Minutes from 7 July 2009

2009/07/07 CSEP Meeting

Attendees: John Y., Masha L

1. CSEP V9.7 release:
   1. Installed on csep-op on Wednesday, July 1, 2009
      • Passed unit and acceptance tests
      • Started scheduled re-processing of California's one-day and RELM forecasts groups due to the ANSS catalog fixes
      • Updated forecasts groups with new S and M tests
      • Started processing of S and M tests for forecasts groups for June 1-5, 2009
      • New forecasts groups:
        1. California's three-months-alarm-models-V9.7 with EAST model from Peter Shebalin
        2. Global one-day-models-V9.7 with Kagan-Jackson one-day model using CMT catalog
2. Software development:
   1. Masha will work on scalar moment magnitude precision for one-line-per-event formatting of CMT catalog:
      • Need to check if existing forecasts models are affected by the change
      • Will validate Yan's global model against fixed catalog
   2. Jeremy provided a fix for N-test due to the comments by David Rhoades and Matt:
      • Have delta1 and delta2 result variables vs. current one delta variable
      • Not necessary to have intermediate release because of the fix
      • May be a target for V9.10.0
      • Daily N-test plot is affected by the change
      • Masha integrated the fix into testing framework, updated plotting and cumulative results functionality to handle new variables
      • Jeremy pointed out that N, L, S and M tests should not display upper uncertainty area for cumulative plots - fixed
3. mini_CSEP distribution
   • Jeremy suggested to poll community for requirements
     1. N, L, R, M and S tests written in Python
     2. Conversion routines between XML and Matlab for the forecasts
     3. Plots, maps
   • We should provide list of external package dependencies and links to these packages
   • Masha will start working once release candidate is out
   • May have an intermediate release when distribution is ready
4. CSEP paper for EScience Conference
   • No updates
5. Hardware:
   1. new csep-cert
      1. CruiseControl is running CSEP builds successfully since Thursday
      2. John and Masha are working on getting email notification with build  status to work