Telecon 2018 4 18

Time

• 1600 CET / 1000 ET / 0700 PT

Agenda

• Open Analysis
  • First PyCBC open-astrophysics paper is out arxiv:1804.04179. Any comments or suggestions on the data release at https://github.com/sugwg/gw170817-inclination-angle/ are welcome.
• Technical Issues
  • Open issues or questions about the PyCBC Travis build process:
  • https://github.com/gwastro/pycbc/blob/master/.travis.yml triggers a build matrix with 5 VMs (e.g. https://travis-ci.org/gwastro/pycbc/builds/367569714) that: builds the EL7 CVMFS virtual env, builds the Debian CVMFS virtual env, builds the pycbc_inspiral bundle on SL6 for use on OSG, builds the Docker container, builds and deploys the documentation.
  • The docker build is based on pycbc-base-el7. This has a git hash of lalsuite hard coded in it here and needs to be updated if the reference PyCBC lalsuite hash changes. Look like this was missed when 1.9.x was released as we've switched from 95ad957 to 8cbd1b71.
  • Currently we make Docker images for PyCBC using the Travis. What is needed to close the loop to make working Singularity images? I recall some discussion about being dumped into the account of the pycbc user being an issue.
  • Any questions from Josh on Pegasus/OSG running?
  • Any question on CVMFS issues?
    • Should we deploy the software to Stuart's new LOSC server?
    • Is anyone planning on setting up an LIGODataFindServer for LOSC?
    • Did Josh ever fix PyCBC so it can query multiple LIGODataFindServers?
• Projects
• AOB

Attendence

• Alex Nitz
• Brian Bockelman
• Collin Capano
• Duncan Brown
• Josh Willis
• Steven Reyes
• Larne
• Tito Dal Canton
• Peter Couvares
• Swetha Bhagwat
• Thomas Downes
• Marton Tapai

Mintues

• Software data release
  • Release on github of the inclination samples (Duncan)
  • github citing software
    • http://www.physics.utah.edu/snowpac/talks/Arfon.pdf
  • In general we should be citing more of our software (think scipy, numpy, etc)
• PyCBC Infrastructure walkthrough (Duncan)
  • Do we need to keep building bundles?
    • Yes, for the most general running
    • How often can we use containers?
  • Should we just use the root user on our docker images instead of the pycbc user?
  • We should rethink the test infrastructure in regards to the pycbc_build_eah.sh script
  • Can gitlab integrate with github?
    • Is it restricted to the hosted version?
  • ACTION: Make canonical source for lalsuite version (either the docker image, or the from travis)
  • Can we prune the ROM data we include in docker images?