GlueX Software Meeting, January 13, 2025

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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, January 13, 2025
11:00 am EDT
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Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. Review of minutes and action items
  3. Software status:
    • version_5.22.0.xml with geant4 10.07.p04
    • Was not officially released because it failed the b1pi test, bug in halld_recon concerning simulation
    • version_5.22.1.xml fixes this, will become default today
  4. Container status
  5. GitLab:
    • GlueX Container CI/CD : hangs when including apptainer package
    • Roles (Developer, Maintainer, Owner) can only be changed by Owner (me), clarification request pending
  6. MCWrapper status:
    • Project to switch containers in-flight: #134
    • Some projects use RCDB1, static sqlite file: /group/halld/www/halldweb/html/dist/rcdb_v1.sqlite
  7. RUCIO:
  8. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
    • JANA2 (Raiqa)
      • Transition to JANA2 wiki page
      • Change to hddm needed for thread safety: [1]
      • halld_recon tag 4.52.1_jana2, exactly equivalent 4.52.1
      • b1pi test with version_5.22.2_jana2.xml version_5.22.2_j2mj1.xml: link
      • All monitoring plugins are giving similar results
      • Strange differences in ComboConstruction when running interactively
      • Current status (Raiqa)
    • RCDB (Dmitry)
      • Upgraded database: gluondb.jlab.org/rcdb2 or hallddb.jlab.org/rcdb2
      • Automatically selected by gxenv
      • Remaining tests:
        • DAQ (Sergey) and Website (Dmitry)
    • Geant4 (Richard):
      • Link to Richard's logbook for the Alma9 port
      • Test build with Geant4.10.7.p4
      • Evaluation: compare b1pi test with G4.10.4.p2 and G4.10.7.p4
    • ROOT
  9. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
    1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
      • #854: Rename Particle_t enum Unknown to UnknownParticle (Richard)
    2. halld_sim: Issues, PRs
    3. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs
    4. MCwrapper: Issues, PRs
    5. gluex_root_analysis: Issues, PRs
  10. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Notes

  • JANA2:
    • DL1Trigger_Data: begin_run is triggered by change of previous run number, happens for Jana1 as well
    • Performance: drop in performance above 32 threads, investigating
    • HDDM issue: thread safety, issue created HDDM #6
  • HDDM upgrade: requirement for HDF5, package installed on (i)farm 1/23/25
  • New TagM calibration procedure:
    • Model ready
    • Plan: test first evio file of each run with next monitoring launch
    • Missing: halld_recon branch, CCDB table
    • Status of cache access through XRootD?

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
    • Alma9 container upgraded to gcc11.5.0, different from farm environment
  3. Software Upgrades
    • halld_recon:
      • $HALLD_RECON_HOME/src/BMS is deprecated, remove from the repo?
      • Remove dependency on histogram tools [2] (Sean, partly done)
      • #842: Locking in JANA, CDC plugins fixed
      • Make large 2D histograms in monitoring_hists optional: request for OSG production
      • Implement decoding and monitoring for TRD prototype (Sean, Simon, Lubomir, Nizar)
      • Implement decoding and monitoring for beam helicity measurements (Mark D. Justin, Ken, Peter?)
    • gluex_MCWrapper:
      • MCWrapper needs possibility to switch between operating systems / containers during workflow: #134 created
    • JANA2 (Raiqa, Nathan):
      • Transition to JANA2 wiki page: add commands for REST files and MC, halld_sim/hdgeant4
      • Adapt or upgrade mkplugin (done) and MakeReactionPlugin.pl (Raiqa)
      • Fix problem with resource pools, then tag to build and test (done)
    • RCDB (Dmitry):
      • Fix bug in upgrade command (Sean, Dmitry)
      • Update webpage (Dmitry)
      • Commission DAQ (Sergey, Dmitry): Beginning of November
    • Geant4
      • Try and compare b1pi test with G4.10.7 (Alex):
      • Did not solve hdgeant4 issue #223: Misconfiguration of Generator
    • ROOT
      • Upgrade the Alma9 build first, then try to build on Centos7
  4. Broken tape
    • IBM was not able to recover, data lost
    • 14839 files (1357 REST) from 2017-01 ver04, about 5%
    • Full list, reprocess?
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