GlueX Data Challenge Meeting, November 5, 2012

GlueX Data Challenge Meeting
Monday, November 5, 2012
1:30 pm, EDT
JLab: CEBAF Center, F326/327

Agenda

1. Announcements
2. Minutes from last time
3. Setting conditions for DC-1
   1. Conditions in Subversion repository
      • base directory
   2. Status of the tagged release for DC 1, 11/5/2012
4. JLab Farm Mini-Challenge Status
5. Grid status
6. CMU status
7. New action items

Meeting Connections

To connect from the outside:

1. ESNET:
   • Call ESNET Number 8542553 (this is the preferred connection method).
2. Phone: (should not be needed)
   • +1-866-740-1260 : US and Canada
   • +1-303-248-0285 : International
   • then use participant code: 3421244# (the # is needed when using the phone)
   • or www.readytalk.com
     • then type access code 3421244 into "join a meeting" (you need java plugin)
3. EVO:
   • A conference has been booked under "GlueX" from 1:00pm until 3:30pm (EST).
   • Direct meeting link
   • To phone into an EVO meeting, from the U.S. call (626) 395-2112 and then enter the EVO meeting code, 13 9993
     • Instructions for the Phone Bridge to EVO.
   • Skype Bridge to EVO

Minutes

Present:

• CMU: Paul Mattione, Curtis Meyer
• FSU: Nathan Sparks
• JLab: Mark Ito (chair), David Lawrence, Dmitry Romanov, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
• UConn: Alex Barnes

Minutes from last time

We went over the minutes from October 22. No new discussion items were generated.

Setting conditions for DC 1

Conditions in Subversion repository

We reviewed the system that Mark proposed in his email of October 26. The associated web-page specifies versions, command arguments, and has links to configuration files. The files themselves can be obtained via Subversion directly.

Status of the tagged release for DC 1

Mark detailed the difficulties he has been having creating a tagged release that satisfies all of our requirements. The next thing to try is a version of Jana 0.6.5 linked with an older version of Xerces-c (version 2.x).

JLab Farm Mini-Challenge Status

Mark summarized the state of the CentOS 6 farm nodes over the past couple of weeks. Very little progress has been made with mini-challenges due to limited availability.

Git

Discussion of conversion from Subversion to Git for version control was deferred to a future offline software meeting.