[Halld-offline] Offline Software Meeting Minutes, June 15, 2018

[Mark Ito]

Folks,

Please find the minutes on the wiki 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_June_15,_2018#Minutes> 
and below.

   -- Mark

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    GlueX Offline Meeting, June 15, 2018, Minutes

Present:

  * *FSU: * Sean Dobbs
  * *JLab: * Alex Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Mark Ito (chair), David
    Lawrence, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann
  * *Regina: * Zisis Papandreou
  * *Yerevan: * Hrach Marukyan

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


      Announcements

 1. *Upgrade of OSG Software on scosg16
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2018-June/003217.html>*.
    The upgrade went without incident on June 6. Thomas noticed that
    condor_q is different now.
 2. *Software Review will be November 27-28*. Rolf Ent announced the
    date at the last Physics Senior Staff Meeting at JLab. No other
    details are known.


      Review of Minutes from the June 1 Meeting

We went over the minutes 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_June_1,_2018#Minutes>. 



        Comparisons of HDGeant4 and HDGeant

Sean reported on studies he is doing with a student at FSU comparing 
various quantities between the HDGeant4 (Geant4) and HDGeant (GEANT3) 
versions of our simulation. They are using the Python HDDM interface. 
They have looked at:

 1. Difference in CDC hits. Overall efficiency is the same. There may be
    some spurious hits in G3
 2. Big differences are seen in TOF hit times and energies.


        Launch Parameter Page

Alex reported that most of the recent launch links are OK now.


      Splitting up sim-recon into sim and recon

Mark went over further thinking and development on the split of 
sim-recon 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Sim-Recon_Split_Update,_June_15,_2018>. 
The wiki page is reproduced here:

  * Process has been automated
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/hd_utilities/tree/master/split_sim-recon>
    and thus documented.
  * Testing: identical hdgeant_smeared.hddm generated from the standard
    b1pi test, 1000 events, from two systems: traditional and split
  * Needed: build_scripts 2.0 to handle the two new repositories.
  * Proposal, with details:
     1. Name new recon repository "gluex-recon"
          o Created by a fork of sim-recon
              + gluex-recon will have full history of sim-recon
              + sim-recon will live on as read-only repository to
                support past builds
     2. Name new sim repository "gluex-sim"
          o Created by git clone and git filter-branch
          o "recon" directories removed along with their history
     3. Deadline for changes to sim directories of sim-recon: June 29
     4. No deadline needed for recon directories of sim-recon
          o Redirecting existing sim-recon repositories to push to the
            new gluex-recon repository needs testing.


      Computing Model

David presented slides 
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N8Ldq9YdqiUMnSnS-2G6f1ncxjsU1AWHZA5Bv15eLI4/edit?usp=sharing> 
using a new "Computing Model" software approach (a script, not a 
spreadsheet), previewing estimates of computing needs going forward. He 
also showed post-dictions of previous years and compared them with 
statistics we have collected. This work is in preparation for the 
readiness review for high-intensity GlueX running, coming up a week from 
Monday. See David's slides for the many details.

There is a large fraction of our past farm used due to individuals users 
that is not captured in the model. Some of this is calibration, and 
therefore of benefit for the collaboration. Although this activity has 
been accounted for in the past, We might have to think more about how to 
capture this load.


      Reproducibility of Reconstruction Results

Beni reported that there are active efforts to run these anomalies to 
ground. He will include Mark in future emails to the group.

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