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<p>Friends,</p>
<p>Please find the minutes by clicking <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_September_4,_2018#Minutes">here</a>.
They are also reproduced below.</p>
<p> -- Mark</p>
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dir="auto">Minutes, GlueX Offline Software Meeting,
September 4, 2018</span></h2>
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<p>Present:
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<li> <b> CMU: </b> Naomi Jarvis</li>
<li> <b> FSU: </b> Sean Dobbs</li>
<li> <b> JLab: </b> Alex Austregesilo, Thomas Britton,
Cristiano Fanelli, Stuart Fegan, Liping Gan, Mark Ito
(chair), Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann</li>
<li> <b> Yerevan: </b> Hrach Marukyan</li>
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<p>There is a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://bluejeans.com/s/gbnwT/">recording of
this meeting</a> on the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab
credentials to access it.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements">Announcements</span></h3>
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<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2018-August/003333.html">HDPM
0.8.0</a> released. This version works with the new
halld_recon/halld_sim combination.</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2018-August/003345.html">New
release of halld_sim: version 3.3.0</a>. Fixes the
BCAL-mcsmear-initialization problem. It also adds
changes from Alex for SDMEs and resurrection of the
old BMS make system.</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/analysis/SubmitReaction.html">Reaction
Filter Line Builder (alpha)</a>. Thomas has written
a web form for composing well-formed reaction lines as
used by the analysis library. This should help with
submission of requests for reactions to be included in
analysis launches.</li>
<li> Status of Launches. Alex: REST production for 2017
data at 92% done. It should finish in a few days. 150
TB of REST data has been produced, 111 TB of the main
REST data, the balance in the coherent skim. The
yields have gone up and there are a few new fields
being written. Our pin quota is 160 TB; we need more.</li>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Review_of_minutes_from_the_August_21_meeting">Review
of minutes from the August 21 meeting</span></h3>
<p>We went over the <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_August_21,_2018#Minutes"
title="GlueX Offline Meeting, August 21, 2018">minutes</a>.
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<ul>
<li> Sean did a test of the <a rel="nofollow"
class="external text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pull/8">Fix
event order dependence</a> pull request. He was
getting crashes on run transitions with a J/ψ skim.</li>
<li> Thomas reported that the <a rel="nofollow"
class="external text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pull/9">Warn
if JANA_CALIB_CONTEXT not set</a> pull request
issues warnings whether the variable is set or not.</li>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Review_of_the_HDGeant4_Meeting_on_August_28">Review
of the HDGeant4 Meeting on August 28</span></h3>
<p>We went over the <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_August_28,_2018#Notes"
title="HDGeant4 Meeting, August 28, 2018">minutes</a>.
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<p>The change to use the measured time-to-distance
relation in the Monte Carlo has been merged. It still
remains to implement this change in HDGeant4.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="NERSC_Update">NERSC
Update</span></h3>
<p>Alex pointed out <a rel="nofollow" class="external
text"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/data_monitoring/launch_analysis/2018_01/launches/offline_monitoring_RunPeriod2018_01_ver17/">a
new web page</a> from David Lawrence that tracks
progress of jobs at NERSC.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Enhanced_script_for_private_builds_II">Enhanced
script for private builds II</span></h3>
<p>Continuing on a theme started at the last meeting, Mark
described two new additions to build_scripts.
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<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/build_scripts/wiki/my_halld_update.py">my_halld_update.py</a>.
This script will update a private build created with
my_halld_build_jlab.</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/build_scripts/wiki/gluex_env_boot_jlab.%28c%29sh">gluex_env_boot_jlab.(c)sh</a>.
These short scrip-lets are meant to be included in
users' .*rc shell initialization files. The define
easy-to-remember commands for setting up and clearing
the shell environment at JLab.</li>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="XML_version_file_management">XML version file
management</span></h3>
<p>Sean has added some scripts to help users discover and
manage the large number of version sets that we have
created over recent years. The scripts can be used to
set-up and to build selected version sets. See <a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/images/3/3f/Sdobbs_Offline_090418.pdf">XML
his slides</a> for a description of the problem space
and solutions. This still a work in progress, but there
is a branch of the gluex_install repository,
"ui_update," for people to try out.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Review_of_recent_pull_requests">Review of recent
pull requests</span></h3>
<p>We went over the lists for both <a rel="nofollow"
class="external text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pulls">halld_recon</a>
and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_sim/pulls">halld_sim</a>.
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<p>Alex noted that <a rel="nofollow" class="external
text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/halld_recon/pull/18">Pull
Request #18</a> for halld_recon fixes a bug in the
analysis library pointed out by Edmund Barriga.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Review_of_recent_discussion_on_the_GlueX_Software_Help_List">Review
of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List</span></h3>
<p>We looked at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/gluex-software">the
list archives</a>.
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<p>Thomas is working with Maria Patsyuk on her <a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gluex-software/EwEmzIu2NsY">problem
with HDGeant4/MCwrapper</a>.
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