GlueX Software Meeting, September 11, 2023

GlueX Software Meeting
Monday, September 11, 2023
11:00 am EDT
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Agenda

1. Announcements
2. Report from the September SciComp/Ops meeting
   • Bryans slides, Brad's slides
   • /project as replacement for /work and non-critical parts of /group
   • Computing review: focus on AI/ML, streaming readout, ...
   • Hall ESX VM cluster available for slow control, DB servers, remote counting house

1. Review of minutes and action items
2. MCWrapper news
3. Status of Centos7.9 container with gxshell
4. Discussion of software upgrade projects:
   • JANA2 (Nathan)
   • RCDB/CCDB (Dmitry)
   • Geant4 (Richard)
   • ROOT
   • RHEL8/Alma9 (Sean)
   • Remove python2 dependency
5. 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
6. Review of recent discussion on the GlueX Software Help List (all)

Action Items

1. Software upgrade projects:
   • JANA2 (Nathan):
     • implement JANA2 in build_scripts, provide version.xml for general testing
     • N. will focus on the transition in one month from now
   • CCDB 2.0 (Dmitry):
     • D. will work on the upgrade in the next weeks
     • Tests in CentOS7.9 container
     • Comes with new website
   • 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