Jeremy McCormick's ToDo List

Event Generation

• WHIZARD
  • setup on SLAC PRJ area
  • generate new files for GeV = 350, 500, 1000 w/ TB
• HERWIG
  • setup on SLAC PRJ area
• apply Pandora patches to PandoraPythia in CVS

Sim Apps and Maintenance

• local MySQL install for Mokka batch jobs using lsf
• Cygwin builds use "-mno-cygwin" for standalone binaries
• setup BDSim at SLAC

Sim Jobs

• SLIC
  • rangecut, steplen investigations with RC
  • ILC500 / 1000 jobs with SDJan03, SDFeb05 detectors
• performance evaluation
  • SLIC vs. LCDG4
• SiD, GLD, D11 comparison
  • tubs models
  • Pflow
  • Eres

GDML

• AGDD features
  • xi:include
  • arrays
  • iterators
• Java bindings
• formal extension mechanism
• merging different GDML files into one logical file (Java)
• common materials, elements include file (mostly for compact description)

Compact Detectors and GeomConverter

• synchronize LCDetectors with lcsim.org/detectors
• D11
  • model D11 in Mokka DB
• GLD
  • prim constants from JLC*ParameterList files in JUPITER source
• utilities
  • info "extrapolator" to make super-compact description in HTML (use XSLT)
• Norman's requests
  1. verbatim include or reference to GDML for BDS, MDI system and supports
  2. abstract layering engine
  3. "robustify" nonprojective segmentation
• Tony's requests
  1. non-cylindrical shapes demo
  2. interface between org.lcsim and compact
  3. schema-fy compact description where possible
  4. new SDJan03 matching LCDG4's
  5. SiD repr w/ cylinders
  6. graphical repr of zip resources (constants, geo, etc.)
• process compact description with stylesheet and produce
  1. beam and side views in SVG
  2. subdetectors w/ list of contants like slice thicknesses, num layers
  3. inlined comments

Other Detector Components

• MDI-BDS system

Reconstruction

• NonprojectiveCylinder segmentation support (w/ GL)
• continue discussions on common geo API with TJ, NG, GL, TB, FG, et al.
• RCP file support with processor name as Java class w/o org.lcsim
  • parameters with INI, attributes file, etc
  • simple list of processors and parameters
  • analysis manager loads the processors by org.lcsim.(package).(classname)
  • could be Python code
• materials database (see online NIST data)
  • format could be GDML, another XML format, flat file, or database

JAS3

• ipython support via Jython
• improve windowing
  • minimize, maximize
• improve performance
• class browser
• HTML help
• customizable palettes of buttons rather than menus
• plugins (services, really!)
  • particle properties (YAPPI?)
  • materials
  • Geo / DD

Docs and WWW

• www-lcsim
  • www.lcsim.org in sync w/ CVS
  • talk with TJ and NG about cleanup, autoupdate method, etc.
• docbook
  • working XML, XSLT, FOP toolchain

Admin and MCPrj

• create "mcprj" CVS module (help from TJ)
• setup SLIC at NICADD for batch jobs

Miscellaneous

• file format utilities (probably in Java)
  • actions
    • dump
    • concat
    • split
    • select records by criteria or number
    • transform records by some algorithm
    • convert records to another format by some algorithm
  • formats
    • LCIO
    • StdHep
    • ASCII/Tuples
    • Others?
• move NICADD ~jeremy/ index/subpages to Confluence