Hall-D Software Meeting  Nov. 9, 2004

Attendees: Paul E., Richard J., Ed B., David L.
  , Grep R., Simon T., Ryan M., Elliott W.

Agenda:
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1. Brief report on SC2004            Zisis P.
2. Ridin' around with the top down   David L.
3. Gaudi/CMT/Pakman                  Ed B.

1. Zisis gave a brief report on the Super Computing 2004
   conference in Pittsburg he attended last week. The main
	ideas he walked away with were:
	-Virtual Data
	-GRID is not yet a turn-key system
	-GRID and Web services are converging toward WSRS
	
	He will give a more detailed report next week.
	
2. Dave gave a presentation on how a "top-down" design
   naturally leads to "pull-style" analysis framework.
	(See his slides at: 
	http://www.jlab.org/~davidl/HallD).
	The DANA framework (written by Dave for Hall-D) was 
	presented. The framework is the same as was presented
	before except it has been extended to use data factories
	which implement the pull-style framework.


3. Ed has been looking into the GAUDI framework a little.
   Before getting too deep into GAUDI itself, he started
	looking at the CMT package manager with GAUDI uses. He
	was actually drawn to a more advanced project called 
	Pacman. The software can help with release management
	including both internal and external libraries. Ed will
	continue looking into GAUDI and will report on it at a
	later meeting.