[Halld-offline] Software Meeting Minutes, November 10, 2020

[Mark Ito]

Friends,

Please find the minutes here 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_November_10,_2020#Minutes> 
and below.

   -- Mark

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    GlueX Software Meeting, November 10, 2020, Minutes

Present: Alex Austregesilo, Sean Dobbs, Mark Ito (chair), Naomi Jarvis, 
David Lawrence, Simon Taylor, Nilanga Wickramaarachchi, Beni Zihlmann

There is a recording of his meeting 
<https://bluejeans.com/s/E4_DES5XVPW/> on the BlueJeans site. Use your 
JLab credentials to authenticate.


      Announcements

 1. work disk full again
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-October/008350.html>.
    We are still very limited on space. Only 14 TB free (6%). See this
    plot <https://halldweb.jlab.org/disk_management/work_disk_2.png> of
    current usage.
 2. New release of Build Scripts: version 2.3
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-November/008364.html>.
    Sets us up to have builds on more advanced distributions, e.g.,
    CentOS 8.
 3. New git repository: hd_singularity
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-November/008366.html>.
    New repository with scripts for building Singularity containers.
 4. New version set: 4.30.0
    <https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-November/008370.html>
    Update version set.


      Review of Minutes from the Last Software Meeting

We went over minutes from the October 13th meeting 
<https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_October_13,_2020#Minutes>. 



        Scientific Computing Hardware

Mark reported some news from SciComp.

  * The tape library upgrade last week went well. After two libraries
    were converted to one all tapes are loadable into all drives.
  * The Computer Center is very close to allowing jobs from the OSG to
    run on the JLab farm.
  * The work disk space will be supplemented by 2018-era file servers in
    the not-too-distant future.
  * More farm nodes are being purchased, perhaps with the new AMD Milan
    architecture. It should come to about 80 more nodes.


        Future Trends in Nuclear Physics Computing

Mark mentioned that the organizing committee of the Future Trends 
Workshop released a draft report at the Round Table Meeting this 
morning. Comments on the draft are welcome. Find it here 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HT0dQJwZkUGaxGS0bUhZgkz0l2G5QR-4Dm08-hr8DJc/edit#heading=h.w8zptkboez9w>. 



        Unit Testing

Mark pointed out the package that Dmitry Romanov is using for unit test 
for CCDB. It is called Catch2 <https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2>.


      Review of recent issues and pull requests

  * halld_recon issue #462
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/issues/462> *TOF dE/dx
    written as all zeros in monitoring hists and ROOT trees since
    2020-07-10*. In response to Andrew Schick's nice problem report,
    Beni has submitted a fix. The problem was the result of the
    introduction of dEdx1 and dEdx2 in addition to dEdx. dEdx got lost
    on the way to REST.
      o Sean pointed out that the automatic builds, triggered by pull
        requests, have stopped working due to the input raw data file
        having been deleted from the work disk. [Added in press: Mark
        looked and discovered that the clean up of the pull request test
        area on the work disk was targeting the raw data file. That has
        been fixed now.]
  * halld_recon issue #464
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/issues/464> *Issue with
    code for chi square comparison of two trees*. Nilanga submitted this
    issue just before the meeting. Alex is looking at it. He sees a bug
    but it is not obvious why Nilanga sees crashes. Nilanga reported
    that the crash does not occur for all files.
  * halld_sim issue #169
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_sim/issues/169> *Amplitude
    for MC generation using a histogram in a ROOT file* Nilanga
    submitted a request for a general method for specifying an amplitude
    using a histogram and generating events accordingly. Justin Stevens
    is working on this.
  * halld_sim issue #168
    <https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_sim/issues/168> *resonance
    seeds in gen_amp causing inefficiency*. Matt Shepherd identified a
    feature in gen_amp that concentrates events around 1 GeV when no
    resonances are specified. This is a problem when higher masses are
    desired. Alex reported that Rebecca Barsotti is working on a solution.


      Action Items

Copied from the last meeting:

 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 folks about their problematic cache files. (Alex)
 6. Finish CentOS 8 compatibility project. (Mark)

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