GlueX Offline Meeting, August 10, 2010

GlueX Offline Software Meeting
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
2:00 pm EDT
JLab: CEBAF Center F326/7

Telephone

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Video Conferencing

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• EVO:
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  • Phone Bridge ID: 56083

Slides

Talks can be deposited in the directory /group/halld/www/halldweb1/html/talks/2010-08 on the JLab CUE (you have to be a member of the "halld" Unix group). This directory is accessible from the web at https://halldweb1.jlab.org/talks/2010-08/ .

Agenda

1. Announcements
   1. New release, sim-recon-2010-07-28: Mark
   2. b1pi analysis in cron job: Mark
2. Review of minutes from the last meeting: all
3. Hall-D File Formats (David L.)
4. Action Item Review: all

Minutes

Jlab: Mark Ito (chair), Richard Jones, David Lawrence, Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann

Announcements

• New release, sim-recon-2010-07-28. Mark mentioned the [???new release], announced almost two weeks ago. No comments on usability one way or another (no news = good news?).
• b1pi analysis in cron job. Mark showed the plots that are now produced automatically on a weekly basis. They show momentum distributions for positive pions, negative pions, protons and photons as well as angular distributions for the the same set of particles in $b_{1}\pi$ events. Both the script to do the reconstruction and the ROOT macro to make the plots are from David. Mark asked whether there was sentiment for mailing out the plots to the collaboration for review regularly; there was not. Does not mean that he won't do it anyway.

Review of minutes from the last meeting

• OSG Toolkit installation. The IT Division has still not opened the ports necessary for the OSG client programs to work at the Lab. Mark will ping them on the issue.
• Software Workshop. David reported that the proposal to the JSA Initiative ??? for the Software Workshop was submitted. We will have to wait until the first part of November before we hear a response.
  • Richard noted that he has noticed some inconsistencies in the handling of JSA Initiative proposals that include money for experimental equipment.
• Event Display. Andrew Blackburn will give an update of his work at the next Online Meeting.

New Action Items

1. Ping IT Division on Globus ports -> Mark