Core Minutes 25 June 2013

Core Minutes 6/25/2013

Present: Joe Asercion, Jim Chiang, Richard Dubois, Warren Focke, Tom Glanzman, Heather Kelly, David Landriu, Leon Rochester, Tom Stephens, Tracy Usher

ScienceTools: (Jim)

See Science Tools Development Notes for details.
FSSC: (Joe) No news.
Pass7 Reprocessing: (Tom G.) P7 rebuild of FT1 files is underway. The runs are about 1/2 done now, and were started yesterday afternoon. There was some discussion of updating the FITS header names before the runs were started. The jobs may be done by tomorrow morning. After that, things are handed off to ME (to transfer to FSSC) and Brian (to ingest into astro server). (Richard) Remind me about FT2 file. Are those getting redone? (Tom) FT2 redo is part of the P7 rep program, which Warren will take care of. When Tom last looked, the FT2 files are done through early this year, so there is some backfill to be performed.
Hardware: (Tom) The new file server is close to being ready. Wilko will be draining wain018?
Pass8 (Tracy) Preparing for final GR for P8 reprocessing. Philippe is updating CalRecon to avoid possible recalculation for horizontal tracks, in the hopes of improving CPU performance. Tracy recalled Warren noting that if we can keep the P8 increase to 3 times or below the P7 code, then it should be ok.
Core talk:
- debug obf and rhel6 (Joanne) finally found Tony W. in yesterday and asked whether it would be much work for him to provide us with a debug version of obf on rhel6. The answer: none! The version we have already has debug symbols. It's optimized so stepping through the code can be tricky, but the same is true of our production code.
- Release Manager
  - Mac (Tom S.) So far only Mac LATEST builds have been moved to Mac and Tom is tempted to move them back, at least for the time being, since there have been no successful Mac LATEST builds since April. This is apart from the known issue requiring an occasional interactive log-in to keep the daemon going. (There is a cron job which is supposed to deal with this but doesn't.) Tony J. has not responded yet to pleas (he's in Brookhaven this week).
  - Windows (Heather) asks that GR be upgraded with the fix to keep assert windows from popping up. (Tom S.) Will do.
- LSF9 (Richard) Switch is imminent. Stuart Marshall will be using it from the Orange Cluster; we might be able to learn from his experience. (Warren) Tony made a JIRA to test it with pipeline. (Tom G.) has looked at commands; they seem to be backward compatible. For those who want to try it out, see SLAC instructions and man pages at /afs/slac/package/lsf/test/man or a browsable version Tom made.
  
  Possibly also of interest is a new batch monitoring tool, although it does not appear to be fully integrated into either the current batch systel (LSF v6) or the new LSF v9 test site.

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