Core Minutes 6/20/2006  

Present:    Joanne Bogart, Anders Borgland, Toby Burnett, Jim Chiang, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Richard Dubois, Dan Flath, Warren Focke, Riccardo Giannitrapani, Tom Glanzman, Navid Golpayegani, Heather Kelly, Michael Kuss, Bryson Lee, Chuck Patterson Igor Pavlin, Leon Rochester, Tracy Usher

• MRStudio: (Riccardo) He has committed a version to CVS with a gui. It doesn't yet do enough to be truly useful (so far principally CVS functions like checkout, update and commit), but it is enough for people to get an idea of how it will look and give Riccardo some feedback, particularly on the package tree, which is handled differently from MRvcmt. By default it operates in command-line mode. To get the gui, give the command

    MRStudio gui
  

  The question of using MRStudio to supplant glastpack came up. Riccardo is not familiar with glastpack, but since MRStudio command-line mode does almost everything that MRvcmt does, he believes it has all the functionality of glastpack.

• OnboardFilter and Flight Software: (Tracy) He has a version which builds on Windows as well as Linux. All signs so far indicate that it's fine and could be tagged for general use. The Flight Software part is in external libraries. They could be used by RM for Windows and Linux RHEL3 platforms. Tracy has a build package to make the libraries on Windows. JJ would prefer to be able to create the Windows version himself, but that is unlikely to happen any time soon.

  In order to get everything to build on Windows, some changes had to be made to Flight Software code; JJ will go back and retrofit to include these changes. Meanwhile, Flight Software has evolved; Tracy's build is not of the most recent Flight Software release.

• OnboardFilter and Reproducibility: (Toby) OBF output from full simulation is not entirely identical to what you get starting from digis. This may be for the same reason that (Zach claims) the trigger bits are not reproducible: not all of the CAL information needed is saved in the ROOT digi file. However the many OBF quantities Toby looked at were all bit-by-bit identical.
• Beamtest:
  • Pipeline: (Warren) He's making a clone of the SVAC commissioning pipeline task. Current roadblock has to do with complaints when merging output from concurrent jobs. The symptoms have a familiar sound; most likely he'll get past this one quickly. [In fact, as of this afternoon, he has. Pipeline task is ready. ed]
  • Ancillary Event calibrations: (Joanne) has been waiting for information about calibrations of devices other than the tagger. [Was received by meetings' end, at which time I discovered an earlier relevant email which had been misplaced. In any event, I've got no excuse now!]
  • Ancillary Event digi/recon restructuring: (Heather) It's coming along. The four new packages AdfEvent (TDS classes for raw data read from binary file), AncillaryDataEvent (TDS digis), AdfReader (reads binary input file) and AncillaryDataUtil which are done or near done for this round, plus AncillaryDataRecon, so far just stubs. (Leon) However the original single package did have some recon code. (Heather) will focus on digis.

    Ric has a version of the input data in Ldf which, after a certain amount of work, we could use rather than the separate binary file. There seems to be no consensus yet on which is preferred.

  • Socket connection: (Heather) will return to this once she finishes up digi reading and writing, hopefully today.
  • Simulation runs: (Richard) Starting on PS configurations now, including a couple extra types of runs to measure protons —> neutrals and to examine interactions in the blanket.
  • Final workshop: is June 28–30, Wednesday–Friday of next week.

EVO note: (Joanne) It's difficult to prove, but my reception seems choppier with EVO than with VRVS.

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