Core Minutes 2/9/2016

• ScienceTools: (Jim) No news.

• FSSC: (Joe) No news.

• Hardware glitches: (Richard)

  • An NFS server succumbed to overheating [due to an uninterruptible power supply failure]. It took out several disks, including the one with our CVS archive. A back-up had been done only hours before and apparently there were no commits between the back-up and the failure; we seem to have dodged a bullet.
  • Someone tripped over a network cable, disconnecting it and taking down the astroserver.

• C&A (Leon) There were two presentations, the first about ongoing work on CalOnly events. If we're willing to accept a somewhat larger PSF, around 2 degrees, we see 40% more events in the range 20 GeV - 1 TeV. The second presentation concerned a bug in EarthCoordinate.cxx in astro. The altitude component of the geodetic coordinates calculation is incorrect. The feeling is that it should be fixed (there are a couple different options on how) and FT2 files should be regenerated. See GRINF-76 for more information. Links to both presentations can be found in the C&A agenda.

• Core talk:

  • Externals (Heather) The new externals are all built for rhel6. The only remaining hurdle concerns TMine. Heather will consult with Eric on that one.

    Next up: building externals for rhel7.

  • Mac support (Jim) In order to productively use the Virtual Box Mac VM provided by FSSC on his laptop he needs a command-line debugger. (Mac gui apps don't run reliably in this set-up.) He's working with Jeremy on this. Since he doesn't always have his laptop with him, it would be good to install the Mac VM on a SLAC server. Is Tony the right person to do this? (Richard) would start with Tony.

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