HEP.TrackX Weekly

Friday 14 Oct 2016, 13:30 → 14:30 US/Pacific

vidyo

Paolo Calafiura, Steven Farrell

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Apologies:

 

News:

• Need to respond to reviewers comments by Oct 25

• Converging on agenda for hackathon after CHEP (@LBL): Oct 15, 16, 17

  • Teach-ins of Mayur LSTM filter, JR CNN classifier

    • Learn in detail what they do and how they work

    • Stretch goal: feed hits from JR classifier to Mayur filter

  • Will arrange vidyo room for Sat morning and Monday morning

• Nov 1-3 kickoff workshop arrangements

Outstanding Action Items:

• Pietro → introduce group activities

• Maria: I want to try to put all the agendas and the links and the minutes in a Basecamp : do you people use Basecamp? Pietro Shall we try? Others?

  • PC: Indico+google seems to work but I am open to evaluate basecamp

• Github private repository https://github.com/cmscaltech/HEP.TrkX (the cmswill dissapear)  

  • Steve’s ID: sparticlesteve

  • Mayur’s ID: mudigonda

  • Jim K: jbkowalkowski

  • Paolo: pcalafiura

• FIle sharing: MS made a 50GB Box @ caltech. → Paolo to test

  • Paolo Initial feedback: look and feel similar to google drive, even more to MS OneDrive.

    • Relies on Microsoft plugins to open/create documents like live minutes.

    • Concurrent editing in Word online was laggy initially but become seamless after a couple of edits (possibly a network fluke?).

    • Resulting document is saved as docx, rather than having to be exported as in google drive

    • Once one understands how to sync folders (not immediately apparent), OS X sync client works fine

    • Can not use “offline” MS Word to write to a document being edited online, even after installing recommended “box edit” application

    • Box app for android works, but no live edit, nor automatic sync of edited doc

    • Box webdav interface makes it straightforward to mount on linux

    • Drive integration is more of a hack, with various fuse modules that sort of work

    • Not tried box on Windows yet, I assume it will work great.

  • My conclusion is that both Box and Drive do the job, with some minor tradeoffs

  • I would recommend we stick with google drive just because it is more widely used in our community

• Data Storage: JBK

• Web page: MS will be ready this weekend

• Computing platform:

  • PC submitted NERSC ERCAP request for 1.2M hours 5+5 TB storage

  • MS setting up GPU tower

 

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