PC040614¶

Wednesday 3rd June 2014 at 15:00 RAL

Agenda¶

• Release status
  • Current Release = 0.8.4
    • EMR geometry, sensitive detector
    • Physics model - polarized decay
    • Spin tracking
    • Geometry update
    • G4BL update
    • PID VarB - tof + tracker
    • String/Json/Cpp conversion API
    • Memory leak fix
  • Patch release = 0.8.5
    • pending merge back
    • Physics list bug fix
    • Ckov empty data bug fix
  • Targets for next release:
    • Tracker updates and fixes
    • Close Json/Cpp conversion #1376
      • Cpp Maps updated in trunk
    • Ckov geometry
  • Wish-list for future release
    • EMR -- digitization, reconstruction
    • KL Digitization tune
    • DAQ maps to DB #1375 (needs #994)

• Schedule(All): 040614_Software_and_Computing.ods

• Detectors
  • Detector integration (Durga Rajaram)
  • Tracker (Adam Dobbs)
    • Station-numbering bug #1437
    • Add station-z to data structure #1438
    • Nan bug #1454 - fixed in tracker devel(to be tested)
    • Space-point, track-finding efficiency studies partly blocked by lack of trigger #1182
      • ACTION: merge into trunk
    • ACTION: flag low pt for downstream reconstruction
    • ACTION: Combine PR, Kalman integration test items into one in spreadsheet
    • ACTION: DR to look at integration tests, see if we need more
    • ACTION: AD circulate schedule to tracker group and get an update on Kalman
    • ACTION: Ryan to have a face-to-face with Adam and Heidt later in the month re geometry interface
  • TOF (Durga Rajaram)
    • TOF Calibration - integration with MAUS
  • EMR (Yordan Karadzhov/Francois Drielsma)
    • Finalize geometry
    • MC #1033
    • Track Reconstruction
    • ACTION: Francois to push his code to lp
  • KL (Mariyan Bogomilov)
    • Validation/optimization #1411
    • ACTION: JN to make comparison plots available to help with tuning and optimization
  • RealData (Yordan Karadzhov)
    • DAQ channel maps to DB (Rajaram) #1375, blocked by #994
  • Ckov (Drews/Winter/Rajaram)
    • Finalize geometry
      • Cremaldi + student have shown me what they have, to push to lp
    • ACTION DR get Lucien's geometry into MAUS
  • Global Recon (Jan Greis/Celeste Pidcott)
  • PID (Pidcott)
  • CP working on pulling KL and Ckov into PID, requires modifying the datastructure
  • Monte Carlo trigger (Ryan Bayes) #1182
    • RB reported an issue resizing recon_events in datastructure, after setting #trig events
    • ACTION DR to review/fix
    • restructure TOF digi?
• Infrastructure
  • Geometry/MC (Stefania Ricciardi/Ryan Bayes)
    • Ckov geometry update (Cremaldi)
    • need positions of survey nests from detector groups
    • need input on diffuser thickness
    • Speed improvements (Bayes)
  • MC Beam
    • There is a request to have G4BL decks in the CDB. JN will handle the interface code, JN to see what's in the DB and decide if it needs a new table
  • GRID and Batch Production (Chris Rogers/Janusz Martyniak)
    • Memory leak: #1456
  • Code deployment (All)
    • Memory leaks in MAUS #1431
  • Documentation
    • doxy doc has relative path issues - should be fixed in upcoming release-
  • Data Structure
    • Standardize conversion from string/json to cpp #1376 (Rogers)
      • Mappers updated to use new API
      • Input and Reducer as well?
    • (transient link) Load tests and Log (3424 spills)
• Online
  • Online data quality (Chris Rogers)
    • Have prototype GUI and prototype ROOT-based document DB to replace maus-web-app and django #1312
  • Software On Call (Durga Rajaram)
    • June run
    • http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/projects/maus/wiki/Software_on-call (SOC wiki)

• AOB
  • Software Workshop: June 23-24 -- Monday, Tuesday before CM 39
    • Note: At RAL
  • Step IV Readiness
  • ACTION: CR to make computing project spreadsheet available to link with rest of Step IV readiness schedule
  • Would like an SL6 box for testing, there are errors showing up on 64-bit SL6 that are masked on SL5
• Date of next meeting June 18 2014

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Notes¶

Attendance¶

Chris Heidt
Ryan Bayes
Chris Rogers
Celeste Pidcott
John Nugent
Chris Hunt
Adam Dobbs

KL¶

JN updating KL tuning -- to update validation plots and bring MB into conversation

Ckov¶

EMR¶

Tracker¶

ADC smearing -- need to talk to DAdey

Geometry ok -- help from RB
Field maps in third party library don't get updated in working dir

Implement Chris's API changes

Issue with reading cosmics data -- ping David Adey

After bug fixes and improvements - up and downstream reconstructed emittances agree with MC to < 0.5%

AD will try to get data structure in and merge with trunk -- hold off release until then

TOF¶

Get calibration tool in shape for June end running

Global¶

Jan Greis to update work plan - add items as necessary

MC¶

G4BL¶

Build system¶

Miscellaneous¶

Need volunteers for June 29 run
Dedicate an analysis code session at workshop