GlueX Software Meeting, November 18, 2024
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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, November 18, 2024
11:00 am EDT
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Agenda
- Announcements
- Nov 19: Transition of /cache filesystem to read-only:
- Knowledge-Base Article
- swif2 solution included in launch scripts, please update your hd_utilities repository
- Nov 19: Transition of /cache filesystem to read-only:
- Report from the November SciOps meeting: slides
- Review of minutes and action items
- GitLab:
- GlueX Container CI/CD
- Pages (Anil, tbc)
- MCWrapper status:
- Project to switch containers in-flight: #134
- RUCIO:
- Usecase document
- Policy package in the works
- Discussion of software upgrade projects:
- JANA2 (Raiqa)
- Transition to JANA2 wiki page
- 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
- JANA2 (Raiqa)
- Review of recent issues and pull requests:
- Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)
Notes
Action Items
- Documentation
- Improve documentation on singularity containers
- Demo for gitlab pages application (Remco?)
- Check if native build works for container on Alma9, eventually get rid of -cntr builds
- 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 and MakeReactionPlugin.pl (Raiqa)
- Fix problem with resource pools, then tag to build and test
- 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):
- 2024-10-09 with G4.10.7 (only Alma9)
- 2024-10-07 with default environment (nightly build)
- Did not solve hdgeant4 issue #223: Misconfiguration of Generator
- Try and compare b1pi test with G4.10.7 (Alex):
- ROOT
- Upgrade the Alma9 build first
, then try to build on Centos7
- Upgrade the Alma9 build first
- halld_recon:
- Broken tape
- IBM was not able to recover, data lost
- 14839 files (1357 REST) from 2017-01 ver04, about 5%
- Full list, reprocess?