2013.06.03 - Software workshop

Location: CEBAF Center, room L210A (old computer center area on 2nd floor)

Participants

Sho Uemura
Matt Graham
Omar Moreno
Maurik Holtrop
Jeremy McCormick
Tim Nelson
Scott Kaneta
Sarah Phillips
Raphael Dupre
Andrea Celentano
Per Hansson Adrian

Schedule

• 10:00 - Overview - Sho, 20+5m
  • List the HPS software tools
  • To-do list - both broad topics and specific tasks we need help on
  • Administrivia - subgroups, meetings
  • Schedule
• 10:25 - Release schedule, request tracker - Jeremy, 10+5m
  • Where to get latest releases and change logs
  • Who/where to ask in case of trouble - mailing list, JIRA, Confluence docs
• 10:40 - DSTs - Omar, 20+5m
  • How to read+analyze a reconstructed LCIO file using ROOT
  • How to read+analyze a ROOT tree
• 11:05 - Data availability and production - Sho, 15+5m
  • Where to get test run data (raw and recon)
  • Where to get MC data
  • What MC samples are available and what is planned
• 11:25 - Monitoring - Jeremy, 20+5m
  • Description of hps-java monitoring tools (what types of monitoring should be done in hps-java, what might better be done using other tools)
  • How to write and test a monitoring driver
  • Some discussion of other monitoring data that could be added to the event stream? (trigger bits, scalers, etc. - what EVIO format might be used, how this would be used for monitoring)
• 11:50 - Intro to analysis - Matt, 15+5m
  • LCSim analysis (drivers and AIDA)
  • ROOT analysis (TMVA, RooFit)

Afternoon: work session/breakouts