GlueX Software Meeting, April 21, 2025

GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, April 21, 2025
11:00 am EDT
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Agenda

1. Announcements
   • Duplicated files will be deleted in ~30 days ,check yours with jcache duplicatedFileInfo halld (-l)
   • GlueX Tutorial 2025 : May 12
   • volatile full, old files will be deleted soon
2. Report from the monthly meeting with Scientific Computing Ops: slides
   • A/B/C/D fairshare 10/40/10/40 % -> 30/30/10/30 %
3. Review of minutes and action items
4. Software status:
   • Pull_request test currently running on halld-cron-2024 (RHEL9), but connection from halldweb refused (Wesley)
5. Container status
6. GitLab
7. MCWrapper status:
   • Project to switch containers in-flight: #134
8. RUCIO update (Anil)
9. Update on new halld_recon libraries:
   • Helicity: decoding fixed (PR#947), monitoring proposed
   • TRD: steady progress PR#939,PR#944,PR#946 (Lauren, Sean)
   • ECAL: several updates PR#932, PR#934 (Simon)
10. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
    • JANA2 (Raiqa)
      • Transition to JANA2 wiki page
      • Locking, CCDB access Issue #890 fixed by jana2.4.1, optimal thread counts under study
    • RCDB (Dmitry)
      • Temporary website: rcdb.pythonanywhere.com/runs/ causes problems on halddb-ext
      • halldwebdev.jlab.org/rcdb operational, but only on-site
      • A (desperate) sanity saving workaround for no-gui days
    • ROOT
      • version 6.32.08 in counting house, compiled with c++20
      • minor changes needed for c++20 in hdds, amptools
      • Upgrade with switch of default compiler standard in next release? C++17 as RHEL9 default
11. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
    1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
       • Problems with jana:nskip Issue #935
    2. halld_sim: Issues, PRs
    3. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs
    4. MCwrapper: Issues, PRs
    5. gluex_root_analysis: Issues, PRs
12. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)
13. Issue with https://www.gluex.org web page

Action Items

1. Documentation
   • Improve documentation on singularity containers
2. Check if native build works for container on Alma9, eventually get rid of -cntr builds
3. Software Upgrades
   • halld_recon:
     • $HALLD_RECON_HOME/src/BMS is deprecated, remove from the repo?
     • Remove dependency on histogram tools [1] (Sean, partly done)
     • #842: Locking in JANA, CDC plugins fixed
     • Make large 2D histograms in monitoring_hists optional: request for OSG production
   • gluex_MCWrapper:
     • MCWrapper needs possibility to switch between operating systems / containers during workflow: #134 created
   • RCDB (Dmitry):
     • Fix bug in upgrade command (Sean, Dmitry)
     • Move new webpage to halldweb (Dmitry, Sherman)
4. Broken tape
   • IBM was not able to recover, data lost
   • 14839 files (1357 REST) from 2017-01 ver04, about 5%
   • Full list, reprocess?