GlueX Software Meeting, September 23, 2024

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GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, September 23, 2024
11:00 am EDT
F326/327

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Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. Report from the September SciOps meeting: slides
  3. Review of minutes and action items
  4. OS Upgrade to Alma9:
    • Container launch script [1]
    • MCWrapper status:
      • Containerized for slurm and swif in v2.9.0
      • Python3 and compatible with rcdb v0.9: new release?
  5. RUCIO:
  6. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
    • JANA2 (Raiqa)
    • RCDB (Dmitry)
      • RCDB 0.9 available in test build version_5.20.1.xml, gxenv automatically selects
      • Upgraded database: gluondb.jlab.org/rcdb2 or hallddb.jlab.org/rcdb2
      • Remaining tests:
        • DAQ (Sergey) and Website (Dmitry)
    • Geant4 (Richard):
      • Link to Richard's logbook for the Alma9 port
    • ROOT
  7. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
    1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
    2. halld_sim: Issues, PRs
    3. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs
    4. MCwrapper: Issues, PRs
    5. gluex_root_analysis: Issues, PRs
  8. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Notes

  1. Report from the September SciOps meeting::
    • Demo for gitlab pages application (Remco?)
    • Link to SciToken documentation and example (Richard)
    • Investigate if split of lustre quota into different experiments may be beneficial (KLF?)
  2. RUCIO:
    • Usecase document
    • Policy package in the works, Anil will start testing a workflow
    • Incoming evio files from the counting house will be registered by jasmine
  3. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
    • JANA2 (Raiqa)
      • Transition to JANA2 wiki page: add commands for REST files and MC
      • Provide scripts to compare histograms: as pdf (Alex), rootcompare (Richard) done
  4. Review of recent issues and pull requests:
    1. halld_recon: Issues, PRs
    2. hdgeant4: Issues, PRs

Action Items

  1. Documentation
    • Improve documentation on singularity containers:
      • supply Alma9 container through CVMFS
      • modify batch submission scripts (done)
  2. Check if native build works for container on Alma9, eventually get rid of -cntr builds
  3. Software Upgrades
    • halld_recon:
      • $HALLD_RECON_HOME/src/BMS is deprecated, remove from the repo?
      • Remove dependency on histogram tools [2] (Sean, partly done)
    • JANA2 (Raiqa, Nathan):
      • implement JANA2 in build_scripts, provide version.xml for general testing (done)
      • List of required tests: Transition to JANA2 wiki page
      • Target date: Sept 15 (pushed back)
    • RCDB (Dmitry):
      • DAQ Tests?
    • Geant4
      • Use newest version that was approved by Richard
      • Upgrade the Alma9 build first, then try to build on Centos7
    • 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?