PC100914¶

Wednesday 10th September 2014 at 15:00 RAL

Agenda¶

• Release status
  • Current release = 0.9.0
  • Targets for next release:
    • TOF Calibrations by-run
    • KL Calibrations to DB
    • EMR -- digitization, reconstruction
    • DAQ maps to DB #1375 (needs #994)

• Schedule(All): 100914_Software_and_Computing_copy.ods

• Detectors
  • Detector integration (Durga Rajaram)
  • Tracker (Adam Dobbs)
    • Space-point, track-finding efficiency studies partly blocked by lack of trigger #1182
    • ACTION: flag low pt for downstream reconstruction
    • ACTION: ADC smearing, Cosmic data -- need input from David Adey
    • ACTION: MC ADC-modeling refactor
  • TOF (Durga Rajaram)
    • calibration by-run getter having CDB issues #1519
      • push to trunk
  • EMR (Yordan Karadzhov/Francois Drielsma)
    • MC #1033
    • ACTION: Francois to push his code to lp
    • does the "extra events" from EMR affect MC trigger formation?
      • Communication from François: code is in private branch on lp, MC digitizer v1 is complete, Reconstruction being worked on
  • KL (Mariyan Bogomilov)
    • STANDING: MC validation, optimization, tuning, #1411
  • RealData (Yordan Karadzhov)
    • DAQ channel maps to DB (Rajaram) #1375, blocked by #994
  • Ckov (Drews/Winter/Rajaram)
    • Finalize geometry
    • ACTION: DR get Lucien's geometry into MAUS
      • does the MiceModules code need change? Material definitions?
  • Global Recon (Jan Greis/Celeste Pidcott)
    • ACTION: Need uncertainties from detector reconstructions. Uncertainties on track points, momenta; Uncertainties on tof time. How? Also will need datastructure modifications once we understand how to get the uncertainties
  • Tracking (Greis)
  • PID (Pidcott)
  • Monte Carlo trigger (Ryan Bayes) #1182
    • ACTION: DR to look over fix build issues
    • restructure TOF digi?
• Infrastructure
  • Geometry/MC (Stefania Ricciardi/Ryan Bayes)
    • Ckov geometry update (Cremaldi)
    • need positions of survey nests from detector groups

• Speed improvements (Bayes)
  • see 21 July Geometry meeting

• MC Beam
  • Standing: There is a request to have G4BL decks in the CDB. JN will handle the interface code
  • ACTION: MapPyBeamMaker gets appropriate currents for requested run -- get this code into the trunk
• GRID and Batch Production (Chris Rogers/Janusz Martyniak)
  • #1489 grid processing on hold because of memory leak
  • Memory usage ~2.5 GB
  • Try grid running again?
• Code deployment (All)
• Documentation
• Data Structure

• 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)
    • http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/projects/maus/wiki/Software_on-call (SOC wiki)

• AOB
• Date of next meeting September 24 2014

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Notes¶

Attendance¶

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

KL¶

• Calibrations are in DB
• If run-by-run dependence is anticipated, need to update interface code to handle it (DR)
• Validation is as good as it gets, tuning might keep ticking along until at least PID paper completion

Ckov¶

• Updated geometry in trunk
• MC need to check if Lucien's student is going to do it, if not DR

EMR¶

• François has v1 of digitizer in his branch - would like to get this into the trunk after tests are written
• Reconstruction (track) in progress - FD says CM40 is a realistic deadline to get this in

Tracker¶

• D.Adey suggests changing the ADC modeling to reflect p.e. drop-off on some of the boards (saturation?)
• C.Heidt to rework the digitizer - consensus to have a meeting when algorithm design is in place
• Several updates from Santos on Kalman, seems to improve things. A.Dobbs to check with Santos on sched updates and pending issues
• Would like to get some cosmic data before March; means need DAQ-unpacking issues resolved before then.

TOF¶

• understand resolutions from latest calibrations (DR/YK)

Global¶

• Global meetings have been on hold, hoping to get them restarted next week

MC¶

Geometry¶

• Tracker geometry -- He windows are in, but waiting for expert guidance on actual position
• issues with GDML implementation due to overlap volumes coming from CAD drawings. RB has asked JT for drawings without overlaps. Waiting.
• survey nest positions from detectors -- should be handled via CDB table.
• A: specification needed for Janusz to implement this

G4BL¶

• JN's KL and G4BL region updates are in his branch, DR to pull them in.

GRID¶

• CR to take a look at OutputCpp ROOT-mess re freeing memory.
• Try to run batch again with next release
• RB coming up with specs for running batch MC. Will only have TOF/Tracker/KL digitizers but that's probably good enough to do emittance reconstruction sims

Build system¶

Infrastructure¶

Miscellaneous¶