2002 Scheduling Meeting

Attendance: Joanne Bogart, Toby Burnett, Richard Dubois, Marco Frailis, Riccardo Giannitrapani, Hans Mayer-Hasselwander, Leon Rochester, Alex S, Tracy Usher, Karl Young

Monte Carlo

•  McParticle - design decision reached.  Toby will implement the class and Riccardo & Marco will fill the McParticles and put them on the TDS.
•  McPositionHitCol - hits are stored in a vector, sorted by id (NOTE: the hit TKR strips within the vector are not necessarily sorted) 
• detModel upgrades - 1 week 
• GismoGenerator - 1 day Toby Upgrade to handle additional Monte Carlo support is not in the critical path. In fact, this task has been given very low priority.
• G4Generator - 1 week Riccardo and Marco **** what is involved here? **** 
• instrument - 1 day Toby remove digitization and provide interface to detModel for geometry information 
• TkrRecon - Tracy, Leon, Toby remove GeometrySvc dependency and use the geometry information through the instrument interface 
• McIntegratingHit - 1 week Riccardo and Marco Input from the CAL group will be obtained before implementation

In 2 weeks, Riccardo and Marco will complete their upgrades for the MonteCarlo data and the G4Generator package.

Digitization 

• CalDigi - Richard will contact Sacha concerning the status of CalDigi. 
• TkrDigi - Bari's TKR digi algorithm will be added to the standard SAS CVS repository. Riccardo and Marco will obtain the code and forward to Tracy and Leon. Riccardo, Marco, Claudia will integrate the code and store it into the CVS repository, with guidance from Tracy and Leon. Support for the BTEM and BFEM data will be maintained. The mechanism for implementation needs to be discussed further - whether or not to use Gaudi's subalgorithm structure. 
• AcdDigi Heather will implement the AcdDigi algorithms agreed to by Steve and the ACD team at GSFC.

Reconstruction 

• CalRecon - Richard will contact the CAL group 
• TkrRecon - Transient Data Store (TDS) output needs to be settled. NOTE: release in May will be non-optimized code 1 week next tag of TkrRecon using the new GismoGenerator?? **** I never felt I got this straight **** 
• AcdRecon - will wait for the next release of TkrRecon in May, when the data objects stored on the TDS should be stable.

NTuple It was noted that the current ntuple structure is good enough for now. **** I'm still surprised about this... I thought we were going to do an audit of the ntuple contents **** The ntuple algorithms in the TkrRecon package will be moved - such as the MC ntuple algorithms.

• Gaudi Upgrade to the new Gaudi v9 will take place once the modifications for the Monte Carlo data are completed - 3 days Heather 
• Traudl will be asked evaluate the Atlas' StoreGate. 
• Persistent Data Store MC - new ROOT MC classes will be available the first week of March - Heather 
• Digi - need new ROOT Digi classes. Each subsystem has agreed to develop their own. TKR will be implemented by Tracy and Leon CAL will be implemented by Sacha ACD will be implemented by Heather These classes will be complete in one month's time. 
• Recon - new ROOT classes are waiting for design decisions by the DataStructuresTF. For now, ROOT I/O will be handled by simple algorithms, rather than a proper Persistency Service. This will be revisited in the late spring.

RandomNumberGeneratorSvc - Toby will contact LHcB to see how they are handling it.

ROOT upgrade to 3.02 We want to upgrade ROOT as we are writing the new ROOT classes. Gloria has evaluated the new version for the existing EventDisplay and it works just fine. We will have to coordinate tests for other portions of our software.

FITS I/O interface for upcoming I&T support Will use the standard CFITSIO library rather than the new ccfits, because ccfits does not yet compile on windows. Heather will create an interface package and provide cfitsio in the external library FTP area. Once the I&T group provides their FITS specification, work will begin on a FITS->ROOT converter for the digi data. Due August, 2002.

ROOT2IDL necessary for upcoming I&T support new version available August 2002

Calibration necessary for upcoming I&T support

•  Need to evaluate MySQL versus PostGreSQL It appears that PostGreSQL does not support windows well. Joanne will perform the evaluation and contact Tony Waite for details concerning PostGreSQL. 
• Setup DB on CentaurusA - Joanne will contact Pat Nolen 
• Determine Meta Data Setup tables for data 
• Write interface to DB in C++ Madhup will be helping Joanne with the implementation.

The subsystems are responsible for calibration algorithms. It was left undecided what those routines would be written in: C++? ROOT? Currently our calibration data is stored in ASCII files, in the future, will they be stored in ROOT?

How does the interface to Gaudi work? Will the calibration data be put on the TDS through the persistency service? Can we just use a home grown service that will ingest the data and make it generally available? This was left for further discussion.

Configuration Management - We will hold steady with gcc 2.91 We discussed using Gaudi as an external library need to provide mechanism to run debugger when necessary, by having both DEBUG and release versions. New version of VCMT developed by Karl and Alex in the next 2-3 months, using SOPE + PERL. ReleaseManager, the server version, available in 2 weeks.

Upgrade to use the standard units: mm and MeV Flight.xml uses the standard units (mm and MeV). It is unclear how and when other code will be upgraded. It was noted that the origin has been moved to the appropriate location, between the TKR and CAL.

Documentation - semi-monthly code documentation review and code walkthroughs to begin in April. Web doc review to begin immediately. Janani is currently going over our existing how-to pages. Her current status will be queried early next week.

**** Things we didn't address: ***** when/how will we upgrade to Geant 4.4?

H.Kelly Last Modified: 2002-03-06 09:41:59 -0800