Although there is still some activity on PACE, with the formal end of the project at the beginning of last month it is time to write the close-out report. This would then be followed by a close-out meeting arranged by the ISIS project office. I think we are expecting to hold the meeting in August – I’d propose before 9th because that is the last day of the beam cycle and a lot of people will be away after that. So, working backwards, that means the report would be needed by mid-July at the very latest. I think that should be ample time to complete it.
We should also give some though about attendees of the close-out meeting. I’d suggest yourselves and the rest of the PACE team, David, Vicky, Hannah, Franz, Anders, possibly one or two more Excitations group members, someone from SCD (Gilberto??). Anyone else come to mind?
I attach a pro-forma for the close-out report, from the project office. Happy to discuss this if you like.
New tickets
[ ] #1685
[x] #1686
[ ] #1688
[x] #1695
[x] #1692
Things we said we'd do:
[ ] Docs
[x] User Documentation updated for H4
[ ] Developer/API Docs
[ ] Excitations feedback #1513
[x] H3-H4 conversion docs
[x] Deprecate Horace 3 (after closeout) and items leading to this (=Ross flipchart)
BAD
[x] spherical projection (thought to be broken). No specific instances reported - Ross to follow up
[x] code stability - Excitations are finding the use of master as release source problematic as code changes unpredictably
WORSE
[x] backward compatibility (refine crystal, cuts, ....) - should be backwards compatible apart from alignment where interface changed, old style will issue warnings which may intimidate/be seen as errors. Keep warnings as old interface may be deprecated. NB can disable warnings. Also there is uoffset issue, there is ticket. Ideas to solve this, not yet done. Could set offset=uoffset and warn on imperfect solution. DO NOW
[x] PR merged how to convert between 3 and 4 (instructions) mostly compatible bar warnings we dive instructions for reducing warnings
[x] stability (release direct from master, as above)
[x] Have separate branch for use on IDAaaS which only takes changes which fix breaking issues.
[x] error messages from each worker - add verbosity flag to parallel to prevent this or dump to log plus print headnode DO NOW dump to log file (errors) JW to do by Tuesday
[x] PR Open to deal with this, issue with Windows paths in strings.
[x] harder to use for "power users" interacting directly with sqw objects - work with Radu
[x] Meeting held to discuss plan of action for dealing with this issue.
[x] length of time to take cuts (read/write speed on IDAAAS) - addressible in the long term, 4 solutions - #1611
[x] Change to IDAaaS system kernel seems to produce better speeds in first instance
BROKEN
[x] Parallel fitting not compatible with SpinW - harass Duc POST-CONSTRUCTION
[x] General symmetrisation - symm sqw does not support symop general due to domain issues
[x] Needs linear algebra #1612 POST-CONSTRUCTION
[x] Cut-sym supports all transformations JW says cut-sym will work for this + python script to generate symmetries
[x] Someone to ask daaas for this - to run pip install spglib
[x] Need to check this works on daaas (installation issues) - JW to check
[x] projaxes - maybe misunderstanding of warning, check with Ross
[x] now documented for the conversion in Conversion docs
[ ] parallel HPC settings differ between H3 and H4
[ ] new H4 features need new settings, documented, need setup guide FIXING NOW
[ ] JW to provide this - hours work , available early in cycle JW to chat with Ross
[ ] random initial configuration - also part of setup guide
[ ] FIXING NOW but need IDAAAS input e.g. for new machines - also awits documentation
[x] repeat stability issue here as "github admin -> inclusion of changes"
[x] spherical projection - check with Christian, Russell, - hopefully ok with new docs and auto parameters- AB to add to JW doc for this
MISSING
[x] memory allocation for parallel processing
[x] warning waiting on merge of docs MERGED see docs for mem usage
[ ] initial configuration user help AS ABOVE this is the document
[x] proper version control (on the fly) = stability
[x] normalised polygons - see mslice feature (is this powder?) is this cut-dnd?
[x] feature request and optimisation
[x] JW to ticket
[ ] Implementation post-construction
HUMAN
[x] trust - low due to above issues
[x] inertia - still using H3
PROPOSAL
[x] ensure spherical projection works
[x] get users to use this as way into H4 as H3 does not have this
[x] Check reading H4 from H3 (Alex?)
[x] API (=Radu); document changes where interface can't be provided - another meeting/s with Radu
[ ] Move ross email to Horace-3 deprecation doc (Pace newsletter)
Closeout Meeting
Although there is still some activity on PACE, with the formal end of the project at the beginning of last month it is time to write the close-out report. This would then be followed by a close-out meeting arranged by the ISIS project office. I think we are expecting to hold the meeting in August – I’d propose before 9th because that is the last day of the beam cycle and a lot of people will be away after that. So, working backwards, that means the report would be needed by mid-July at the very latest. I think that should be ample time to complete it.
We should also give some though about attendees of the close-out meeting. I’d suggest yourselves and the rest of the PACE team, David, Vicky, Hannah, Franz, Anders, possibly one or two more Excitations group members, someone from SCD (Gilberto??). Anyone else come to mind?
I attach a pro-forma for the close-out report, from the project office. Happy to discuss this if you like.
New tickets
Things we said we'd do:
[ ] Docs
[x] Deprecate Horace 3 (after closeout) and items leading to this (=Ross flipchart)
BAD
WORSE
BROKEN
MISSING
HUMAN
PROPOSAL
[x] Check reading H4 from H3 (Alex?)
[x] API (=Radu); document changes where interface can't be provided - another meeting/s with Radu
[ ] Move ross email to Horace-3 deprecation doc (Pace newsletter)
[ ] Parallelization (gen_sqw, cut/symmetrise, Tobyfit)
[x] Filebacked - ok
[x] shift pixels awaits assessment of energy focus cut -- POST-CONSTRUCTION
[x] Generic projections
[x] Python interface - done - mo using to learn
[x] Generic minimiser -- POST-CONSTRUCTION
[x] New SQW (includes instruments, detectors to be done, see below) -ok
[ ] Modelling codes (Euphonic, SpinW, Brille)
[ ] Also check release versions of Euphonic, SpinW
[ ] All tested/testing? - more code coverage needed