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Minutes from 25 February 2009

2009/02/25 CSEP meeting

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

  1. Status of CSEP V9.1.1 on csep-op:

    • No problems
  2. Tasks for V9.4 release:
    • High priority:

      1. DONE: RELM S (space) and M (magnitude) evaluation tests

        • Available on csep-cert for RELM 5-year forecasts groups

      2. DONE: Staging of existing raw catalog data to be used by re-processing
        • Code changes and new acceptance tests are in SVN repository

        • Masha discovered lost reproducibility for first 3 operational months of raw one-day forecasts files due to:

          1. V1.0 didn't create metadata files for forecasts files as they were generated by the model codes
          2. 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)
          3. REMAINS TO BE DONE: manually re-store metadata files for forecasts:
            • It's very easy to isolate run-time Dispatcher directories that store input catalogs used to generate these forecasts
        • Everybody agreed to discard existing time-dependent forecasts and test results once they are re-generated with fixed ANSS catalog
      3. 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
      4. IN PROGRESS: New web-page for the CSEP:
        • John reported that most of the requested changes have been made
      5. IN-PROGRESS: Distribution of CSEP and dependent packages to other testing centers
        • John and Masha got csep rpm built with small subset of CSEP source codes (for testing purposes)
        • Masha installed test rpm on csep-devel successfully
        • Masha has to change all Makefiles in the CSEP to have rpm-ready 'make install' rules
        • Masha will create rpm specification files for each distribution of the CSEP (generic, NZ, Japan, SCEC)
    • Low priority tasks:
      1. 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?
      2. Forecasts models:
        • Global testing region:

          1. Danijel suggested to install CMT version of Yan's global forecast model using CMT catalog (M>=5.8)

          2. Masha has sent email to Yan with model requirements for the submission
            • Yan will discuss requirements with Dave Jackson, and will send a response
          3. Masha downloaded Yan's Fortran code to evaluate how easy it's to install within CSEP Testing Center
            • Should be the same amount of work to install the model as previously installed Yan's models for other testing regions:
              1. Get rid of hard-coded paths
              2. Use provided converter to generate binary format of input CMT catalog data
              3. Add support for input parameter file (forecast start date and time, location of input catalog and output forecast files)
              4. Write forecast converter to XML format
        • California:
          1. David Rhoades discovered a bug in installed EEPAS model at SCEC
            • David provided new executable which will result in new three-months forecast group at SCEC Testing Center
            • David asked to continue testing of currently installed models within CSEP Testing Center
      3. Trac ticket #133: Allow specification of uncertainties to create modified catalogs
      4. Trac ticket #134: Capture timestamp within name for the log file
    • 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
    • New hardware and OS upgrade to Fedora Core 10:
      1. John has new server set up, will become 'csep-cert'
  3. GEM requirements for CSEP:
    • Should have a discussion after Phil gets back from GEM1 meeting
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