Minutes from 23 February 2010

2010/02/23 CSEP Meeting

Attendees: Phil M., John Y., Masha L.

1. csep-op:
   1. From 2010/01/26 metting: Performance issue due to new NFS server:
      • John wants to try separating testing regions to different disks
        1. Masha said it's OK since all testing regions are independent from each other
   2. John restored older Matlab license - R2007a
2. From 2010/01/26 meeting: Jeremy had a discussion with Peter Shebalin:
   • Should run alarm-based evaluation tests for EAST (alarm-based) model against EEPAS and PPE David Rhoades models (rate-based)
     • Masha responded that EAST model has a single magnitude bin vs. rate-based models having multiple magnitude bins
     • Jeremy said that alarm-based tests won't work then
     • Jeremy will get back to Masha regarding alarm-based tests for alarm-based model vs. rate-based model
3. From 2009/12/15 meeting: Phil suggested to use iRODS as data management for CSEP:
   • John will look into it some time early January
   • John suggested to use VirtualMachine to distribute CSEP software
     1. Will need to have different images for different testing centers due to the installed forecasts models
4. Software development:
   1. Priorities for V10.4.0 release:
      • Self-discovering web service
        1. John, Danijel, Ankur and Masha met on Monday to discuss implementation specifics:
           • #211 Add support for new web service
           • https://intensity.usc.edu/trac/csep/wiki/WebService
        2. Masha sent Ankur a reference to unit tests for plots: https://intensity.usc.edu/trac/csep/browser/trunk/src/generic/test/unitT...
        3. Phil asked Masha to look into definition of "web service"
        4. John described new "web service" as a Python script driven by Apache through mod_Python that will use self-discovering approach on available within Testing Center:
           • Geographical regions
           • Forecasts groups
           • Models within each group
           • Test type
           • Summary reports
           • Data format

           Will use well defined set of keys and values to create queries

      • #209 Add per event and sum of true log-likelihoods to L, S and M RELM evaluation tests results
      • DONE #185 Generate summary tables per each evaluation test
        1. John will add support to the current results viewer web site
      • Get rid of remaining Matlab codes:
        1. #68 Adopt QuakeML format for catalog data
           • Masha contacted Fabian about status of QuakePy
           • QuakePy does not have support for applying catalog uncertainties
        2. #51 Consider rewriting/invoking Fortran declustering code in Python
   2. New models
      1. Max will submit ETAS model for California some time in March-April 2010
      2. Matt promised Java version of STEP to be available for the installation within SCEC Testing Center by March, 2010
         • Matt will get back to Masha if he wants to continue testing of fixed Matlab version
   3. From 2010/02/02 meeting: High resolution Global testing region:
      1. Danijel reported that forecast template and format are being defined
      2. Yan sent out an announcement about "FULL EARTH HIGH-RESOLUTION (0.1x0.1 degree) EARTHQUAKE FORECASTS"
         • Using PDE catalog
         • Will integrate within CSEP when testing region is established
5. From 2009/12/08 meeting: CSEP policies
   1. Should discuss if SCEC Testing Center results should be open to the public
      • Danijel will get back to the group
   2. Danijel will work on more content for the main CSEP web pages
6. 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