GlueX Offline Software Meeting, October 2, 2018

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GlueX Offline Software Meeting
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
2:00 pm EDT
JLab: CEBAF Center A110
BlueJeans: 968 592 007

Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. Review of minutes from the September 18 meeting (all)
  3. Review of recent pull requests:
  4. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)
  5. Meeting Time (all)
  6. Action Item Review (all)

Communication Information

Remote Connection

Slides

Talks can be deposited in the directory /group/halld/www/halldweb/html/talks/2018 on the JLab CUE. This directory is accessible from the web at https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2018/ .

Minutes

Present:

  • FSU: Sean Dobbs
  • IU: Ahmed Foda
  • JLab: Alex Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Stuart Fegan, Mark Ito (chair), Naomi Jarvis, David Lawrence, Beni Zihlmann

There is a recording of this meeting on the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab credentials to access it.

Announcements

Work Packages

We went over the Work Packages presented at last week's collaboration meeting in Sean's Reorganization of Working Groups Discussion talk. There was a lot of discussion. Some random notes:

  • Produce a version of HDGeant4 which works as a drop-in replacement for HDGeant. The HDGeant4 item already has a mechanism in place to prosecute the work.
  • Update and generalize tree_to_amptools. This item originally came from Alex.
  • Create user-friendly set of amplitude analysis scripts. Alex has started work on this one.
  • Implement converter from generic output format (HepMC?) into HDDM. This one originated from Marie Boer. She was trying to convert output from her event generator into a from that could be used by HDGeant.
  • Refactor gen_amp amplitude definitions to provide general common amplitude definitions for 1 and 2 meson production. There was some doubt about whether this is practical to implement.
  • Tune generic MC to better describe data. This includes addressing the invariant mass distribution generated by bggen for several of the possible final states.
  • We noted that many of the items are related to streamlining use of AmpTools.
    • Alex will mention these at the Amplitude Analysis meeting.
  • Beni suggested that we might need a code review of the analysis library. There are rumors of bugs living there.
  • Mark pointed out that the reconstruction code could stand a review as well.
  • Thomas has started working with Simon on tracking.
  • Sean suggested someone be in charge of revising the list. He and Mark volunteered.
  • Alex pointed out that students will solve many of these problems, but the solutions will disappear after they move on. Mark remarked that those solutions are often not in a form that can be used as a general tool.
  • Thomas thought that the work should be organized in small groups, each with a convener.
  • Beni thought that group leaders need to push these issues, otherwise it will be difficult to get people to work on them.

Upcoming Hall B Farm Usage

David has assured Hall B that we will not be using the JLab batch farm heavily during the next few weeks and they should be able to get a lot of jobs through during this period.

Review of minutes from the September 18 meeting

We went over the minutes from two weeks ago.

Launches

Alex reported.

  • The 60-channel analysis launch on Spring 2017 is complete.
  • A similar launch on the 2016 Golden Period is almost done.
  • Alex is collecting a new set of reactions another analysis launch to start soon. He will go back to the standard scheme of one input rest file per job.
  • He is thinking of doing a launch every two weeks or so, each with a newly selected list of reactions.
  • Thomas has added the output tree name to the database for easy reference by users.

NERSC

  • David is working on the documentation for a new allocation request to NERSC.
  • Sean mentioned that the calibrations for another monitoring launch on Spring 2018 data are ready.

Computing Review

Curtis, David, and Mark will meet Thursday to discuss plans for the upcoming review.

Hardware-Needs Meeting with SciComp

There will be meeting with Chip Watson on Thursday at 4:00 pm to discuss future hardware needs for GlueX. Interested parties should contact David for the details.

New Version of MCwrapper

Thomas reported that this will be out soon. It incorporates fully automatic job submission, i. e., web requests will initiate a full submission of jobs to the OSG.

Review of recent pull requests

No significant comments.

Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List

On the "events lost due to vertex fit for Lambda" thread, Sean will have a look. He thinks that there may be a bug in the combo maker.

Meeting Time

Mark proposed moving the meeting time from 2 pm to 3 pm (similarly for the HDGeant4 meeting) to avoid the monthly conflict with the Computing Round Table. No objections were raised. Look for the change to your calendar.