Admin updates

This is a minor release, with updates mainly involving the admin part.
If you want to see actual changes:
v2.1.2...v2.1.3

Only one user-side change, following a PR by @bdalena: #65

Minor Updates

USER CHANGES

• Fixing a bug in dot_profile (sixdeskSetQueue function) in recognising nextweek as possible HTCondor queue. This queue was mis-typed in the list of recognised queues. Thanks to D.Mirarchi for reporting the bug. PR #59 by @amereghe
• Changing the default behavior of run_six.sh. Currently, before generating inputs or checking them or submitting jobs, run_six.sh checks by default that the point has not been already submitted or a result is present. Previously, these three operations were done no matter the status of the folder. Thanks to F.V.D.Veken for asking for the change. - PR #59 by @amereghe

MINOR CHANGES

None

ADMIN CHANGES

• improvement in plotting scripts - including recent activities limited to last 45d. PR #57 by @amereghe via @sixtadm
• status of studies - PR #52 by @amereghe
• traffic light + spooling to EOS - PR #58 by @amereghe via @sixtadm
• validator:
  • fixed handling of tasks with abnormal names - PR #54 by @amereghe;
  • flagging second result as runtime outlier - PR #56 by @amereghe.

minor updates

USER CHANGES

• added a very simple README.md file - thanks to R. De Maria - commit ;
• possibility to have an empty sysenv (though it must still be present) - PR #48 (by X. Lu). This is a preliminary step before dropping sysenv completely;
• updated minor big in app version - PR #50 by A. Mereghetti;

MINOR CHANGES

• all calls to awk have been changed into calls to gawk. This was found to be necessary as, when running SixDesk on a local UBUNTU machine, an alias to mawk was in place, requiring minor syntax differences. Thanks for F. Van Der Veken for signalling the issue. Fixed by PR #48 (by X. Lu);
• replaced all tab chars in bash script with actual whitespaces - PR #48 (by X. Lu);
• added a call to aklog after kinit (-R) - even though not strictly necessary, this better propagates the renewed kerberos token to AFS; relevant for submission from local machine. Thanks for F. Van Der Veken for signalling the issue. Fixed by PR #48 (by X. Lu);

ADMIN CHANGES

• updated plotting scripts for monitoring BOINC activity - PR #49 (by sixtadm);:
  • proper scaling of queueing sixtrack tasks; at the same time, improved xtics;
  • increased upper range of TFLOPs;
  • added dalena and mischenk to monitored users;
  • fixed scaling of cumulative submitted/assimilated WUs;

version pinning in BOINC + additional sixtrack input files

USER CHANGES

• the user can provide the sixtrack jobs with additional files, either created by MADX or provided by the user. These files are also used in one-turn jobs - if not necessary, this step can be used also as a final check of consistency of the input files. The manual has been updated accordingly;
• BOINC has been given version pinning capability. Hence, the user can ask a specific sixtrack version via an appropriate variable in sysenv. The manual has been updated accordingly;
• the fort.3.local is also used in one-turn jobs;
• the template sixdeskenv has been updated in bunch charge and emittance to comply with HL-LHC parameters (template .mask file is an HL-LHC one);

ADMIN CHANGES

• crontab jobs on BOINC server have been harmonised, such that they differ only by appname and related variables; in addition, calls to crontab jobs creating work on BOINC have an upper limit of 3k WUs (previously: 1k) per study per call. A script for commuting changes between sixtrack and sixtracktest apps has been added;
• scripts monitoring the activity on BOINC have been made compliant with their deployment by the sixtadm account and no longer by amereghe;
• a script for commuting sixtrack and sixtracktest app names in relevant scripts has been added;

Bug Fixes

Various bug fixes (see issue #25 and pull request #26 ):

• fixing representation of integers in dir names for amplitude and angle -- no longer 5. or 5.0
  • thanks to JBarranco for pointing this out;
• fixing bug in run_six.sh when selecting only angles close to 90 degs -- bug was adding not requested angles with incomplete input infos;
  • thanks to EMcLean for pointing this out;

In addition (see pull request #27):

• bug fix in overriding platform from terminal line command (i.e. -p option);

External scans

merging pull request #20
See comments in pull request for change logs.

getting in synch with new BOINC server

merging pull request #19
See comments in pull request for change logs.

New SixDesk scripts

Merging pull request #18
New SixDesk scripts, after >1.5y of intense work and development.

Updating paths/names to current release / test release of sixtrack

merging pull request #17

improvements in handling the xing angle

merging pull request #11