Revision as of 15:26, 6 February 2014

GlueX Data Challenge Meeting
Friady, February 7, 2014
11:30 pm, EST
JLab: CEBAF Center, F326/7
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Agenda

1. Announcements
2. Agreed upon parameters.
   • Nominal goal is 10 billion events.
   • Phythia/BGGEN events from 7.0GeV to the endpoint.
   • Normal run will be in REST format.
   • Specialized block (at JLab) that retains HDGEANT output (for tape tests)?
   • Target distribution to be nominal LH2 as handled by HDGEANT.
   • srm servers at UCONN and NWU will receive grid events?
   • Jlab events will be written at JLAB.
   • CMU events will be written at CMU.
3. Status of Preparations
   • Update on phi=0 geometry issues in CDC? Simon/Richard
   • Random number seeds procedure? Mark/Anyone
   • Electromagnetic Backgrounds update. Kei
   • Check on event genealogy. Kei
   • JLab CC is ready, what do we need to tell them. Mark
   • Preparations of standard distribution/scripts Mark/Richard/Sean
   • 100-job tests at various sites. Jlab/Grid/CMU,NWU, ....
4. Open Stack Overview
5. Proposed Schedule
   • Launch of Data Challenge Thursday Feb.27, 2014 (est.).
   • Test jobs going successfully by Tuesday February 25.
   • Distribution ready by Monday February 24.
6. AOT