Core Minutes 5/23/2006
Present: Joanne Bogart,
Toby Burnett, David Chamont,
Richard Dubois, Warren Focke,
Riccardo Giannitrapani, Tom Glanzman, Navid Golpayegani,
Heather Kelly, David Landriu, Francesco Longo, Michael Kuss,
Igor Pavlin, James Peachey, Leon Rochester, Tom Stephens
- MRStudio: See the
latest report. Core functionality is all there on Windows and close
on Linux: just need to implement make. Riccardo hopes to get to
this before the end of the week, but definitely by next Core meeting.
New features include online help and support for configuration files.
This makes it easy to use MRStudio with different settings. (Toby) Is
indentation in configurations significant, as it is in Python? (Riccardo)
No. The punctuation and keywords are what matter.
(Richard) For Navid: any estimate on how much work it would be to
convert RM to use MRStudio? (Navid) Hasn't had a chance to look at it, and
is not sure this is the right way to go since MRStudio might not support
all the functions RM currently needs for its output. (Richard) There would
be great benefit if everyone (human users, via gui and via command line,
and RM) all used the same build tools. If MRStudio doesn't provide all the
services RM needs, they can be added.
- RM: (Navid)
- There has been a problem with ScienceTools LATEST: the script creating the
requirements file is not quite doing the right thing. For now he just
fixed the requirements file itself.
- A tag for Redhat Release 4, gcc 3.4 is almost ready to go. SCS needs to
install a couple system libraries; then it should be possible to build
ScienceTools. GlastRelease will take longer because some external libraries
haven't been built in this configuration yet, including Gaudi.
- The Mac builds are held up because the LSF Macs don't have readline
installed.
- Branch tags have been re-enabled now that cmtcvs plug-in has been
fixed.
- (Richard)SLAC Windows support has owned up to giving us substandard
infrastructure: server, network access, etc. which they now intend to
fix. This should have a noticeable effect on Windows RM performance.
- GlastRelease: (Toby)
GR v9r4 doesn't work with FRED; it seems to hang before any events
come out. (Heather) sees a somewhat different symptom. After just a
couple events there is a crash somewhere in Heprep. (Toby) Need v9r5
for Windows since there is a compile failure for AcdRecon in v9r4, Windows
only.
(Richard) Bill did some background studies with 2 million events
created with v9r4, which has updated geometry (ACD curved tiles; thicker
blanket with crown). He saw 14 events (a large number relative to
this small sample) which don't look good and need to be understood.
- Onboard Filter: (Richard for Tracy)
Tracy has been
working on getting v3 to work on Windows. He is just about there: it
now builds and runs. Performance validation will be completed next week
when JJ returns from vacation. Ultimately Tracy would like to turn
Onboard Filter into an external library with its own build package.
- Beamtest:
(Richard) Schedule
The PS accelerator at CERN is broken. They're estimating
6 weeks to fix it; no telling yet what the revised schedule will be. Other
customers have priority over us. CERN doesn't like to run in the winter
since that's when their power costs are the highest.
(Francesco) Software
- A couple bugs in the simulation have been fixed.
- Need to simulate beamline components upstream of CU
- In Pisa a group has formed to figure out how to get digis
into Gleam. See the AncillaryEvent package.
- (Richard) Are we adding the table to the simulation?
(Francesco) Yes, we expect to add it when we have more information.
- (Heather) Socket connection work is stalled at the moment, awaiting
responses from Ric, who is at NRL with the LAT.
J. Bogart, Last Modified:
01-Jun-2010 15:45:17 -0700
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