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Software Meeting Minutes
Hi All,
These are some notes I took at the software meeting on May 18th,
but never sent out.
-Dave
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Hall-D Weekly Software meeting May 18,2004
Attendees: Elliott W., Sandy P., Ed B., David L., Richard J.(on phone)
Ryan M.(on phone), Mark Ito(part way through)
EB: Review of topics to be discussed at upcoming collaboration
meeting.
RM: Interested in developing code/algorithms for Particle ID.
EW: Summer student coming this summer. Plan is to have him look
at slow controls.
EB: XML browsers?
RJ: XSLT works well. Provides custom views.
EB: Would like a tool for comparing two XML formatted outputs.
RJ: Working on getting hdds with MCFast.
EB: Works for me with MCFast5.2
RJ: Got a note from Curtis which said 5.2 may not be compatible.
though 5.1 is.
EB: Modular analysis framework.
DL: Perhaps use dynamically linked objects and a very generic
main executable.
DL: What about directory structure for the code.
EW: First must discuss the code development model. Free-for-all
vs. gatekeeper.
EB: We should have a test suite to test changes.
EB: Basic analysis framework needs to be understood first.
EW: Two questions: 1.How do you want it to look like in the end
2. How you get there.
RJ: Description of the data representation in memory via hdds.
EB: We should create a flow chart for a specific type of events.
RJ: Tracks->Clusters->Matching->PID
RJ: Maybe we should look for an existing DC tracking package
rather than writing everything from scratch.
EW: Some general packages exist.
RJ: Should look at crystal barrel for cluster finding.
EW: Generic questions: Obsolete products - Philosophical vs. specifics
of implementations.
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David Lawrence Ph.D.
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