GlueX Software Meeting, January 13, 2025

GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, January 13, 2025
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Agenda

1. Announcements
   • Request to update Hall D Data Managment Plan: guidance, first iteration due Dec 22
2. Review of minutes and action items
3. Container status:
   • New version of AlmaLinux9 container with glux_install 2.37:
     • /group/halld/www/halldweb/html/dist/gluex_almalinux9_gxi2.37.sif or /cvmfs/singularity.opensciencegrid.org/jeffersonlab/gluex_almalinux_9:latest
     • includes support for singularity/apptainer, HPDF/pelican, rucio and new gxrun
     • gcc version upgraded to 11.5.0, out of sync with ifarm again!
4. GitLab:
   • GlueX Container CI/CD : hangs when including apptainer package
   • CVMFS apparently available
   • Roles (Developer, Maintainer, Owner) can only be changed by Owner (me), clarification request pending
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:
   • Usecase document
   • Policy package in the works
7. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
   • JANA2 (Raiqa)
     • Transition to JANA2 wiki page
     • version_5.21.1_jana2.xml: successfully passed b1pi test
     • Monitoring launch test: discovered various issues, all solved by Raiqa et al.
     • 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
8. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
   1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
      • #860: Add fdc positions to res tv2 (Naomi, Simon)
      • #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
9. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

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 [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):
       • 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
   • 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?