CORSIKA 8 Technical Call

Thursday Sep 8, 2022, 5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Europe/Berlin

    CORSIKA Zoom meeting room :
    https://zoom.us/j/99307684644?pwd=SlFxOXcvWHBCcEM1WVY2TU9DOXJmQT09
    
    Meeting-ID: 993 0768 4644
    PIN: 932335

Alexander briefly presented the merge request PR 445 and the changes to PROPOSAL. No objections to merging were raised on the call. Felix asked whether the PROPOSAL team has plans for further updates in the near future; this is not the case, so this should be the stable version for the time being.

Max is currently out of office, and there was some confusion on the current procedure with regard to merge requests in his absence. This should be clarified at the next meeting of the steering committee.

A discussion on validation tests followed. The proposal is to produce scripts that generate profiles and similar properties for a certain number of showers, compare these profiles and numbers and in case of large discrepancies forward them to the corresponding experts. Nikos will try to setup a branch with scripts he developed for the radio branch (cf. issue 520).

Lukas asked the maintainers of modules producing tables to create some tool that generates these tables if possible, thus making it easier to package them. If that is not possible, tables (such as those produced by PROPOSAL, which depend on the environment) should not be written to the install directory, which in a cluster environment is typically not writable.

5:00 PM → 5:20 PM PR 445: New PROPOSAL release 7.4

https://gitlab.iap.kit.edu/AirShowerPhysics/corsika/-/merge_requests/445

Speaker: Alexander Sandrock (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Sandrock_PR445.pdf

Minutes of C8 Technical Call September 8, 2022

Alexander briefly presented the merge request PR 445 and the changes to PROPOSAL. No objections to merging were raised on the call. Felix asked whether the PROPOSAL team has plans for further updates in the near future; this is not the case, so this should be the stable version for the time being.

Max is currently out of office, and there was some confusion on the current procedure with regard to merge requests in his absence. This should be clarified at the next meeting of the steering committee.

A discussion on validation tests followed. The proposal is to produce scripts that generate profiles and similar properties for a certain number of showers, compare these profiles and numbers and in case of large discrepancies forward them to the corresponding experts. Nikos will try to setup a branch with scripts he developed for the radio branch (cf. issue 520).

Lukas asked the maintainers of modules producing tables to create some tool that generates these tables if possible, thus making it easier to package them. If that is not possible, tables (such as those produced by PROPOSAL, which depend on the environment) should not be written to the install directory, which in a cluster environment is typically not writable.