[Halld-offline] Software Meeting Minutes, January 22, 2019

Mark Ito marki at jlab.org
Wed Jan 23 14:22:22 EST 2019 

Folks,

Please find the minutes by clicking here 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_January_22,_2019#Minutes> 
or reading below.

   -- Mark

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    GlueX Software Meeting Minutes, January 22, 2019

Present:

  * *CMU: * Naomi Jarvis
  * *FIU: * Mahmoud Kamel
  * *JLab: * Alexander Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Mark Dalton, Sean
    Dobbs, Ashley Ernst, Stuart Fegan, Mark Ito (chair), David Lawrence,
    Dmitry Romanov, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann

There is a recording of this meeting <https://bluejeans.com/s/SIH0i/> on 
the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab credentials to access it.


      Announcements

 1. *gluex_install 2.9
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2019-January/003477.html>.*
    Mark went over the new features in the latest
    build-it-all-from-scratch package.
 2. *Several new packages releases, new version set file:
    version_4.0.0.xml
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2019-January/003486.html>.*
    Mark reviewed the release of new DIRC-enabled software packages.


      Review of minutes from the January 8 meeting

We went over the minutes 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_January_8,_2019#Minutes>. 


  * Thomas reports that the *revamped MCwrapper* is getting a lot of
    use. A new feature has been introduced: old projects can be copied
    as a starting point for composing new projects.
  * David has revived an old mechanism for updating a database with
    *event range information* for raw data files. These data are now
    being collected as new data comes in. The strategy for back-filling
    information from old runs is being planned.
  * Justin Stevens's *merging of the DIRC branches* onto the master
    branch seems to have gone well.
  * *Debug and optimized builds* of halld_recon and halld_sim have been
    deployed in the build of the latest version set at JLab.


      Report from the January 15 HDGeant4 Meeting

We went over these minutes 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_January_15,_2019#Minutes> 
as well.

  * All known issues with HDGeant4 have been resolved. There remains a
    known problem with FDC hit population at the wire-based stage of
    tracking, but that does not seem to be associated with the
    simulation code.
  * Thomas is going to re-do the studies that led to the first batch of
    issues with the new code base. We will see how we do this time.


      HDDS Version Management

Sean raised several questions about which versions of the geometry we 
should be using in various contexts. There was some discussion of this 
over the weekend: Issue #49 of HDDS: TOF plexiglass insert compatibility 
with DIRC? <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/hdds/issues/49>.

The Lucite shielding for the TOF has been merged onto the master branch, 
thus the master branch contains both the DIRC and the shielding. The 
shielding geometry has not been tested in a real simulation; that needs 
to be done. In the mean time we would like to use a version of the 
geometry that excludes the shielding. That exists in the 4.0.0 tag of 
HDDS. Sean will take care of putting this version into the CCDB for the 
upcoming runs with the DIRC even though the shielding is physically 
there. When the shielding geometry has been tested, it can be added to 
the CCDB.

There is still the question of how to include the shielding for pre-DIRC 
runs (those already taken). Mark suggested we create a branch off of the 
tag 3.13.0, the last tag before addition of the DIRC, and add the 
shielding there and tag it. That will allow use of hdgeant[3] with this 
geometry and provide a source for a file to be added to CCDB where 
appropriate.

Ashley will work with Mark to create the branch. Sean will take care of 
the additions to the CCDB.


      Task Review

We reviewed the software work packages 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/2018_Work_Packages#Software_Infrastructure>. 
There are two relevant categories: Analysis Software and Software 
Infrastructure. Mark will summarize status of Software Infrastructure at 
tomorrow's Analysis Meeting.


      PrimEx Reconstruction and CERNLIB/Fortran

David raised the issue of new reconstruction code that PrimEx-η 
collaborators would like to add. The set of routines are in Fortran and 
rely on CERNLIB. We need to provide a path for making this addition 
quickly since the PrimEx run is upon us. However there is a problem with 
introducing CERNLIB-dependent code into halld_recon; we have just spent 
a ton of effort to eliminate dependence of halld_sim on CERNLIB by 
developing HDGeant4. CERNLIB is no longer supported and we would not 
like to have our code dependent on it going forward.

Mark suggested that the code be added to a branch of halld_recon, 
keeping the master branch free of CERNLIB dependence. There is an effort 
to re-write the relevant code in C or C++ making it compatible with the 
rest of our code base. At that point, the routines can be merged onto 
master.


      NERSC Running

David reported that the start of the reconstruction pass at NERSC on 
Spring 2018 data is waiting for the final pieces of calibration to be 
put into place.

He also mentioned that it is not necessary that the entire run be run at 
NERSC. Some of the running could be done at JLab if cycles are available.


      Review of recent issues and pull requests

We reviewed the following pages:

  * halld_recon
      o Issues
        <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue>
      o pull requests
        <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pulls?q=is%3Apr>
  * halld_sim
      o Issues
        <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_sim/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue>
      o pull requests
        <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_sim/pulls?q=is%3Apr>

The most notable item was the fix to halld_sim to turn on energy 
deposition for hadrons in the FCAL. Due to an indexing error, only 
electromagnetic particles were being registered. See halld_sim pull 
request #34 <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_sim/pull/34> for a 
bit more detail.


      Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List

We looked at the list of topics 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gluex-software> without 
significant comment.


      Manpower Note

Dmitry mentioned that he has completed a chunk of EIC work and he may 
have more cycles these days for work on CCDB, RCDB, and other Hall-D 
related topics.

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