[Rivet] Rivet 2 numerical validation survey complete... next steps to release

[Andy Buckley]

Ok, thanks! Hope they are in a good enough state. I expect there will
still be a number of discrepancies, but hopefully a more manageable
number this time.

Andy


On 25/07/13 12:57, David Grellscheid wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> I'll get the comparisons running. It'll be the current trunks as of the
> moment when I use them. :-)
> 
>   David
> 
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> 
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> On 24/07/13 21:58, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> Hi all, particularly Hendrik and David,
>>
>> I've just blasted through the remaining items flagged up as numerical
>> mismatch issues between Rivet2 with YODA and Rivet1 with AIDA... noting
>> that it's not only the histogramming that's changed.
>>
>> In several cases the problem really looks to be on the AIDA side, e.g.
>> bins in output histos that don't exist in the AIDA reference. In quite a
>> few cases there were Rivet2/YODA issues to fix (which I've hopefully
>> done), mostly to do with our change to the bookScatter2D behaviour (it
>> doesn't create a set of zeroed points with x values+errs based on the
>> ref data anymore, after much discussion.) And there are a bunch where I
>> really don't know where the errors can have come from: typically cases
>> where there are *zero* bins in the output, and the code *really* looks
>> like there have to be some.
>>
>> So we'll need to do another run of the Rivet2+YODA validation jobs based
>> on the current trunks of both Rivet and YODA: David, can you set those
>> running? And please have a look in the rivet/private/yodadiff hg repo to
>> see my comments on the datasets I checked.
>>
>> It'd be *really* nice to get our new releases of Rivet and YODA out in
>> the next couple of weeks. Always very hard to keep things moving when
>> we're not in the same place and able to work *together*, but a bit of a
>> push now to *finally* get this release out will be a big relief (for me
>> at least) and free us up to work on more creative / enhancement
>> developments :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
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