[Halld-offline] Offline Software Meeting Minutes, April 19, 2017

[Mark Ito]

Folks,

Please find the minutes below and at 
https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_April_19,_2017#Minutes 
.

   -- Mark

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    GlueX Offline Meeting, April 19, 2017, Minutes

Present:

  * *CMU*: Naomi Jarvis, Mike Staib
  * *FIU*: Mahmoud Kamel
  * *Glasgow*: Peter Pauli
  * *JLab*: Alex Austregesilo, Amber Boehnlein, Thomas Britton, Eugene
    Chudakov, Hovanes Egiyan, Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito (chair), David
    Lawrence, Paul Mattione, Dmitry Romanov, Sascha Somov, Nathan
    Sparks, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
  * *NU*: Sean Dobbs
  * *Yerevan*: Hrach Marukyan

There is a recording of this meeting <https://bluejeans.com/s/UWRmX/> on 
the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab credential to access it.


      Announcements

 1. HDPM 0.6.1 released
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-April/002725.html>
    Nathan: bug fixes, hd_utilities standard part of release now.
 2. Run GlueX software under Windows
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-April/002706.html>
    Dmitry: seems to work just fine.
 3. New policy for Monte Carlo calibrations
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-April/002733.html>
    Sean: we need a way to separate calibrations meant for HDGeant from
    those meant for HDGeant4.


      Review of minutes from the last meeting

We look at the minutes from the meeting on March 22 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_March_22,_2017#Minutes>. 


  * Sean has been using the new features of SWIF reported last time.
    They seem to work.
  * The change that David proposed to plugin linking is now on the
    master branch.
  * The meeting on contribution of university resources to the OSG
    <https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_and_the_OSG,_Meeting_on_Resource_Contribution,_March_31,_2017>
    was held on March 31. The next steps have been identified.
  * HDDS geometry is now available from the CCDB by setting the
    appropriate value of JANA_GEOMETRY_URL in recent builds. Simon is
    working on bring the geometry up-to-date for the Spring 2017 data
    taking.


      Collaboration Meeting Planning

We discussed the agenda for the offline software section of the 
Collaboration Meeting 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX-Collaboration-May-2017> 
coming up May 15-17. The current thinking goes like this:

  * 9:00 Session IIb (100) --- Analysis/Offline/Calibration -
    (Organizer: Sean Dobbs) - Chair: Nathan Sparks
      o 9:00 (20) --- Offline Software Status --- Mark Ito
      o 9:20 (20) --- Calibration Updates --- Sean Dobbs
      o 9:40 (20) --- Data Processing Update --- Alex Austregesilo
      o 10:00 (10) --- SWIF Status --- Chris Larrieu
      o 10:10 (20) --- GlueX/OSG Status --- Richard Jones
      o 10:30 (20) --- Hdgeant4 tuning ---


      Comparing HDGeant with HDGeant4

Sean summarized the status of recent comparisons of simulation from 
HDGeant versus those from HDGeant4. He has made a log book entry 
<https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3470274> with links to plots comparing 
results from the monitoring histograms. He has also opened an issue on 
GitHub <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/10> on the topic 
of FCAL timing. Elton, Simon, and David are also making comparisons for 
charged tracks, especially those in the forward direction. Elton posted 
a message on this 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gluex-software/9Bs26aK5Ymg> 
on the Software Help list.


      MCwrapper

Thomas gave a live demo of feature of this that provides a front-end to 
the complete simulation and reconstruction chain. See his slides 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/DocDB/0032/003269/001/MCwrapper.pdf> for the 
details and view his demo in the recording starting at 33:10. There is 
also documentation on the GitHub wiki 
<https://github.com/JeffersonLab/hd_utilities/wiki/MCwrapper> for the 
hd_utilities repository.


      Review of recent pull requests

David brought attention to his pull request 
<https://github.com/JeffersonLab/sim-recon/pull/781> that should now 
allow us to build sim-recon without a build of the EVIO library.

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