Minutes from 28 January 2009

2009/01/28 CSEP meeting

Attendees: Phil M., Danijel S., Jeremy Z., John Y., Masha L.

1. CSEP V9.1.1 release status:

   • Release candidate has been tested for a week on csep-cert

   • Masha copied release candidate (csep/tags/Version_pre9_1_1_01_20) to official release in the repository csep/tags/Version_9_1_1

   • Checked out the release code on csep-op, started the build

     1. To be installed on csep-op Thursday, January 29, 2009

2. Masha will write a document with requirements for model submission to the testing center, and will circulate within the group
3. Matt and Masha upgrading New Zealand testing center to V9.1.0
4. Fabian sent tar ball with Japanese testing center codes
   • Masha will submit to SVN
   • Phil asked about stability of the CSEP builds when we add testing center specific codes:
     
     1. CSEP builds and testing framework are not affected since testing centers codes are isolated to separate directories
5. John run hardware diagnostic tests on csep-cert - all passed, and upgraded the bios

   • Masha run CSEP build on csep-devel - took 9 hours vs. 11 hours for the build on csep-cert

   • Dispatcher for one-day forecast group took 2.5 hours on csep-devel vs. 3 hours on csep-cert

   • csep-devel hardware seems to be a good candidate for upgrading certification and operational servers to

6. csep-op is running out of disk space

   • John will work on it
   • John will upgrade existing 30Tb storage for use by CSEP operational server
7. Tasks for V9.4 release:

   • RELM S (space) and M (magnitude) evaluation tests:

     1. Jeremy asked to add only to RELM 5-year forecasts groups
   • Staging of existing raw catalog data to be used by re-processing - work in progress
   • New web representation of test results:
     
     1. Danijel suggested to create plots for all results on the web-server site
     2. Acceptance tests for web viewing code
     3. Will need to publish already existing test results in XML format, but extra care must 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 invoke modules:
        • Use Doxygen?
   • CSEP distribution and dependent packages to other testing centers
     
     1. Phil suggested to have a design meeting to discuss implementation
   • New models for Global testing region from Yan, Danijel:
     

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

        • Danijel suggested to install CMT version of the model
        • Masha will send email to Yan with model requirements for the submission
   • Re-processing due to Trac ticket fixes:
     
     1. #110: RELM Mainshock forecasts groups should use declustered catalog for evaluation tests
     2. #128: N-test delta should be computed as poisscdf(N, lambda)
     3. #114: Cutting catalog to geographical region eliminates valid events if their longitude or latitude values fall on the area cell borders
        • Should stage existing raw catalog, re-create observation catalog, and time-dependent forecasts
     4. #113: ANSS events with missing depth value have their time set to 00:00:00 by Matlab import routine
     5. #121: r-test results flipped
   • OS upgrade to Fedora 10