Core Minutes 12 December 2006

Core Minutes 12/12/2006

Present: Joanne Bogart, Toby Burnett, David Chamont, Jim Chiang, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Richard Dubois, Warren Focke, Riccardo Giannitrapani, Tom Glanzman, Navid Golpayegani, Heather Kelly, Michael Kuss, Bryson Lee, Chuck Patterson, Igor Pavlin, Leon Rochester, Tracy Usher

MRStudio: (Riccardo) It's almost complete. You can get an idea of what the gui looks like from this screen shot. It is now possible to checkout, configure, compile and clean from the gui. Still missing: tag function.
To run, use the same procedure as for MRvcmt: just check out of cvs. Check out the HEAD for now. It's ready to be tagged; just hasn't been yet. On Linux you will also need to do
```
chmod +x MRStudio
```
to make it executable. Type MRStudio with no arguments to get help. To bring up the gui, type MRStudio gui. You must have ruby, but you only need the FOX library if you run the gui. It is not necessary for command-line running, which is the default. The first time you start up the gui FOX will be downloaded for you as was the case for MRvcmt.

(Toby) Can you invoke it with a cmtpath file? (Riccardo) Not exactly. You can pass it a more comprehensive file which includes settings for cmtpath, CVS root, etc. If you don't pass it such a file, MRStudio will use the automatically saved settings, as MRvcmt does. Riccardo plans to add the ability to just specify a cmtpath.
GCRCalib Integration: (Heather) Integration with GR and BeamtestRelease is hung up currently while she finishes adding a test program. She is hoping, since this facility is so new, that there will not be a need to maintain compatibility with use of TObjArray and we can just support TClonesArray. (Michael) That should be sufficient. (Richard) Oracle will be unavailable tomorrow. That could be a good time to make a new BeamtestRelease; then runs can start on Thursday. [The Computer Center outage this week which looked so scary has turned out to hardly affect us. In fact, since it does wipe out Babar, we may have more batch resources at our disposal than usual.]
Onboard Filter Status: (Tracy) All three filters are running and producing results. The package has been restructured to use an interface class. He wants to add output status words for heavy ion and mip filters to the TDS. The last piece of work in the current round is to add a class to handle the per-filter output status generically. Then he'll check it in and make sure it all works on Linux. (Richard) And changes Tracy made have to be put back into FSW, which needs to be approved by the CCB. Jana has asked us to prepare a Jira issue describing Tracy's fixes as part of this process. When this round is done, we'll be updated to use FSW which is about a month old, correct? (Bryson) believes there have been no changes to FSW filter code in that time.
Finally we need to deal with the long-term issue of how to keep our stuff and FSW in sync. (Richard) had a talk with Jana and they agreed (subject to JJ's approval; he's out of town this week) that what is needed is a way to trigger our builds using new FSW releases so that problems can be addressed as they appear. Porting the FSW build system to Windows would be ideal, but FSW has already made strenuous — and ultimately unsuccessful — efforts to do this.
Service Challenge: (Richard) There are two outstanding simulations to do. For now, all that is needed is a demonstration that they can be done
- Interleave (Richard) Runs for earth albedo were complete a long time ago. Navid has produced an xml file for them. (Toby) would like to use it. Is it checked in somewhere? (Richard for Navid)It's available in SLAC afs space now; should and will be checked into data directory [xml directory] of Interleave. Charged particle runs are also complete.
- Level 0 We are poised for further progress on pipeline definition now that Tom has returned from vacation.
Budget woes: (Richard) The budget for fiscal 2007 has not been passed and won't be for the forseeable future, so we're operating under a "continuing resolution". Such things are generally conservative; SLAC gets the minimum which has been seriously considered. In particular, the new-hire slots we have been counting on have been cut. Steve Ritz has promised a hire at Goddard who would be dedicated to software infrastructure.
Data server back-end: (David Chamont) Basic integration with web front-end has been done and is working. It will be released after the holiday break.
Python embedding: (Toby) See the latest on this topic in Toby's Confluence page.

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