[Halld-offline] Software Meeting Minutes, December 8, 2020

[Mark Ito]

Friends,

Please find the minutes here 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_December_8,_2020#Minutes> 
and below.

   -- Mark

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    GlueX Software Meeting, December 8, 2020, Minutes

Present: Alex Austregesilo, Nathan Brei, Thomas Britton, Sean Dobbs, 
Mark Ito (chair), Igal Jaegle, Naomi Jarvis, David Lawrence, Simon 
Taylor, Nilanga Wickramaarachchi, Beni Zihlmann

There is a recording of this meeting 
<https://bluejeans.com/s/dager7FMOqJ/>. Log into the BlueJeans site 
<https://jlab.bluejeans.com> first to gain access (use your JLab 
credentials).


      Announcements

 1. New Required RPMs
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-December/008394.html>.
    The python2-future and libtirpc-devel RPM's are now required to
    build the master branches of hdds, halld_recon, and halld_sim, and
    hdgeant4.
 2. New work disk partition: /work/halld3
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-December/008396.html>. %0
    TB of new work disk has arrived.


      Review of Minutes from the Last Software Meeting

We went over the minutes from November 24 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_November_24,_2020#Minutes>. 
Naomi called our attention to a site, Dillinger <https://dillinger.io/>, 
that will render Markdown <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown>, in 
the same spirit as Overleaf renders LaTeX.


      Minutes from the Last HDGeant4 Meeting

We reviewed the minutes from December 1 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_December_1,_2020#Minutes> 
without significant comment.


      Report from the December 3rd SciComp Meeting

Mark reported on the meeting. Topics include a new SciComp Web Portal, 
OSG jobs running at JLab, and more work disk for the Halls. See his 
slides 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-public/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=4810> for 
the details.


      Proposal on Software Versions Beyond CentOS 7

Mark made a proposal on how we can go forward with versions of GCC 
non-native to CentOS 7. This would allow us to take advantage of new 
language features and upgrade support packages such as ROOT and Geant4. 
See his slides 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-public/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=4811> for 
the details.


      2021 Data Flow Planning

Sean brought up issues having to do with skims for the upcoming data 
runs: (a) skims during PrimEx running and (b) the size of TOF 
calibration skims. See his slides 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=4806> 
for the details.


      FADC 125 Event Synchronization

Beni raised an issue where hits in the CDC have a mis-match between 
eventnum and itrigger. Naomi posted the original problem report in the 
CDC e-log: Runs 72932-72937 hits from roc 25 slot 6 are missing from 
tracks <https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3858620>. Naomi will contact 
David Abbott about the problem and what is to be done to fix it.


      Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List

We went over the Help List 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gluex-software>. Thomas will 
take another look at Mark's issue with failures of bggen jobs 
<https://groups.google.com/g/gluex-software/c/kmb9M_BxxJY>.


      Action Items

 1. Ask the Computer Center about staging the start of jobs in time. (Mark)
 2. Make sure that the automatic tests of HDGeant4 pull requests have
    been fully implemented. (Mark, Sean)
 3. Finish conversion of halld_recon to use JANA2. (Nathan)
 4. Ping Dmitry on CCDB Issue #68. (Mark)
 5. Remind Ashley about her problematic cache files. (Mark)

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