GlueX Software Meeting, November 18, 2024

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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, November 18, 2024
11:00 am EDT
F326/327

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Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. Report from the November SciOps meeting: slides
  3. Review of minutes and action items
  4. GitLab:
  5. 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
  6. RUCIO:
  7. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
    • JANA2 (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
  8. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
    1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
    2. halld_sim: Issues, PRs
    3. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs
    4. MCwrapper: Issues, PRs
    5. gluex_root_analysis: Issues, PRs
  9. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Notes

  • MCwrapper:
    • OSDF/pelican not yet installed - done with gxi 2.37
    • static RCDB v1 for trigger simulation with older software
    • project to switch between OS and ccdb variations progressing
  • RCDB:
    • RCDB not compatible with web server, disussion with Marty
    • switch DAQ this week
  • JANA2
    • To-do: Optimization and benchmark
    • check how sees are used in trigger simulation

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
      • 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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