Core Minutes 11/30/2010

• ScienceTools: (Jim) Added a new program for computing exposure maps, gtexpcube2, to Likelihood. The most recent version is in tag Likelihood-17-00-02. There are also new tags of st_facilities, sane and pyLikelihood with various enhancements. See the last three entries (starting with the one dated Nov. 27) in the Science Tools Development Notes for details and for examples of use of the new utiility gtexpcube2.

• FSSC: (Tom S.) The Goddard Fermi website was shut down due to the detection of a security vulnerability in a script. The script was not associated with the data server but, for the time being (days or even weeks) no scripts, including data server scripts, are accessible. Static content is available via ftp.

  The switch-over to the the new data has been smooth.

• Documentation: (Chuck) sends the following:

  I've not yet been able to run through the new Binned Likelihood tutorial using a released version of the Science Tools. Seth took a close look at my files last night and has given me a workaround. The problem has been fixed and will be included in the next release. If the workaround clears the problem I've been experiencing, I'll be able to finish the tutorial and will then retest both the binned and unbinned versions with the next ST release and ask Liz Hayes and the other SMEs to vet them before posting to the web.

  Publication of the last newsletter of the year is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 16th; the "drop dead" date is 12/13.

• Pass8: (Leon) has been exploring track truncations by looking at special runs with large numbers of them. He thought there might be a memory leak associated with writing out such events and indeed there seems to be. He decided to also look at truncations in normal runs and is now two levels of distraction away from the original issue.

  [Late addition from Leon: "The memory leak is probably small (TBD). The crash turned out to be in my mods to reconRootWriterAlg, fixed now, so I'm back to only one level of distraction. But I can probably commit the code first, and work on the distraction after!"]

  (Tracy) Not much to report. Probably will be more next week, after he, Leon and Italians meet to discuss integrating the recent Cal work.

• L1: (Heather) There is a new GR tag, v15r47p12gr16 and it is now in use in the pipeline. It fixes a problem in the AcdDigi output when there is a hit map bit, but no corresponding accept map bit.. so there is no PHA or range data read out, and apparently the PHA and range data members were not being initialized. So in that case, there was garbage in those data members. Also put in a fix to set the ninja bit, when this mismatch between hit and accept bits occur - previously, the ninja bit was only set when there was a mismatch with the GEM bits

• Core talk:

  • New Gaudi and vc90 (Heather) believes she has found the last impediment — it was in CMT itself — to building a debug version with no dependence on non-debug system libraries. A real debug version should be on its way shortly.

  • Snow leopard (Tom S.) It's almost all working, but there is a problem in the test step. The Qt processes running these jobs have been given a timeout value of 1/2 hour, but it's being ignored; the jobs hang around indefinitely.

  • New Windows box (Heather) The new machine now has both VS 2003 and VS 2008 installed. We need to add our stuff. (Tom) That would be SCons and all the RM programs.

  • TMineRelease (Tom S., Heather, Joanne) Neither the user nor the development distribution for vc90 is usable because the build itself did not complete successfully. The rootcint command fails because it can't find a file. It's difficult to see why since the very same command works on Linux.

  • GR and vc90 (Joanne) While awaiting the debug Gaudi build I've attempted to build several GR packages non-debug, just to see what goes wrong. So far, not much; for example, GlastSvc and AcdDigi build correctly and their test programs run. There are compiler errors in other packages. This is not surprising; new compilers tend to be fussier than old ones.

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