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RTA Software Shift Summary (18 Feb - 04 Mar 2025)

Personnel

RTA Software Maintainer: Sebastien Ponce (@sponce), Christopher Rob Jones (@jonrob)

RTA Software Shifter: Zekun Jia (@zejia)

Next RTA Software Shifter: Andy Morris (@anmorris )

Shift summaries

Previous shift (03 Jan-17 Feb 2025): #910 (closed)

Issues ongoing

Lines optimization

MR Status
!4070 (merged) BandQ lines reoptimizing for 2025 data taking. Under test.
!4230 (merged) B2OC lines optimization
!4352 (closed) RD lines optimization. Code review.
!4287 (merged) B2CC optimization, under test.
!4437 (merged) Changes to SLB lines

Open MRs

For sets of MRs in the table below, MRs with the tags lhcb-lcg-dev3lhcb and lhcb-lcg-dev4lhcb are assumed to be part of the preparations for LCG106 migration.

MR Status
Detector
LHCb
LHCb!4583 (merged) Required by Boole!577 (merged). Seems ready from RTA side.
LHCb!4702 (merged) lhcb-lcg-dev3lhcb, lhcb-lcg-dev4lhcb. Capability with old LCG versions is a problem.
LHCb!4739 (merged) https://gitlab.cern.ch/groups/lhcb/-/milestones/37. Code Review.
LHCb!4885 (merged) lhcb-lcg-dev3lhcb, lhcb-lcg-dev4lhcb. Goes with: Rec!4226 (merged) Allen!1862 (merged) !4240 (merged) DaVinci!1223 (merged). Move from HepMC2 to HepMC3!
LHCb!4897 (closed) In development
LHCb!4900 (merged) lhcb-lcg-dev4lhcb. Pending
LHCb!4915 (merged) Under review, partly under test. Goes with Rec!4249 (merged), MooreOnline!552 (merged)
LHCb!4935 (merged) Try to optimize the test check. Pending.
LHCb!4936 (merged) needs title change. Less related to RTA
LHCb!4951 Fix setting compression options when reading MDF and writing DST. Tests failed
LHCb!4728 (merged) Include general particle names for exotic searches. Passed to the maintainer.
LHCb!4946 (merged) graph renaming functor for HLT2 TCK. WIP.
LHCb!4950 (merged) Improve error message if trying to use pdb inside lbexec
LHCb!4959 (merged) control on alg name length of the output. WIP.
Rec
Rec!3747 (closed) Seems obsolete. Associated with LHCb!4342 (closed), , MooreOnline!321 (closed)
Rec!3808 (merged) Modernised track material parametrizer with dd4hep. Inactive. Goes with !3259 (merged)
Rec!3814 Replace IRelatedPVFinder by LHCb::bestPV in the JetAccessories. Inactive
Rec!3847 (closed) Goes together with LHCb!4504 (closed). WIP.
Rec!3925 (merged) UT Hit monitor. Need feedback from maintainer. Rely on !3484 (merged)
Rec!3948 Speed up FT cluster lookups. Inactive
Rec!3959 May be immigrated.
Rec!4052 (closed), Pending. Goes with MooreOnline!488 (closed)
Rec!4257 (merged) lhcb-lcg-dev4lhcb
Rec!4126 (merged) Still under review... Depends on LHCb!4872 (merged). Applied in !4109 (merged)
Rec!4275 (merged) Downstream track reconstruction with custom ordering of UT layers. Under discussion.
Rec!4266 (merged) Goes with !4434 (merged). Passed to Maintainer
Allen
Allen!1449 (merged) Test finished.
Allen!1474 Add StdInfo validator. inactive
Allen!1548 add enable monitoring param where missing. inactive
Allen!1610 (merged) Improve how allen.py takes tag arguments. Waiting input from coordinator
Allen!1628 Lumi line under filter. inactive
Allen!1704 (merged) inactive
Allen!1750 (merged) Disable physics lines whilst the velo is open. Ready to be merged
Allen!1751 (merged) Change the throughput socket name to have separate sockets per device. Pending
Allen!1789 (merged) Fix the race condition and python property of LFTripletSeeding. Test finished.
