Minutes from 20 October 2009

2009/10/20 CSEP Meeting

Attendees: Danijel S., Fabian E., Jeremy Z., John Y., Masha L.

1. csep-op:
   1. V9.10.0 release:
      • Re-processing of three-month models due to ANSS catalog fixes
        1. Re-processed five-year rate-based forecasts groups
        2. Matlab format of three-month forecast with start date of 2008-07-01 caused scipy exception:
           1. scipy V9.7.0 is installed on csep-op
           2. scipy V9.7.1 does not have problem loading the same forecast file - tested on csep-devel
           3. John is working on installing scipy V9.7.1 on csep-cert to validate current CSEP installation
           4. Once csep-cert passes all CSEP acceptance tests, can upgrade csep-op and re-process
      • FIXED: Trac #181 Re-store ability to re-process one-day forecasts with existing observation catalogs
        1. Fixed in SVN, tested on csep-cert
      • Evaluation of Global and NW Pacific one-day forecasts failed for 2009-09-17 and 2009-09-18 test dates:
        1. FIXED: #187 Negative centroid time offset relative to 00:00 seconds in CMT raw catalog results in invalid time
        2. #188 OneDayModelPostProcess for CMT catalog might include events from the day following the test date if any are available
           • Danijel pointed out that time interval boundaries should be inclusive on one end and exclusive on another end to avoid the same event to be tested twice (if occured at mid-night)
           • Masha wrote a script to identify which test dates are affected by the problem - total of about 100 dates for Global and Western Pacific regions
   2. Fabian reported that Italian catalog is not ready yet, so testing within European Testing Center won't start until some time next year
   3. Masha proposed to have intermediate release anyway to install fixes for described above Trac tickets
      • Scheduled for Monday, November 2, 2009
      • No need to include EU Testing Center codes distribution since it's not needed for November 1, 2009
2. Jeremy used miniCSEP distribution on csep-devel:
   • Documentation is sufficient
   • Should add a note that environment should be copied from csep account
3. From last meeting: 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
4. Hardware:
   1. John proposed to have NFS server replaced tomorrow, 2009-10-21
      • Masha will send John email once nightly Dispatchers complete
   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