GlueX Software Meeting, December 19, 2022

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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, December 19, 2022
11:00 am EST
F326/327

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Agenda

  1. Announcements
    • New release: version_5.9.0.xml with new versions of amptools, gluex_root_analysis, halld_recon, halld_sim and hd_utilities
    • New recon-compatible version sets
    • NERSC 2023 Allocation: 85kh awarded, one third of request but significant speed up on Perlmutter
  2. Report from December SciOps/ENP meeting (slides)
    • MFA for scientific computing (similar to hallgw) will start in March 23
    • December 20 maintenance day: default memory request for gpu partitions reduced to 512MB
    • farm13 retired, farm23 will be introduced soon
    • Memory efficiency for farm jobs
  3. Action Item Review (all)
    • Collect information about container use cases, provide examples, promote usage (Peter): [1][2]
    • Patch old halld_recon versions for RHEL8 (low priority)
  4. BMS_OSNAME update (Mark)
  5. Status of software upgrade projects:
    • JANA2 (Nathan)
    • RHEL8:
      • danarest issue #635 was caused by inconsistent hddm file
      • Dselector issue #156 unsolved
  6. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
    1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
    2. halld_sim: Issues, PRs
    3. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs
    4. MCwrapper: Issues, PRs
    5. gluex_root_analysis: Issues, PRs
  7. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Minutes

Participants: A. Austregesilo, P. Hurck, M. Ito, S. Dobbs, N. Brei, I. Jaegle

Discussion Points:

  1. Peter introduced two ways to run gluex software in a container: gxrun and gxshell
  2. Proposal: Establish Centos7.9 container for collaboration-wide usage. Could be introduced to the collaboration in Feb collaboration meeting.
  3. Upgrade to newer compiler: necessary for geant4, can be done in Centos7.9 or together with upgrade to RHEL8/Rocky8
  4. Proposal: Upgrade to JANA2 during long shutdown after March 23

Action Items:

  1. Provide Rocky8 container with gxun/gxshell
  2. Discuss strategy for upgrade of online machines with computing center, possibly install singularity
  3. Investigate DSelector problem on RHEL8/Rocky8

Action Items