Minutes from 20 May 2009

2009/05/20 CSEP Meeting

Attendees: John Y., Masha L

1. csep-op:
   • John switched server to new hardware with FC10:
     1. There were ETAS model failures due to the MPI configuration file problem due to the switch
     2. Masha reprocessed failed test dates once /etc/hosts file was corrected
     3. All previously archived runtime data was restrored on new server
     4. Masha restored metadata files for one-day forecasts for the first months of operations
   • Masha tagged SVN repository with tags/Version_9_4_1 and updated yum repository with release RPM's
   • John updated CSEP installation to V9.4.1
   • Masha started unit and acceptance tests for the installation
2. Matt reported 5 failed acceptance tests for installed release candidate V9.4.1:
   • John is looking at matplotlib installation: does not support svg format of the image file
   • John built newer version of scipy package and updated yum repository with it. It fixed deprecation warning message reported by scipy that was breaking Matlab parsing of returned matrix of random numbers by cseprandom.py
   • Masha is helping Matt to install new models in NZ testing center
3. Tasks for CSEP V9.7 release:
   • Peter Shebalin's EAST three-month alarm-based model for California
     1. Peter sent reference data for M4 version of the model
     2. Masha sent email to Peter asking if we can abandon M5 version or should we test both versions of the model
     3. Peter responded that it's OK to proceed with testing of M4 version, and to abandon M5 version of the model
     4. Masha updated EAST acceptance test to M4 model
   • Alvaro Gonzalez's one-day alarm-based model for California
     1. Might be part of CSEP V9.10.0 if there will be not enough time before code freeze for V9.7.0
   • Yan's Global long-term and short-term models using CMT:
     1. Yan's forecast is using 0.5 degree grid vs. CSEP 1.0 degree grid:
        • Yan provided conversion routine for short-term forecast file
        • Will ask Yan to provide routine for long-term forecast file since it has different file format
   • Trac ticket #148: Introduce acceptance tests for the viewer of testing center results
     1. John and Masha are working together on setting up a simple test case using ClientForm.py, HTML parser (BeautifulSoup, may be) and Python's unittest testing framework
4. Jeremy distributed mini_CSEP
   • Danijel suggested to re-write Matlab evaluation codes in Python:
     1. Phil and Danijel will decide