The July & August 2019 LArSoft Offline Leads status update was handled via both a meeting (on July 30th) and a google document. People were asked to fill in the information in the document if they couldn’t make the July 30th meeting. Past meeting notes are available at: https://larsoft.org/larsoft-offline-leads-meeting-notes/ Thank you.
LArSoft – Erica Snider
The LArSoft project requests that the experiments provide feedback on the following two items:
- The LArSoft Spack MVP. See the instructions in the email “Announcing Spack / SpackDev MVP1a (“The LArSoft Edition”)” from Chris Green on June 20 to larsoft@fnal.gov.
- This will be the build system for art / LArSoft and the replacement for UPS in the near future. Your feedback is critical to ensure that the final product is easy to use (ie, effective, efficient, intuitive, easy to learn, satisfying). This is our chance to change the outcome.
- This PDF explains the MVP in detail, and how to set it up to evaluate the system.
- Please send any feedback or questions direct to spackdev-team@fnal.gov by July 20th.
- The migration to Genie v3
- Although LArSoft is driving an effort to decouple the version of LArSoft from any specific version of Genie, this is not yet possible. Moreover, once it becomes possible, it is unlikely that any version of Genie v2 will be included.
- We therefore need all experiments to sign off on the v3 migration, or to state their plans with respect to v3 (including any plan to stay at v2.x)
- NOTE: as of July 24, all experiments had signed off on the migration
The project is overseeing a considerable amount of work directed at making various parts of LArSoft thread safe, and in cases, parallelizing specific pieces of code. Some of this coding work will soon be integrated into LArSoft. We expect that a number of services (including experiment-specific provider variants) and various pieces of common code may be affected.
Work on the migration to GitHub is proceeding. More details of what this will look like to end users should be forthcoming over the next couple of months. We are expecting the main parts of the migration to be completed by mid-fall.
DUNE – Andrew John Norman, Heidi Schellman, Tingjun Yang, Michael Kirby
We are working to make the software for the near detector complex work together. This includes a pixel-based liquid-argon component, which will likely use LArSoft directly, a high-pressure gas TPC with an ECAL, called the Multi-Purpose Detector which has a software stack based on art and nutools and thus can run together with larsoft code, and a 3D Scintillator Tracker-Spectrometer. We need to simulate events crossing from one component to another, so a unified GEANT4 simulation is required. Common triggers and event builders will be needed to take data. A workshop was held on July 24 to discuss these issues.
We are also discussing the FD data model at a workshop at BNL on August 14-16. We will discuss databases, data streams, DAQ interfaces, framework and memory management, and of course the event model.
DUNE has discussed the GENIE v3 upgrade. While we are interested in continuing with GENIE v2, we can continue to work with older releases of larsoft and dunetpc. If we absolutely must mix GENIE v2 with newer simulation and reconstruction code, either a patch release or careful accounting of the GENIE systematics weights needs to be done.
We tried the quick-start instructions for the Spack MVP, LArSoft edition and gave some feedback.
ICARUS – Daniele Gibin, (Tracy Usher)
No Report
LArIAT – Jonathan Asaadi
No Report
MicroBooNE – Herbert Greenlee, Tracy Usher
Discussed what MVP meant, does enough to get a feel for it, but can still be changed if needed.
Thinking about when to merge to develop. Things preventing:
- Genie v3 (which is now resolved)
- IO rule, Have a new pid data product which everyone should want. In order to use it, need the IO rule. Waiting for someone to make the change.
SBND – Roxanne Guenette, Andrzej Szelc
No Report
Please email Katherine Lato or Erica Snider for any corrections or additions to these notes.