Minutes from 9 June 2009

2009/06/09 CSEP Meeting

Attendees: John Y., Masha L

1. csep-op:
   • V9.4.2 running since Thursday, May 28, 2009:
     1. Re-processing:
        • N, L and R tests for RELM groups for 2007
          1. 2007-08-02 and 2007-10-02 test dates failed due to NFS server problems
        • DONE Trac ticket #154: re-process alarm-based tests that were generated with V9.4.0
        • Still observe stuck cseprandom processes:
          1. John is looking at the problem
2. Fabian reported that acceptance tests passed for V9.4.2 installation at ETH
3. Matt updated New Zealand testing center to V9.4.2
   • John is helping Matt to set up operational server
4. Tasks for CSEP V9.7 release:
   • DONE Peter Shebalin's EAST three-month alarm-based model with M>=4 for California
   • Yan's Global long-term and short-term models using CMT:
     1. Yan's forecast cells seems to be using XX.0 values vs. CSEP XX.5 values for forecast cell centers:
        • Masha will ask Yan for the fix
   • Masha added new S and M tests for all groups that invoke N and L evaluation tests on csep-cert:
     1. M-test was failing for Global, WPacific regions
     2. Jeremy pointed out that M-test should not be invoked for forecasts with a single magnitude bin
   • DONE Trac ticket #148: Introduce acceptance tests for the viewer of testing center results
     1. Masha wrote initial set of test cases using ClientForm.py, and BeautifulSoup (HTML parser) and Python's unittest testing framework
     2. John will enhance the tests
5. 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
6. 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 ready
7. 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