GlueX Software Meeting, January 30, 2023

GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, January 30, 2023
11:00 am EST
F326/327

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Agenda

1. Announcements
   • 24 new farm23 nodes: 128 cores, 512gb ram
2. Review of minutes and action items from the last Software meeting
   • Collect information about container use cases, provide examples, promote usage (Peter): [1][2]
3. BMS_OSNAME update (Mark)
4. Status of software upgrade projects:
   • JANA2 (Nathan)
   • RHEL8:
     • Dselector issue #156 open
5. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
   1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
      • Start Counter Mapping and Reconstruction
   2. halld_sim: Issues, PRs
   3. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs
   4. MCwrapper: Issues, PRs
   5. gluex_root_analysis: Issues, PRs
6. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Minutes

Participants: A. Austregesilo, B. Grube, S. Taylor, M. Ito, N. Brei, E. Barriga

Notes:

• The collaboration board was meeting in parallel, which severely limited the attendance.
• Nathan made progress with the JANA2 port. A few test experiments with streaming readout are planned in the near future.
• Mark is working on a build on Fedora 37. The native gcc version 12.2.1 is uncovering various problems, one of them related to the C++17 standard in evio was fixed [3].
• We discussed the start counter orientation and mapping problem

Action Items

• Provide Centos7.9 container with gxrun/gxshell (Peter)
• Discuss strategy for upgrade of online machines with computing center, possibly install singularity (Alex)
• Investigate DSelector problem on RHEL8/Rocky8 (all)
• Investigate low memory efficiency for halld-osg jobs: 8core/8GB (Peter/Thomas)

Sean's projects:

• Deprecate HistogramTools.h
• Separate out halld_amp from halld_sim and support pure analysis builds in build_scripts

Notes from the Sci/OPS Meeting

• slides
• scigw.jlab.org will be the next login note, equivalent to hallgw, no separation
• Rocky8 still default, but CERN/Fermilab is moving to Alma8/9. Sci/OPS would like to go to Rocky9 as well, but difference between Rocky (company) and Alma (non-profit) is mostly political.