GlueX Software Meeting, May 5, 2025
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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, May 5, 2025
11:00 am EDT
F326/327
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Agenda
- Announcements
- Duplicated files will be deleted in ~10 days ,check yours with jcache duplicatedFileInfo halld (-l)
- GlueX Tutorial 2025 : May 12
- GSPDA Computing Bootcamp: May 22-23 ,register here
- Report from the monthly meeting with Scientific Computing Ops: slides
- A/B/C/D fairshare 10/40/10/40 % -> 30/30/10/30 %
- 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 (Peter)
- new release?
- RUCIO update (Anil)
- Update on new halld_recon libraries:
- Helicity:
- TRD:
- ECAL: included in analysis library PR#968 (Sean)
- Discussion of software upgrade projects:
- JANA2 (Raiqa) - done
- Transition to JANA2 wiki page
- RCDB (Dmitry) - done
- Temporary website: rcdb.pythonanywhere.com/runs/ caused problems on halddb-ext, disabled
- halldweb.jlab.org/rcdb links to the RHEL9 site on halldwebdev now
- halldweb.jlab.org/cgi-bin/ccdb/objects has to be moved as well
- ROOT
- version 6.32.08 in counting house, compiled with c++20
- minor changes needed for c++20 in hdds, amptools
- Upgrade with switch of default compiler standard in next release?
- JANA2 (Raiqa) - done
- Review of recent issues and pull requests:
- Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)
- Issue with https://www.gluex.org web page (fixed, thanks Richard)
Notes
- Richard: is the standard CCDB_CONNECTION mentioned on the wikipage?
- Gluex.org is hosted on commercial server, Richard pays for it
- RUCIO
- packages installed in Alma9 container
- testing with MCWrapper and offsite production starts soon
- hooks via swif2?
- ECAL reconstruction
- match parameters (red lines) not updated
- low matching efficiency: investigate single blocks?
- JANA2
- investigate crashes / timeouts with sqlite files
- janaroot, janaview2, nskip available in new release soon, but will only work with new root
- Action items:
- extend inv_mass plots for ECAL (Alex)
- move histograms to CDC_online (Naomi)
- fix (Raiqa), expand (Alex) mkplugin
- merge gxtwist in halld_sim (Alex)
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)
- Make large 2D histograms in monitoring_hists optional: request for OSG production
- gluex_MCWrapper:
- RCDB (Dmitry):
- Fix bug in upgrade command (Sean, Dmitry)
- 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?