GlueX Software Meeting, April 21, 2025
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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, April 21, 2025
11:00 am EDT
F326/327
Agenda
- Announcements
- Duplicated files will be deleted in ~30 days ,check yours with jcache duplicatedFileInfo halld (-l)
- GlueX Tutorial 2025 : May 12
- Report from the monthly meeting with Scientific Computing Ops: slides
- Review of minutes and action items
- Software status:
- Pull_request test currently running on halld-cron-2024 (RHEL9), but connection from halldweb refused (Wesley)
- Container status
- GitLab
- MCWrapper status:
- Project to switch containers in-flight: #134
- RUCIO update (Anil)
- Update on new halld_recon libraries:
- Discussion of software upgrade projects:
- JANA2 (Raiqa)
- Transition to JANA2 wiki page
- Locking, CCDB access Issue #890 fixed by jana2.4.1, optimal thread counts under study
- RCDB (Dmitry)
- Temporary website: rcdb.pythonanywhere.com/runs/ causes problems on halddb-ext
- halldwebdev.jlab.org/rcdb operational, but only on-site
- A (desperate) sanity saving workaround for no-gui days
- ROOT
- version 6.32.08 in counting house, compiled with c++20
- minor changes needed for c++20 in hdds, amptools
- 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
- 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
- RCDB (Dmitry):
- Fix bug in upgrade command (Sean, Dmitry)
- Move new webpage to halldweb (Dmitry, Sherman)
- 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?