Minutes from 1 September 2009

2009/09/01 CSEP Meeting

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

1. csep-op:
   1. V9.10.0 release:
      • Need to upgrade SciPy (V0.7.0) and NumPy (V1.3.0) packages
   2. V9.7.0 release:
      • Re-processing of California's one-day and RELM forecasts groups due to the ANSS catalog fixes
        1. Routing problem not related to CSEP on Sunday
        2. Masha will resume re-processing
2. CSEP meeting at USC on September 24-25, 2009
3. Software development:
   1. Tentative code freeze on September 8, 2009
   2. Masha added display of test result variables as mathematical symbols to cumulative plots
   3. Masha reported tickets to be addressed:
      • Trac ticket #170: Replace use of xml.dom.minidom by cElementTree module in plotting functions
      • Trac ticket #176: Spawned simultaneously Dispatcher's use the same run-time directory
      • Trac ticket #171: Cumulative results still use '<' value instead of '<=' in probability function
        1. No re-processing required, can recompute cumulative based on daily information within it
   4. Jeremy pointed out problems with operational data:
      • Trac #173: Check for downloaded raw catalog file not being empty
      • Trac #174: Re-process 2009/05/14-16 test dates that use CMT catalog due to the ticket #173
      • Trac #175: Change configuration files for SW and NW Pacific forecasts groups to use local copies of observation catalogs
      • Trac #177: XML format of forecast should still be passed through master XML template
   5. Masha integrated Alvaro Gonzalez's models for CSEP V9.10.0:
      • Two one-day alarm-based models for California: UNIFORM and NEAREST
      • UNIFORM model for testing in three-month and five-year forecasts groups
      • csep-cert has generated forecasts for new groups
      • Masha asked Alvaro to validate forecasts maps and test results published by csep-cert to intensity
4. mini_CSEP distribution
   • Jeremy distributed requirements to modelers community of RELM experiment and Italian testing regon
     • Some scientists are interested in contributing to the CSEP
     • Jeremy and Danijel will set up priorities for suggested by community requirements
     • Masha is working on separating reference data to corresponding distribution packages
     • Requirements:
       * convert a ForecastML forecast to MATLAB format
       * convert a MATLAB forecast to ForecastML format
       * generate a plot of the spatial distribution of the forecast (i.e.,
       map-view of the forecast)
       * generate a plot of the magnitude distribution of the forecast (i.e.,
       magnitude versus normalized probability--I have attached an example )
       * execute an L-test (including appropriate plot)
       * execute an M-test (including appropriate plot)
       * execute an N-test (including appropriate plot)
       * execute an R-test (including appropriate plot)
       * execute an S-test (including appropriate plot)
       * Optional: declustering
   • We should provide list of external package dependencies and links to these package
   • Masha will spend time on getting generic package to conform with mini-CSEP requirements
5. SCEC Annual Meeting:
   1. Masha submitted CSEP software/system abstract
   2. Jeremy submitted CSEP science abstracts:
      • SCEC Testing Center results
      • RELM results
      • M and S tests results
   3. Danijel asked Masha to give a short talk about testing center implementation on Sunday during "Source Inversion Validation" workshop
6. Jeremy and Max are working on retrospective analysis for Italian models
   • Using custom codes which are within 1% of differences with CSEP results
7. CSEP proposal:
   • Jeremy mentioned that Danijel and Dave Jackson are working on proposal
8. John asked about web representation for EU Testing Center
   • Phil suggested to discuss proposal for solution next week at CSEP meeting
9. Hardware:
   1. csep-cert
      • CSEPWebTest.py is not part of nightly build - some issues connecting to the web server
        1. John is looking at the problem