Minutes from 6 October 2009

2009/10/06 CSEP Meeting

Attendees: James H., Phil M., Danijel S., Fabian E., John Y., Masha L.

1. csep-op:
   1. V9.10.0 release:
      • Installed last Thursday, October 1, 2009
      • Masha is working on setting up configuration file for reprocessing of Yan's forecasts that use CMT-catalog
      • Started re-processing of three-month models due to ANSS catalog fixes
        1. Discovered bug in schedule XML format element if month is specified multiple number of times: #183 Exception is raised if the same month is specified in XML format schedule element multiple times
           • Submitted fix to SVN
        2. Re-arranged test dates for re-processing to avoid the bug, continued re-processing
      • #181 Re-store ability to re-process one-day forecasts with existing observation catalogs
        1. Fixed in SVN, tested on csep-cert
      • Failure due to existense of old format intermediate summary file for N-test
        1. Masha removed all intermediate N-test summary files, reprocessed successfully
2. Fabian presented slides for new implementation of CSEP results web viewer
   • Proposed to use Django based on Model-View-Controller paradigm
   • Split results viewer into:
     • web service for CSEP data products (maps, XML results datasets)
       • Use Database to store CSEP results by Dispatcher
         • John pointed out that it might be redundant to split already available XML results for injection to the database, then reconstruct XML from the database
         • John pointed out that would need to inject already existing data into the database
         • Masha is worried about making it error-prone due to the reprocessing
         • Very minimal work on operational CSEP software if only need to change to publish XML results vs. SVG plots
         • Fabian could work on implementation
         • Danijel suggested to create tests summaries by Dispatcher
           1. Masha suggested to implement visualization of the summary on web server site by CSEP Toolkit modules
     • interactive web application to present data products
       • Danijel asked about authentication for Japanese viewer
         • John suggested to use Apache's one
     • Danijel asked if it shold be integrated into Drupal?
       • John suggested to try a simple example to see if it works
     • James asked why not to use Plone
       • John said that we used to use Plone, but migrated away from it, but may be should investigate more
     • John asked how to discover what is available:
       1. Danijel suggested to use URL queries to discover
       2. Masha suggested that Dispatcher could update already existing configuration files for forecasts groups with current forecasts filenames and publish it as well
       3. John suggested to use allmodels.xml that current web viewer has
3. Hardware:
   1. John started copying data from csep-op to new server
      • May be will be ready next week
   2. csep-cert
      • CSEPWebTest.py is not part of nightly build - some issues connecting to the web server
        1. John is looking at the problem