[Halld-offline] Minutes of the GlueX Offline Meeting, June 29, 2010

[Mark M. Ito]

Find the minutes of the June 29 Offline meeting at 
http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting%2C_June_29%2C_2010 
and reproduced below.

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GlueX Offline Meeting, June 29, 2010
Minutes

    Present:
      * IU: Dan Bennett, Ryan Mitchell;, Matt Shepherd
      * JLab: Mark Ito (chair), David Lawrence, Lubomir Pentchev, Yi Qiang,
        Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Elliott Wolin, Beni Zihlmann


Announcements

     1. Action Item archive. Sascha created a [27]wiki page that captures
        the already completed action items.
     2. JANA 0.6.2. David has release a new version of JANA. See [28]his
        announcement for details.
     3. Calibration and Conditions Database specification. David has put a
        first draft on the DocDB. He and Mark will review it and release a
        draft to the collaboration.
     4. Grid Client Tools Meeting. Mark reported in a meeting held to
        discuss the installation of OSG grid client tools at JLab. See
        [29]his notes for details.
     5. BCAL Software Update. Dan showed [30]a slide describing recent work
        on BCAL hit generation. This involved a structural reworking,
        moving the code from the reconstruction library to the smearing
        program.
     6. CHEP abstracts accepted. David announced that all three of the
        abstracts he submitted to the Computing in High Energy Physics
        conference have been accepted for oral presentations. He will talk
        on an overview of GlueX software, ROOTSpy, and GlueX event
        reconstruction.


Review of minutes from the last meeting

    We reviewed [32]the minutes from last time.
      * Software Workshop. David reported that the initial organizational
        meeting was held. A proposal to the JSA Initiative committee has
        been written up. The workshop will

    be held between the semesters, sometime in December or January.
      * Test of JANA on a 48-core machine. David reported that work
        continues. There seems to be two modes of behavior with the Kalman
        filter code, one where scaling is observed and the other where only
        about 30% of the capacity is utilized.

      * Standard math library, matrices, vectors, etc. Elliott reported
        that Hall B is putting together a standard math library for Java.


MantisBT

    Elliott announced that the [34]issue tracking software is ready to go
    into production. JLab folks have been using it recently to test its
    behavior and provide feedback on how to configure the software. Elliott
    has imported all of the outstanding action items from the wiki page as
    issues in the new system. He will send out an announcement on how to
    register and access the system.

Action Item Review

    We used Mantis to view recently resolved items and items still
    outstanding.

    Retrieved from
    
"http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting%2C_June_29%2C_2010"

References

   27. 
http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/wiki/index.php/Action_Items_Archive
   28. 
https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2010-June/000314.html
   29. 
http://markito3.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/notes-on-grid-client-tools-meeting/
   30. 
http://argus.phys.uregina.ca/gluex/DocDB/0015/001552/001/BCAL_Software_progress_062910.pdf
   32. 
http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting%2C_June_15%2C_2010#Minutes
   34. https://halldnew.jlab.org/mantisbt/