[Halld-offline] Offline Software Meeting Minutes, August 21, 2018

[Mark Ito]

Friends,

Please find the minutes below and by clicking here.

   --  Mark

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  Minutes, GlueX Offline Meeting, August 21, 2018

Present:

  * *CMU: * Naomi Jarvis
  * *JLab: * Alex Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Mark Ito (chair), David
    Lawrence, Sandy Philpott, Justin Stevens, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
  * *MIT: * Cris Fanelli

There is a recording of this meeting <https://bluejeans.com/s/XCiD5/> on 
the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab credentials to access it.


      Announcements

 1. *New version set: version_recon-2017_01-ver03_1_jlab.xml
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2018-August/003317.html>.*
    Has the latest fix to forward tracking in HDGeant[3].
 2. *HDGeant4 1.9.0 released
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2018-August/003324.html>.*
    Has the latest fix to forward tracking in HDGeant4.
 3. Status of Recon Launch
      * Alex reports that all of 2016 is done and 2017 is 45% done.
      * The farm is at half strength because of work to replace a bad
        communication board a PDU (power distribution unit[?])


      Review of minutes from the August 7 meeting

We looked at the minutes 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_August_7,_2018#Minutes>. 
Mark reported that a procedure for recovering tagged versions of 
sim-recon and deploying them in the split repositories has been developed.


      Review of Notes from the HDGeant4 Meeting on August 14

We went over the notes 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_August_14,_2018#Notes>. 
Thomas reviewed the major points.


      NERSC Update

David reported that the next project at NERSC, a monitoring run on the 
Spring 2018 data got underway today. We are interested in how many jobs 
we can get running simultaneously. He will be running 10 files per run 
this time. Merging of the results will be done after the files are 
brought back to the lab. This is version 17 in the line of monitoring 
launches.


      Enhanced script for private builds: my_halld_build_jlab

Mark described a new version of the script to build private versions of 
Hall D software. The script formerly known as my_sim-recon_jlab.sh is 
now my_halld_build_jlab. There are new user options, among them the 
ability to build only a selected set of packages. See the documentation 
on the build_scripts wiki 
<https://github.com/JeffersonLab/build_scripts/wiki/my_halld_build_jlab> 
for details and examples.


      Review of recent pull requests

We went over the list 
<https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pulls?q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Apr>.

  * Fix event order dependence #8
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pull/8>. "Fixes the
    issue Lubomir observed in his J/Psi analysis where values depended
    on the order in which individual event files were given on the
    command line." Lubomir Pentchev should test this one.
  * Warn if JANA_CALIB_CONTEXT not set #9
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pull/9>. "This was
    requested by Thomas since you will almost always want to have this
    set when processing MC data."


      Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List

We went over the list 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/gluex-software>. Mark has 
turned the item titled "Where to find version set files? What are 
directory tags?" into two Offline FAQs 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_FAQ#Where_do_I_find_version_set_files.3F>. 


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