Montpelier
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- Montpelier will have a full-time programmer, Claudia Lavalley, starting beginning of December. She will be available to work on GCR calib tasks
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- It should be possible to run GCR-related simulations on the Lyon farm. We need to investigate this possibility. Also, we need to establish a way to move large files back and forth efficiently, regardless of where runs take place.
NRL
- Andrey continues to work on GCR rates via Gleam.
- With help from Tracy and Francesco, he is closer to being able to get particle IDs from MCIntegratingHits
- His findings on file sizes and Gleam performance make the following points clear:
- Files produced (esp. mc.root) are HUGE. We can deal with this in several ways:
- Prune files
- Focus incident particles on certain types of interest (e.g. Fe) rather than the entire suite of CRHeavyIonPrimary particles
- Create specialized data products (i.e. tuples). This is what Andrey is doing via UserAlg
- TKR Recon is very slow on these events (due to large number of delta electron hits). We need to deal with this somehow (e.g. specialized path through Recon?)
- Files produced (esp. mc.root) are HUGE. We can deal with this in several ways:
- Eric Grove suggests that FIFO overflow in the TKR may result in events with only the lower layers read out. Can this be incorporated into the simulation for investigation?
- Mark needs to produce the next step in planning/tasks by approx. 1 Dec.