Minutes from 11 February 2009
2009/02/11 CSEP meeting
Attendees: Yan K., Jeremy Z., John Y., Masha L.
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CSEP V9.1.1 release has been installed on csep-op Thursday, January 29, 2009:
- All forecasts are generated for new groups that were introduced in CSEP V9.1.0
- Yan took a look at generated forecasts for all testing regions on the web - they all look reasonable
- Yan received manuscript on RELM test results, will send out comments if any
- Yan send Jeremy manuscript on PDE catalog
- Masha circulated a document with requirements for model submission to the testing center
- Waiting for final edits from Phil
- Masha is helping Matt to introduce new forecasts groups to New Zealand testing center:
- Matt requested Trac ticket #133: Allow specification of uncertainties to create modified catalogs
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csep-op is running out of disk space (40Gb left vs. 75Gb last week)
- John is working on getting more disk space
- Tasks for V9.4 release:
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RELM S (space) and M (magnitude) evaluation tests are available on csep-cert for RELM 5-year forecasts groups
- Staging of existing raw catalog data to be used by re-processing - work in progress
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Masha discovered lost reproducibility for first 3 operational months of raw one-day forecasts files due to:
- V1.0 didn't create metadata files for forecasts files as they were generated by the model codes
- V1.0 did create metadata files for forecasts files converted to XML format, but these files were re-generated due to discovered bug (Trac ticket #91)
- Possible solutions:
- Can manually re-store metadata files for forecasts based on easy isolation of run-time Dispatcher directories that store input catalogs used by these forecasts
- Can use metadata of XML format forecast to stage existing raw catalog - downloaded at time of re-creating XML format forecasts with CSEP V8.7.0
- Masha will talk to Danijel to decide which approach to use
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- New web representation of test results:
- Danijel suggested to create plots for all results on the web-server site
- Acceptance tests for web viewing code
- 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
- New web-page for the CSEP:
- Meeting with Tran and John M. to review existing themes tomorrow, February 12, at 11:00am
- Modular functionality of the CSEP Toolkit:
- Most of the modules can be invoked in standalone mode
- There is a lack of documentation on how to invoke modules:
- Use Doxygen?
- Distribution of CSEP and dependent packages to other testing centers
- Might be time-consuming to set up rpm distribution, but beneficial not to provide support in a future to other testing centers when they upgrade CSEP
- New models for Global testing region from Yan, Danijel:
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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
- Masha will take a look at Yan's Fortran code to evaluate how easy it's to install within CSEP Testing Center
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- Re-processing due to Trac ticket fixes:
- #110: RELM Mainshock forecasts groups should use declustered catalog for evaluation tests
- #128: N-test delta should be computed as poisscdf(N, lambda)
- #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
- #113: ANSS events with missing depth value have their time set to 00:00:00 by Matlab import routine
- #121: r-test results flipped
- Might have an issue with reproducibility of existing test results if re-generate time-dependent forecasts due to the above problems
- OS upgrade to Fedora Core 10
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