Minutes from 7 January 2009

2009/01/07 CSEP meeting

Attendees: Yan K., Jeremy Z., Danijel S., John Y., Masha L.

1. CSEP V9.1 release status:
   • Release installed on csep-op server as planned on Monday, 2009-01-05
   • Includes new forecasts groups for:
     
     1. California: Yan's 1-day and 5-year models
     2. Western Pacific regions: Anna Maria's one-year model
     3. New Global testing region: Jeremy's and Anna Maria's one-year models
   • Masha opened new Trac tickets:
     
     1. #124: Preserve catalog with supplemental independence probabilities for RELM Mainshock forecasts groups
     2. #125: Plot labels for daily R-test results should be flipped
   • Danijel suggested to have intermediate release with fixes to Trac ticket #125 since it affects results display
   • Masha will tag repository with release candidate to be tested for a week

2. Yan has global forecast models using CMT catalog (M.+5.8) and PDE catalog (M>=5.0)

   • To be discussed with USC team when and which models to install within SCEC testing center
3. SSA abstract:
   • Danijel will submit abstracts
     
     1. Report on RELM results
     2. CSEP Progress
   • Jeremy will submit abstracts
     
     1. CSEP Results (worldwide)
     2. Microrepeaters at Parkfield
   • Phil will submit abstract on CSEP testing center
4. Tasks for V9.4 release:
   • New web representation of test results:
     
     1. Danijel suggested to create plots for all results on the web-server site
     2. Should still have plotting functionality within CSEP Toolkit for use by scientists
     3. Masha mentioned that acceptance tests for plotting routines will need to run on the web-server site as well
     4. Masha will isolate Python code for plotting and will point it out to John for testing
     5. Will need to publish already existing test results, but extra care will need to be taken in posting re-processed test dates - only latest results should be posted
   • Modular functionality of the CSEP Toolkit:
     
     1. Most of the modules can be invoked in standalone mode
     2. There is a lack of documentation on how to do it:
        • Should choose a known tool to generate documentation from inlined comments of the code rather than editing Trac wiki pages manually
   • Danijel asked if CSEP distribution and dependent packages can be organized in the yum-like way
     
     1. John will look into how to create rpm for CSEP releases
     2. May be should use distutils?
   • New models for Global testing region from Yan, Danijel, Peter
   • Code distributions for testing centers
   • Integration of Japanese codes
   • Staging of existing raw catalog data to be used by re-processing