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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>This was a Software meeting with one topic: to discuss the items on the<br />
[http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/Software_tasks.php software task list].<br />
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Below ae the minutes which can also be found at http://www.jlab.org/~davidl/HallD/Minutes/ .<br />
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In attendance:<br />
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David L., Elliott W. Simon T., Matt S., Richard J.,<br />
Nikolay, K., Zisis P., Rafael H., Blake L.<br />
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The meeting agenda is posted on the Wiki at:<br />
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http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/wiki/index.php/July_10%2C2006<br />
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Agenda:<br />
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1 Review Software Task list<br />
2 AOT<br />
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It was suggested that we add a discussion of Software Coding<br />
Conventions to the agenda. In the end though we ran over time<br />
and decided to delay that until the next meeting.<br />
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Future meeting suggestions:<br />
- Smart Pointers<br />
- BCAL beamtest simulations<br />
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Review Software Task list<br />
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The software task list can be found at:<br />
http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/Software_tasks.php<br />
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The entire software task list was reviewed. Some highlights<br />
from the discussions follow:<br />
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HDGeant: A new document was recently added to the DocDB <br />
summarizing the current state of the detector geometry as<br />
defined to HDGeant. All systems except possibly the TOF<br />
and UPV need to be reviewed and updated by the persons<br />
responsible for each subsystem. Richard noted that he knows<br />
of at least a few differences between the geometry currently<br />
in HDGeant and the baseline design. He also noted that the<br />
current geometry is almost certainly an underestimate of<br />
the amount of material in the detector. This will be important<br />
to get realistic background rates from HDGeant.<br />
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HDDM: Richard noted that work is underway on a new C++,<br />
stream oriented wrapper for HDDM that includes features<br />
such as compression/decompression. <br />
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HDDS: Essentially stable now. It now has the ability to<br />
turn off magnetic field in the BCAL (for example) to<br />
speed up processing time. There was some discussion about<br />
how CLAS12 is still strongly considering adopting it. They<br />
are looking at the possibility of specifying hits read-out<br />
in XML as well so one does not need to write accompanying<br />
code with changes to the geometry. We agreed that we will<br />
wait to see what they come up with and then decide if it<br />
will be useful for us.<br />
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Web Portal: Zisis reported that they are starting to work<br />
on upgrading the portal from a patched version 5 to version<br />
7. Richard asked about certificate support and Zisis said it<br />
did have one standard in v5, but isn't sure what v7 offers.<br />
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GRID: Richard has now installed his OpenShop package on<br />
clusters at Regina, Indiana, FSU and UConn. It can be used<br />
by remote sites to submit simulation jobs. OpenShop keeps<br />
a record of the jobs run and allows access to them from<br />
other users. Interested persons should contact Richard about<br />
getting a certificate and learning how to use it.<br />
Matt S. reminded us about the e-mail sent out a few weeks<br />
ago about the grant program "Physics in the Information<br />
Frontiers". He suggested we should put a proposal together<br />
for developing software for doing distributed simulations<br />
across remote clusters. The proposal would involve maily<br />
manpower.<br />
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Calibration Database: Nikolay reported that he has been<br />
working on this and will present what he's done in 2 weeks.<br />
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BCAL reconstruction: Work is stalled on this in order to<br />
focus on the beam test.<br />
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BCAL Simulations: The simulation of the BCAL beam test<br />
continues to be refined with things like the CLAS target<br />
being added. Blake L. is doing several simulations with<br />
the various comfigurations of the BCAL module during the<br />
test. He will present something at the next meeting (in<br />
two weeks).<br />
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Cherenkov: This is stalled completely. Richard noted that<br />
he should get at least a 3 month "heads up" to incorporate<br />
a Cherenkov detector into the simulation before anyone<br />
should expect to use it.<br />
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FCAL: Matt S. reported that he is working to finalize on<br />
a channel count. He and Richard will communicate offline<br />
to discuss the possibility of porting Richard's Rad-Phi<br />
C++ reconstruction code for the FCAL.<br />
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FDC: Work on the reconstruction software has stopped with<br />
the departure of Craig B. Simon has done some research on<br />
reconstruction techniques and is well positioned to serve<br />
in an advisory role if a person can be found to write the<br />
code.<br />
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TOF: Matt S. reported that they still have some cosmic tests<br />
to do. Indiana plans to try and locate a graduate student<br />
to work on the code under Ryan Mitchell's guidance.<br />
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Trigger Simulation: This is now considered an orphan project.<br />
David L. agreed to discuss this with Dave Doughty the next<br />
time he saw him.<br />
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--- Suggested changes to Software task list page ---<br />
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Background simulations: Richard has recently done some<br />
simulations of the backgrounds in the tagger building<br />
due to the electron beam dump. The background rates<br />
in the GlueX detector need to be studied with the more<br />
realistic magnetic field map and a geometry that contains <br />
more materials. This is one of our top priorities.<br />
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Add Elog item with Greg Riccardi as contact.</div>Davidl