon, done)
- Translation table (Justin, done)
- Decoding and reconstruction: works with JANA2 (Sean, Nizar, Lauren)
- Reconstruction problems:
- Broken files raw identified, HOSS problem
- Choke points: CCDB, locks, something else?
- Memory leak from REST, partly fixed by PR #894
- Hdgeant4 graphical interface:
- How-To page
- Geantino page (Beni)
Action Items
- Documentation
- Improve documentation on singularity containers
- Check if native build works for container on Alma9, eventually get rid of -cntr builds
- 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)
- halld_recon:
- Broken tape
- IBM was not able to recover, data lost
- 14839 files (1357 REST) from 2017-01 ver04, about 5%
- Full list, reprocess?
