Today we continued with the to-do lists items previously posted. I marked all the to-do list items that have been completed with green and a slash. Note that I have also added a new item at the bottom of the to-do list.

Today's Tasks

Julie: Write bash practice assignment (almost done!)

Evelyn, Mitchell, Eliot, Ryan: Make progress on the "Learn the Command Line" course on Code Academy. (Mitchell is done, and the others are close.)

Leo: Start gathering information for the "physics of antennas" lecture series! Note: Remember that Leo wants to be an educator, and would like us to find opportunities to work on "teaching" items. Most of the students don't have any background on how antennas work. He started learning about them and is going to do a lecture series 

Alex M: Make sure antenna scaling is made a variable in the bash script everywhere that it exists, start mass commenting all of the code so it reads as cleanly as the GA does. (Finished making the antenna scaling a variable. needs to be tested, but we waited forever for wall time)

Alex P: Fix hard-coded variables (done but tried to test it. Waited for wall time and never got it), and looked into ways to get around requesting an interactive job. For some reason, we don't need an interactive job to forward things like plots, but we do for the XF UI. We were trying to figure out why this is, and if there's a way to fix this. So far, no luck. 

AMY QUESION: Could we actually consider running on NASA computers? I think Alex P. found a way the NASA computing centers let you adjust for this issue, and it didn't work on OSC. If we end up not finding a solution with OSC, is it at all possible to have XF installed with NASA computing centers? (NOTE: I JUST ASKED ALEX FOR MORE DETAILS AND WILL ADD THEM HERE TOMORROW -- IE WEDNESDAY)

TO-DO List

The following is our coding to-do list:

1. Get our Ara sim error fixed (Alex, Julie) 

   1. It seems that if AraSim jobs are left to run while the user is away, it doesn't properly write one or more of the flags, and makes the loop get stuck at AraSim. We must then re-run from that state by manually editing the Save State text file.

   2. We are going to try to get XF to run at the command line so that we can submit it as a job. This would alleviate us using an interactive job. We *hope* this would fix the error since the user wouldn't be "gone" while utilizing a GPU in an interactive job. 

      1. Alex emailed XF to ask a few questions! Stay tuned!

2. Make Hardcoded directories variables

3. Make the following variables in the bash script:

   
   In xmacros/simulationPECmacroskeleton_prototype.txt (use sed command):

   Grid spacing=0.1
   Frequency= factor of n higher 
   This factor of "n" higher in frequency has to be the same as the Multiplier_factor in the roulette algorithm AND the same as GeoFactor in fitnessFunction_ARA_amy.cpp.
   
   
   

   In roulette_algirithm.cpp

   Length = 50cm/Multiplier_factor; 
   STD= 15cm/Multiplier_factor 
   Radius = 1.5cm/Multiplier_factor; 
   STD= 0.75cm/Multiplier_factor 
   
   Also the "Multiplier_factor" line 89.
   
   This "Multiplier_factor"has to be the same as the GeoFactor in fitnessFunction_ARA_amy.cpp AND the same as the factor higher in frequency in the xmacro.
   ​NOTE:THIS MUST BE RECOMPILED AFTER CHANGING.
   
   
   
   

   In fitnessFunction_ARA_amy.cpp:

   GeoFactor=2 
   This GeoFactor has to be the same as the Multiplier_factor in the roulette algorithm AND the same as the factor higher in frequency in the xmacro
   NOTE: THIS MUST BE RECOMPILED AFTER CHANGING.
   
   
   

4. Get rid of all code we are not using anymore.  

   1. Currently using: XF_loop_AraSeed.sh

      1. Look at what items are being called in here, and remove old versions such as XF_loop_Prototype.sh, XF_loop_Functionized.sh, and the related scripts. 

      2. These can temporarily moved to on "old code" directory and we can delete once we finalize the loop. 

5. Turn tournament on in the GA. 

6. Parallelize the AraActualBicone job.

   1. The AraSim run in Gen 0 that gets Veff for the ARA actual bicone input file is not currently being seeded.

7. Comment code thoroughly 

   1. The Gen alg is commented so thorougly that it can read like a book. We want this with ALL of our code; it will help all the less familiar people get comfortable.