[Halld-offline] Offline Software Meeting Minutes, December 10, 2014

[Mark M. Ito]

Folks,

Find the minutes below and at

https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_December_10,_2014#Minutes

   -- Mark
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GlueX Offline Meeting, December 10, 2014
Minutes
Present:

  * *CMU*: Paul Mattione, Curtis Meyer
  * *FIU*: Eric Pooser
  * *FSU*: Aristeidis Tsaris
  * *JLab*: Alex Barnes, Mark Dalton, Mark Ito (chair), Manuel Lara,
    Will McGinley, Kei Moriya, Nathan Sparks, Mike Staib, Simon Taylor,
    Beni Zihlmann
  * *IU*: Matt Shepherd
  * *MIT*: Justin Stevens
  * *NU*: Sean Dobbs


Announcements

 1. *Work Disk Usage Report* After we ran short of work disk space a
    month or two ago, Mark I. started work on a web page
    <https://halldweb1.jlab.org/diskManagement/workDisk.html> to report
    on large files, large directories, and users with large disk usage.
    It is now updated nightly. Reports on other disk systems are planned.
 2. *GlueX Project Accounts for JLab Farm* Mark I. has asked the
    Computer Center to set up three new accounts with elevated priority
    on the farm for GlueX projects. The usernames are gxproj1, gxproj2,
    and gxproj3. The solves the problem we have been having where
    multiple projects running from the "gluex" account were getting in
    each others way (long queue waits for the second one in). Kei is
    running the offline monitoring jobs from gxproj1 right now.
 3. *Discontinue SeeVogh Use* Mark I. told the Computer Center that
    GlueX is not interested in renewing the license.
 4. *Software Review* Rolf Ent is organizing the next Software Review
    for February 10 and 11. Curtis commented that we have a lot of
    things to show now that we are analyzing real data from the current
    commissioning run.


track, itrack, and the Truth

Justin told us that the changes 
<https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2014-October/001847.html> 
that Richard introduced to give sensible truth information for showers 
in the BCAL are working well.

Data Challenge 3

We decided on a schedule for Data Challenge 3.

 1. Before Holiday Shutdown: start generating simulated raw data and
    stage it on the Tape Library. Try to get a lot of this done over the
    shutdown.
 2. After Holiday Shutdown: start setting up the reconstruction jobs to
    work on the data.


We discussed trying to use real data for this challenge now that we have 
some. We decided against it; the real data presents multiple challenges 
of its own that are better dealt with in a different context.
We reviewed the goals:

 1. Handle data from the tape library
 2. Multi-core reconstruction
 3. Use EVIO-formatted data


Commissioning Simulations

Sean noted that the geometry in the Hall has changed again recently. We 
need to make the updates and re-run simulations with the new conditions. 
Changes include more shielding around the beamline and relocation of the 
active target downstream of GlueX.

Offline Data Monitoring

Paul took us through a tour of the offline monitoring plots 
<https://halldweb1.jlab.org/cgi-bin/data_monitoring/monitoring/runBrowser.py> 
showing new histograms, anomalies, and other points of interest.
Mark I. thought that a similar presentation would be nice at the morning 
run coordination meeting. That may happen.

Run and Data Conditions

Sean presented some slides 
<https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/images/c/c0/OfflineMtg_20141209.pdf> on 
the story behind the recently released run conditions web page 
<https://halldweb1.jlab.org/cgi-bin/data_monitoring/run_conditions.pl>. 
He described the origin of the various fields and also listed other 
meta-data (such as software versions) used in the offline monitoring jobs.
Some suggestions for improvements were offered. In that context, Justin 
asked about the Run Conditions Database that Dmitry Romanov was working 
on. We have heard that it contains similar information, but no one at 
the meeting has seen it. Mark reported that he talked to Dmitry about 
this recently and agreed to get a version deployed somewhere so that 
people can have a look so we can decide where to put future effort.

Version Management System

Mark presented slides 
<http://argus.phys.uregina.ca/cgi-bin/private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=2617> 
on a system for specifying a compatible set of versions of the various 
software packages we use for GlueX data. An XML file can be used both to 
direct a build of the software and to generate the environment to use 
such a build. The system has been tested (but not exhaustively) and is 
already used by the gluex_install scripts.

Action Items

 1. Update the Hall geometry. (Simon)
 2. Run more commissioning simulation (Sean, Mark I.)
 3. Deploy Dmitry's run conditions database so people can have a look.
    (Mark I.)
 4. Finish roll-out of the version management system. (Mark I.)

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-- 
Mark M. Ito, Jefferson Lab, marki at jlab.org, (757)269-5295

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