GlueX Offline Meeting, September 18, 2018

GlueX Offline Software Meeting
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
3:00 pm EDT (non-standard time)
JLab: CEBAF Center A110
BlueJeans: 968 592 007

Agenda

1. Announcements
   1. New releases: AmpTools 0.9.4, halld_sim 3.4.0, MCwrapper 2.0.1.
   2. New version of build_scripts: version 1.39
   3. Status of Launches (Alex A.)
      • Analysis Launch 2017-01 ver19 : ~60 channels, ~80TB
      • storage limited, not CPU
2. Review of minutes from the September 4 meeting (all)
3. Review of the HDGeant4 Meeting from September 11
4. Software Items on the Collaboration Meeting Agenda
5. NERSC Update
6. Computing and Software Review
   • Email from Rolf
   • Charge
   • Agenda
7. Review of recent pull requests:
   • halld_recon (all)
   • halld_sim (all)
8. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)
9. Action Item Review (all)

Communication Information

Remote Connection

• The BlueJeans meeting number is 968 592 007 .
• Join the Meeting via BlueJeans

Slides

Talks can be deposited in the directory /group/halld/www/halldweb/html/talks/2018 on the JLab CUE. This directory is accessible from the web at https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2018/ .

Minutes

Present:

• CMU: Naomi Jarvis, Curtis Meyer
• FSU: Sean Dobbs
• JLab: Alex Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Mark Ito (chair), Justin Stevens, Beni Zihlmann
• MIT: Cristiano Fanelli
• Raleigh, NC: David Lawrence
• Yerevan: Hrach Marukyan

There is a recording of this meeting on the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab credentials to access it.

Announcements

1. New releases: AmpTools 0.9.4, halld_sim 3.4.0, MCwrapper 2.0.1. The linked email has links to the release notes for each package.
   • AmpTools 0.9.4: Support for weighted events
   • halld_sim 3.4.0: Gets parameters for drift time-to-distance relationship from the CCDB.
   • MCwrapper 2.0.1: Uses generator binary names consistent with their containing directories.
     • This version has a problem with the bggen bash script. See Thomas if you are having difficulties.
2. New version of build_scripts: version 1.39: Fixes build of cernlib to find lapack and blas libraries and successfully create the PAW binary.
3. Status of Launches.
   • Alex reports that the reconstruction launch over 2017 data is 100% complete. It took 30 days to complete. There was no tape I/O bottleneck this time. Up to 1000 jobs were running on the farm simultaneously. Extrapolating, the Spring 2018 data should take 90 days to reconstruct if resources are similar.

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1. 1. • Analysis Launch 2017-01 ver19 : ~60 channels, ~80TB
      • storage limited, not CPU
2. Review of minutes from the September 4 meeting (all)
3. Review of the HDGeant4 Meeting from September 11
4. Software Items on the Collaboration Meeting Agenda
5. NERSC Update
6. Computing and Software Review
   • Email from Rolf
   • Charge
   • Agenda
7. Review of recent pull requests:
   • halld_recon (all)
   • halld_sim (all)
8. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)
9. Action Item Review (all)