GlueX Software Meeting, January 30, 2023

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

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Zoom Meeting ID: 160 636 9159 Passcode: 888788 Join

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
    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