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<p>Friends,</p>
<p>Please find the minutes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_December_8,_2020#Minutes">here</a>
and below.</p>
<p> -- Mark</p>
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<h2 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span
dir="auto">GlueX Software Meeting, December 8, 2020, </span><span
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<p>Present: Alex Austregesilo, Nathan Brei, Thomas
Britton, Sean Dobbs, Mark Ito (chair), Igal Jaegle,
Naomi Jarvis, David Lawrence, Simon Taylor, Nilanga
Wickramaarachchi, Beni Zihlmann
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<p>There is a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://bluejeans.com/s/dager7FMOqJ/">recording
of this meeting</a>. Log into the <a rel="nofollow"
class="external text"
href="https://jlab.bluejeans.com">BlueJeans site</a>
first to gain access (use your JLab credentials).
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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/2020-December/008394.html">New
Required RPMs</a>. 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.</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2020-December/008396.html">New
work disk partition: /work/halld3</a>. %0 TB of new
work disk has arrived.</li>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Review_of_Minutes_from_the_Last_Software_Meeting">Review
of Minutes from the Last Software Meeting</span></h3>
<p>We went over the <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Software_Meeting,_November_24,_2020#Minutes"
title="GlueX Software Meeting, November 24, 2020">minutes
from November 24</a>. Naomi called our attention to a
site, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://dillinger.io/">Dillinger</a>, that will
render <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown">Markdown</a>,
in the same spirit as Overleaf renders LaTeX.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Minutes_from_the_Last_HDGeant4_Meeting">Minutes
from the Last HDGeant4 Meeting</span></h3>
<p>We reviewed the <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_December_1,_2020#Minutes"
title="HDGeant4 Meeting, December 1, 2020">minutes
from December 1</a> without significant comment.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Report_from_the_December_3rd_SciComp_Meeting">Report
from the December 3rd SciComp Meeting</span></h3>
<p>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 <a rel="nofollow"
class="external text"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-public/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=4810">his
slides</a> for the details.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Proposal_on_Software_Versions_Beyond_CentOS_7">Proposal
on Software Versions Beyond CentOS 7</span></h3>
<p>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 <a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-public/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=4811">his
slides</a> for the details.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2021_Data_Flow_Planning">2021
Data Flow Planning</span></h3>
<p>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 <a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/doc-private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=4806">his
slides</a> for the details.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="FADC_125_Event_Synchronization">FADC 125 Event
Synchronization</span></h3>
<p>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: <a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3858620">Runs
72932-72937 hits from roc 25 slot 6 are missing from
tracks</a>. Naomi will contact David Abbott about the
problem and what is to be done to fix it.
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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 went over the <a rel="nofollow" class="external
text"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gluex-software">Help
List</a>. Thomas will take another look at <a
rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://groups.google.com/g/gluex-software/c/kmb9M_BxxJY">Mark's
issue with failures of bggen jobs</a>.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Action_Items">Action
Items</span></h3>
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<li> Ask the Computer Center about staging the start of
jobs in time. (Mark)</li>
<li> Make sure that the automatic tests of HDGeant4 pull
requests have been fully implemented. (Mark, Sean)</li>
<li> Finish conversion of halld_recon to use JANA2.
(Nathan)</li>
<li> Ping Dmitry on CCDB Issue #68. (Mark)</li>
<li> Remind Ashley about her problematic cache files.
(Mark)</li>
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