Calling all instrument scientists!
I'm looking for volunteers to give tours of their science area or instrument to our Scientific Software Engineers and Software Scientists in Mantid. This is an opportunity for them to gain a greater understanding about what you do which will hopefully help us with developing Mantid for ISIS.
Initially we are looking for volunteers for the 21st and 23rd May. We are hoping to run these again so if these dates don't work for you but you would be interested future sessions then let me know.
If you are free and want to do this there is a short form for you to fill in to express your interest - https://forms.office.com/e/XnkggmCSCT .
Many thanks
Sarah Foxley
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Dear Colleagues,
At the Mantid Programme Board yesterday it was noted that the Epic to implement multiple bounce points in the Mantid geometry framework was still lacking an owner. Without an owner the work will not be considered further.
There is also a suggestion that the case of scanning instruments should be a separate Epic. That would then also require a scientific owner.
If you would like to volunteer for one or other (or both!) of these, please contact Sarah Foxley asap. The next MPB Epics Discussion will be in around 6-8 weeks.
Many thanks,
Steve
On behalf of the MPB
From: Dalgliesh, Robert (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <robert.dalgliesh(a)stfc.ac.uk>
Sent: 27 November 2023 09:29
To: Manuel, Pascal (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <pascal.manuel(a)stfc.ac.uk>
Cc: Schomann, Silke (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <silke.schomann(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Skoda, Maximilian (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <maximilian.skoda(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Kinane, Christy (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <christy.kinane(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Le, Duc (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <duc.le(a)stfc.ac.uk>; King, Stephen (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <stephen.king(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Welbourn, Becky (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <becky.welbourn(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Mukhopadhyay, Sanghamitra (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <sanghamitra.mukhopadhyay(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Hampson, Thomas (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <thomas.hampson(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Waite, Richard (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <richard.waite(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Markvardsen, Anders (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <anders.markvardsen(a)stfc.ac.uk>; Foxley, Sarah (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <sarah.foxley(a)stfc.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: geometry in mantid
Thanks Pas,
Given the greater complexity of the reflectometry requirements I think this should be owned by one of the NR team.
We can feed in the needs of SANS as needed.
Rob
On 26 Nov 2023, at 15:21, Manuel, Pascal (STFC,RAL,ISIS) <pascal.manuel(a)stfc.ac.uk<mailto:pascal.manuel@stfc.ac.uk>> wrote:
Dear all,
Thank you for joining this workshop back in May where we discussed various ways to implement complex geometries within mantid and the advantages and limitations of the virtual source idea.
If you are still interested in implementing complex geometries within mantid, we would need to create an EPIC to be in line with the new way of capturing and prioritizing requirements. Each EPIC needs an "owner" from the scientific side. It is basically a ~1-2 page document highlighting the benefits of the work to ISIS in general and also outlining some foreseen solutions so it can be prioritized between all the requests put in to mantid that are not BAU.
If any of the scientists on this list would like to volunteer, please drop me a line.
Best,
P
Dear all,
One of the actions on me from the last meeting was to provide an update on the Nexus work that ORNL are doing.
For 6.10 they are planning to undertake a new implementation of LoadEventNexus. This was found to be the slowest step in many of their workflows. Investigation of this algorithm found it was spending much of its time doing other things than reading from disk. The suggested solution is to move away from the current method of allocating all the events and then reusing code for sorting and compressing. Instead they plan to create a histogram whilst reading through events and then converting that data to an EventList.
There will be instances where this new method will not be used:
- Small event files
- Files with period data
- Files with weighted events
There is much more detail about their plans here - https://github.com/mantidproject/mantid/issues/36594 .
Let me know if you have any questions about this and I will follow up with Pete at ORNL.
All the best
Sarah
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Hi All,
Seems this is a good time, according to the Doodle Poll
The Mantid Epics board can be found here: https://isisneutronmuon.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/SS/boards/5
Many thanks,
Jonathan
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Dear all,
We are progressing with drafting two epics to improve Nexus loading (main project and an enabler project) with the hope of putting them up for review at the next meeting in February. For the main epic we need key stakeholders from the different science groups. At the moment Rob has listed board members. However I wondered if there were any others he could approach instead? I'm more than happy if you all feel you would be appropriate stakeholders but wanted to make sure before we finish drafting this one.
For reference this is the main epic that I'm needing stakeholders for - https://isisneutronmuon.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/SS/boards/5?…
For info - both of the epics are a bit more fully formed than when Pas looked last week. Unfortunately Rob's initial attempts to upload the information did not work! All resolved now though.
Please could you let me know of any alternative/additional stakeholders by 12th January?
Thanks
Sarah
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Dear all,
Further to our recent conversations about Error Reporter I wanted to update you with a piece of work we have done. As a temporary measure it will be mandatory to include an e-mail address in the error report. It will only be in versions of Mantid from tomorrow onwards (so the next nightly to be published and v6.9 onwards). Our privacy policy has also been updated in line with these changes.
This is only intended as a stop gap measure to enable support to better respond to error reports. A more considered, long-term solution will be provided through the Epic which should be up for review in February.
If anyone has any queries about being asked for contact details please can they e-mail mantid-help(a)mantidproject.org<mailto:mantid-help@mantidproject.org> .
Many thanks
Sarah
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Hi All,
Seems this is a good time, according to the Doodle Poll
The Mantid Epics board can be found here: https://isisneutronmuon.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/SS/boards/5
Many thanks,
Jonathan
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