h1. PC16032016

Wednesday 16 March 2016 at 15:00 GMT

Room CR09 RAL

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h2. Summary of Actions

|_.Task |_.Person |_.Added |_.Issue Number |_.Comment |

|Fix Kalman x interpolation in absence of seed spacepoint |C. Hunt |02/03/2016 |- | | 

|A. Dobbs to kick off discussion on online EV with Y. Karadzhov |A. Dobbs |20/01/2016 |- |Do before next meeting |

|Urgently need validation plot from detectors to integrate with geometry & reconstruction to make sure geometry+reco is OK |D. Rajaram |03/02/2016 | | "Examples at the bottom":http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/projects/maus/wiki/ProductionValidation123 |

|Fix Pattern Recognition bugs that cause loss in efficiency |A. Dobbs |06/01/16 |#1807 |Done for straights |

|GRID MC running |D. Maletic, D. Rajaram |02/12/15 | |Needs a champion - D. Maletic? Local running under DR until then. |

|Fix tracker coordinate system flips |Tracker group |18/11/2015 |#1792 |Mostly done now - C. Hunt should have fixed by next meeting.|

|Add data_analyzable flag for each detector in post processing to CDB | Detector software heads |16/09/2015 |#1585 | |

|Add tracker efficiency plots to MAUS |P. Kyberd |16/09/2015 |- |Hopefully done by next meeting |

|Optimize residuals for final tracks |C. Hunt |- |- | Done for straights |

|Fix close to paraxial tracks producing nan output |C. Hunt |- |- |  |

|Update tracker online plots |M. Uchida |- |- |Just needs final testing  |

|Implement dE/dx in Runge-Kutta |J. Greis |- |- |In release 2.0.0, but needs a debug fix|

h2. Release status

* Current release = 2.1.0

* Targets for release 2.2.0:

** Global Runge-Kutta fix

** Event viewer added

* Targets for future release:

** Framework -- trigger MC

** Framework -- fix InputCppDataRoot

** Tracker -- fix Kalman interpolation in absence of seed spacepoint

** Tracker -- Optimise helical pattern recognition 

h2. Schedule

* attachment:2016-03-16_MAUS-Schedule.ods

h2. Detectors

* Detector integration (D. Rajaram)

**  *ACTION*: Add data_analyzable flag for each detector in post processing to CDB (*Detector software heads*) #1585, #1689

* Tracker (P. Kyberd)

** *ACTION* Fix Pattern Recognition bugs that cause loss in efficiency #1807 (*A. Dobbs*)

** *ACTION* Fix tracker coordinate system flips

** MC studies of effect of 1T field on tracker performance (P. Kyberd, Analysis Group)

** Space-point, track-finding efficiency studies partly blocked by lack of trigger #1182

** *ACTION*: Optimize residuals for final tracks (*C. Hunt*)

** *ACTION*: Fix close to paraxial tracks producing nan output (*C. Hunt*)

** *ACTION*: Update tracker online plots (*M. Uchida*)

** *ACTION*: Fix Kalman x interpolation in absence of seed spacepoint (*C. Hunt*)

** Flag low pt for downstream tracker reconstruction? (*A. Dobbs*)

* TOF (D. Rajaram)

** Restructure TOF MC Digitizer - part of trigger MC (*D. Rajaram*)

* EMR (F. Drielsma)

* KL (M. Bogomilov)

* CKOV (A. Liu, D. Rajaram)

** Calibration

** Validate CKOV MC against data

h2. Global Reconstruction

* Tracking (J. Greis)

* PID (C. Pidcott)

h2. Monte Carlo

* Monte Carlo trigger (D. Rajaram) #1182

** Restructure TOF Digitisation and incorporate MapCppTrigger (*D. Rajaram*)

h2. Geometry

* RB to do last fix to sync gdml with mice modules for next release

h2. G4BeamLine

h2. Online Reconstruction

* Have prototype GUI and prototype ROOT-based document DB to replace maus-web-app and django #1312 (C. Rogers)

* Software On Call (A. Dobbs)

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

h2. Batch Offline Reconstruction

* MAUS running fails on GRID (#1815)

* GRID running 1.0.0

** Enable MC GRID running again #1739

** execute_against_data.py to always produce tarball _Is this still relevant?_

** numpy ATLAS library is causing issues on GRID (*J. Martyniak, A. Dobbs*)

* Offline Rec running 2.0.0

h2. Infrastructure

* InputCppRoot still using JSON (and so super slow) (*A. Dobbs, C. Rogers*) (#1814)

** New InputCppDataRoot module is fast but crashes quickly 

* Fix geometry test which randomly produces large SOAP error (*R. Bayes*)

* Fix problems when setting header_and_footer_mode to "dont_append" (*C. Rogers*, *C. Pidcott*) 

h2. Performance

* Speed improvements for MC

* Beam generation excessive resource usage

** Query analysis group requirements (in particular how many G4BL beams we need)

** Consider alternative upstream beam generation code

h2. Tools

h3. Event Viewer

* Add event viewer to MAUS #1799 	

h2. Documentation

* Update tracker (C. Heidt)

* Update geometry (R. Bayes)

h2. AOB

h2. International Toll-Free Dial-in numbers

* Switzerland:	0800705351

* UK:	08004960576

* US:	1-866-740-1260

* "Other numbers":http://www.readytalk.com/an.php?tfnum=8667401260

* Access Code: 5673390

h2. Notes

h3. Attendance

A. Dobbs, J. Greis, C. Heidt, D. Rajaram, M. Savic

h3. Release Status

h3. Schedule

h3. Detectors

* All detectors

* KL

* Ckov

* EMR

* Tracker

** Geometry looking good in release 2.1.0

* TOF

h3. Global Reconstruction

* J Greis still trying to tracking on real data (GEANT4 seg fault issue)

h3. Monte Carlo

h3. Geometry

h3. G4BeamLine

h3. Online Reconstruction

h3. Batch Offline Reconstruction

* GRID MC has made a few runs after in accordance with Analysis group requests

h3. Infrastructure

h3. Performance

h3. Tools

* Event viewer: Y. Karadzhov concerned heprep write out may slow onrec, M. Savic says should be fine -> try it out and see if there is a problem or not

h3. AOB

* SOC: Weekend shifts in April now up on CHEESE

Next meeting: Software Workshop, 1st April 2016