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==Review of minutes from the last meeting==
 
==Review of minutes from the last meeting==

Latest revision as of 13:04, 31 March 2015

GlueX Offline Software Meeting
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
1:30 pm EST
JLab: CEBAF Center F326

Agenda

  1. Announcements
    1. Single-track jobs running: Simon, Mark
  2. Review of minutes from the last meeting: all
  3. Reconstruction sub-group reports
    1. Calorimeters
    2. Tracking
    3. PID
  4. Offline Software Review Planning
  5. Reconstruction Output Format: all
  6. EventStore
  7. Action Item Review
  8. Review of recent repository activity: all

Communication Information

Video Conferencing

Slides

Talks can be deposited in the directory /group/halld/www/halldweb/html/talks/2012-1Q on the JLab CUE. This directory is accessible from the web at https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2012-1Q/ .

Minutes

Present:

  • CMU: Will Levine, Curtis Meyer
  • FSU: Nathan Sparks
  • IU: Ryan Mitchell, Kei Moriya, Matt Shepherd
  • JLab: Mark Ito (chair), Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann

Announcements

Simon and Mark reported that single-charged-track diagnostic jobs are now running nightly on an ifarm machine at JLab. The success probability is still a bit low (due to Computer Center controls of multiple jobs) and adjustments will have to be made, but some results can be seen at the top-level web page.

Review of minutes from the last meeting

We reviewed the minutes from the previous meeting, from before the collaboration meeting, without significant comment.

Reconstruction sub-group reports

Calorimeters

Will gave a summary of his work thus far characterizing photon reconstruction in b_{1}\pi events. See his wiki page for details and plots. He studied the BCAL and FCAL separately. In the BCAL he sees about a factor of three more photons reconstructed than thrown but a simple timing cut eliminates most of the spurious reconstructed photons, leaving the right number and a reasonable energy spectrum. In the FCAL there is a similar multiplication in photons from generated to reconstructed, but timing only removes half of the total (a larger factor is desired). Will is investigating these issues further.

Tracking

Simon told us about his recent change to the tracking code. Simple version [oversimple?]: FDC hits are no longer used by the CDC track factory.

Reconstruction Output Format

We talked about the UConn DST format. Mark (echoing Matt's comment at the last meeting) proposed that we support it as a collaboration and use it as a starting point for a reconstruction output format. It exists, it has been reviewed at some level by the collaboration, and had been designed with compactness in mind.

Matt reiterated his concept that analysis should take place with high-level objects in JANA. As such the DST should contain the minimum amount of information needed to recreate all the necessary objects. Some computation may be required to do this. It is therefore not necessary for there to be a one-to-one correspondence between elements in the DST event structure and the structure of the high-level analysis objects, although that is not excluded where appropriate.

Mark wondered whether the current DST could support this vision as it was not designed with this role in mind. Matt did not see any evidence that it could not. He thought we should focus our design effort on the structure of the analysis objects. If necessary, the DST and the lower-level objects could be reworked to support them; some tweaking and iteration will be necessary.

We agreed to proceed this way along these lines and adopt the UConn DST as an initial serialization format.

We talked briefly about making utilities to make say ROOT trees from DST's. Matt thought rather that it would be better to create the root trees from analysis objects, using the DST's to provide data to create said objects.

EventStore

We talked about the EventStore system and its possible use by GlueX.

Matt declined to describe the EventStore system, stating that everything that needed to be said was in the email he sent out to the offline group. As such we dove directly into discussion.

The EventStore has some features that were remarked upon:

  • Creating skims without duplication of events themselves by storing only "pointers" to events
  • Hooks for specifying the version of the code used to reconstruct events
  • Hooks for skimming events based on various database-resident criteria
  • Possibility for using alternate reconstruction code to over-ride that used on previously reconstructed data

Matt knows the developers well. It has been tested used heavily by CLEO-c for many years, with success.

The overarching question is whether this is something we want to pursue and if so, at what priority. Other more detailed questions include:

  • How portable is the code base?
  • How easy is it to add new (our) event formats to the system?
  • How do we implement the random access scheme for our data?
  • How much disk space is required to for GlueX to use it effectively? (CLEO-c required ten's of terabytes.)
  • When do we need this functionality?

The functionality provided by such a system is closely related to the issues raised in our previous discussion of DST's and analysis objects.

Matt thought that an effort could start as a low-level activity since there is no immediate need for it.

We agreed that further exploration was needed and should be pursued.