GlueX Software Meeting, January 27, 2025
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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, January 27, 2025
11:00 am EDT
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Agenda
- Announcements
- Report from the monthly sciops meeting: slides
- Review of minutes and action items
- Software status:
- Latest release version_5.22.1.xml
- Default not yet updated because of pull_request test on RHEL7
- All other processes are running on RHEL9/Alma9 by default now
- Container status
- GitLab:
- GlueX Container CI/CD : hangs when including apptainer package
- 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
- RUCIO:
- Anil is focusing on EIC right now, GlueX can adopt system once it is running
- Update on new halld_recon libraries:
- Helicity
- Parsing in DEVIOWorkerThread.cc
- DBeamHelicity_factory
- TRD
- ECAL
- Helicity
- Discussion of software upgrade projects:
- JANA2 (Raiqa)
- Transition to JANA2 wiki page
- Change to hddm needed for thread safety: hddm issue #6]
- Performance studies
- Strange differences in ComboConstruction
- Status update (Raiqa)
- RCDB (Dmitry)
- Upgraded database: gluondb.jlab.org/rcdb2 or hallddb.jlab.org/rcdb2, automatically selected by gxenv
- Since last week, DAQ is writing to rcdb2
- New (temporary) website: rcdb.pythonanywhere.com/runs/
- Geant4 (Richard):
- Evaluation: compare b1pi test with G4.10.4.p2 and G4.10.7.p4
- version_5.22.0.xml built with Geant4.10.7.p4
- ROOT
- JANA2 (Raiqa)
- Review of recent issues and pull requests:
- Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)
Notes
- OSDF/Pelican: Richard was able to access /cache over http, authentication via SciToken, manual staging of files
- Action Item: Create documentation page in Offline_HOWTO_List
- Helicity information:
- Board installed, Sean will help with EVIO implementation, currently waiting for test data
- λ-half plate: EPICS only in one stream, written to RCDB
- RCDB can average over run duration, calculate std dev (ask Sean)
- Better: write entries in CCDB, can be changed as calibration
- TRD
- Low level code in place, Translation Table (Justin), Objects (Sean), Geometry (Simon)
- ECAL
- Hits (Sasha), Clusters (Simon), Geometry (done), CCDB (done)
- JANA2 benchmarks:
- try CCDB sqlite file on local partition
Action Items
- Documentation
- Improve documentation on singularity containers
- Check if native build works for container on Alma9, eventually get rid of -cntr builds
- Alma9 container upgraded to gcc11.5.0, farm is in sync again
- 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
- 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?