Allen!1835 Allen CPU/GPU Validator comparator. WIP.
Allen!1836 (merged) Changes for bandwidth division input files. Pipeline broken
Allen!1892 Initial value in simplified_velo_kalman_filter not correct. Under discussion.
Allen!1890 (merged) lowmass ee lines, under discussion
Allen!1889 (merged) Optimize monitoring. Status?
Allen!1885 (closed) Restore a soft muon line in Allen? Under discussion
Allen!1820 (merged) Development of the new Hlt1TauToPhiMuLine. Pending?
Allen!1493 (merged) BeamSpot monitor. Test finished. Goes with LHCb!4586 (merged)(LHCinfo condition)
Allen!1693 (merged) Reviving the parametrised Kalman filter. Test finished.
Allen!1776 (merged) Use sparseCCL for velo clustering. Test finished.
Allen!1756 (merged) Add option to configure missing modules in velo search by triplet, under review
Allen!1906 (merged) A set of UT tracking updates 👍 . Under review.
Allen!1896 (merged) prescales on Hlt1 DrellYan lines
Moore
!3027 (merged) Rely on Rec!3768 (merged). Inactive.
!3708 Under discussion whether close or not
!3544 (merged) TISTOS efficiency. Under test.
!4020 (closed) Sprucing cache builds for pp ref 2024. Inactive
!4305 (merged) lhcb-lcg-dev4lhcb
!4293 (merged) lhcb-lcg-dev4lhcb
!4338 Use DD4HEP fixed geom tag run3/2024.Q1.2-v00.00 instead of run3/trunk where appropriate. Pending.
!4292 (merged) As part of #868. Test results generally look fine.
!4262 (merged) TTrack PID with calo information added. Goes with LHCb!4901 (merged) and Rec!4233 (merged). Passed to the maintainer.
!4387 (merged) Graph renaming for HLT2 TCK. WIP. Goes with LHCb!4946 (merged)
!4426 (merged) add neutral / charged classifier in CAL reconstruction. Test finished. Goes with Rec!4274 (merged), LHCb!4943 (merged), Lbcom!808 (merged)
!4402 (merged) Enable multi-thread downloading of input files. Passed to the maintainer.
!4446 (merged) New logic to read event numbers. Under review.
!4295 (merged) OWNPV related work in charm WG. Passed to maintainer.
Alignment
Alignment!468 inactive
Alignment!534 Targeted to 2024-patches, inactive, associated with !3692
Alignment!540 (closed) Targeted to 2024-patches, inactive
Alignment!546 (closed) Pipeline failure, inactive
Alignment!554 Merge conflicts, inactive
MooreOnline
MooreOnline!339 (closed) Targeted to 2024-patches, inactive
MooreOnline!355 (closed) Targeted to 2024-patches, inactive
MooreOnline!489 (merged) Possibly ready for merge, one open discussion
MooreOnline!507 (closed) Not for merge, workaround for LHCb!4739 (merged)
MooreOnline!529 (merged) Changes to get FTMatCalib working. WIP
MooreOnline!552 (merged) Passed to maintainer

Merged MRs

MR Status
Detector
LHCb
LHCb!4949 (merged) handling large event in buffer
LHCb!4773 (merged) Migrate from QMTest to Pytest
LHCb!4948 (merged) Add generic accessors for MCVertices. Goes with Rec!4276 (merged)
LHCb!4958 (merged) hot fix on the issue induced by LHCb!4773 (merged)
Rec
Rec!4124 (merged) Goes with !4027 (merged). Correlation monitor for PbPb
Rec!4279 (merged) CMakeLists.txt bug fix
Rec!4079 (merged) Functors: replace more types with instances
Rec!4176 (merged) Make MuonStandaloneRec work with hits and clusters.
Rec!4229 (merged) RICH1 resolution study. Rely on LHCb!4945 (merged). Goes with !4378 (merged)
Rec!4175 (merged) Needs test implementation
Allen
Moore
!4289 (merged) Preparing for 2025 run
!3561 (merged) Fix FT tests, enable in DD4HEP Builds
Alignment
MooreOnline
MooreOnline!438 (merged) Add configuration of the MBM communication method
Edited by Zekun Jia