Minutes from 2 June 2009

2009/06/02 CSEP Meeting

Attendees: Jeremy Z., John Y., Masha L

1. csep-op:
   • John enabled backup copy to scec-02
   • Updated to V9.4.2 on Thursday, May 28, 2009:
     1. Unit and acceptance tests succeeded
     2. Started re-processing:
        • N, L and R tests for RELM groups for 2007
        • DONE: R test for all forecasts groups of all regions that involve TripleS model
     3. Two RELM-mainshock-aftershock failures due to:
        • NFS server not responding - John restarted the server
        • Stuck python processes that are spawned by Matlab: process finishes if Masha issues strace -p PID
          1. Masha wrote a script that re-produces the problem
          2. John will try different NFS options when currently running re-processing for RELM groups completes
2. Matt updated New Zealand testing center to V9.4.2
   • John is helping Matt to set up operational server
3. Tasks for CSEP V9.7 release:
   • Peter Shebalin's EAST three-month alarm-based model for California
     1. Masha re-created EAST forecast on csep-cert to use M>=4 version of the model
   • Alvaro Gonzalez's one-day alarm-based model for California
     1. To be part of CSEP V9.10.0
   • 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:
        • Estimated about 1 week of Masha's time to put models under test
   • Include new S and M tests for all groups that invoke N and L evaluation tests
   • Trac ticket #148: Introduce acceptance tests for the viewer of testing center results
     1. John and Masha are working on setting up an initial set of test cases using ClientForm.py, HTML parser (BeautifulSoup, may be) and Python's unittest testing framework
4. Jeremy mentioned that N-test will need to be changed due to comments by David Rhoades and Matt:
   • Will have delta1 and delta2 result variables vs. current one delta variable
   • May be a target for V9.10.0
5. mini_CSEP distribution
   • Danijel suggested to re-write Matlab evaluation codes in Python
   • Jeremy suggested to poll community for requirements
     1. N, L, R, M and S tests
     2. Conversion routines between XML and Matlab
     3. Plotting?
   • Masha will start working after Yan's model is installed
   • Italian modelers are using already distributed by Jeremy package
   • May have an intermediate release when distribution is read
6. Hardware:
   • John built new csep-cert
     1. CruiseControl is installed
     2. John will install missing 3-rd party packages CSEP is using
   • csep-devel already uses new hardware, will need to update packages