LHCb Core Software Meeting
Date and Location
15. November 2006
10:00 - 11:30
CERN (2-R-030)
Attendees
Andres,
Florence,
Gloria,
Hubert,
Joel,
Juan,
Marco Ca.,
Marco Cl. (minutes),
Markus,
Matt,
Nick (phone),
Olivier,
Philippe,
Thomas
Subjects
News
- Marco Ca.: During IT-LHCb meeting on Friday it was said that lxplus should be switched soon to slc4_amd64_gcc34. Anyway it is possible to build slc4_ia32 binaries on slc4_amd64 with the compiler option -m32. Marco Ca. will test the possible combinations
to allows us to decide how to proceed.
- CASTORLHCB is now again featuring the version 2.1.1-4 of CASTOR server.
- News about the problems with the dictionaries: the fix is in the CVS of ROOT (according to Stefan). We will have to rebuild Gaudi.
Software Releases
Gaudi (Hubert)
- Working on v19r0. Noticed that ApplicationMgr::terminate() was not called on SUCCESS. The fix will affect log files (one extra line).
LHCb, Boole, Brunel (Marco Ca.)
- Released for DC06 pre-production
- Started a new Valgrind campaign
- Tracking
- DAQEvent
- PropertyMgr finalize not called always
Gauss (Gloria)
- Released on Tuesday, currently in production (new features are disabled by default for DC06)
- more generators
- more RICH
DaVinci (Juan)
- New version almost ready in DEV.
- Problems with dictionaries and Loki. Under investigation with Vanya and Stefan.
Round Table
- Joel
- Production running with all new pieces. testing reconstruction and stripping.
- Thomas
- Ulrich Kerzel will present about the usage of microDST instead of n-tuples for user analysis
- Florence
- When do we start using the install area? We agreed to start after DC06 is started.
- Andres
- Progressing on the new DataStreamTool.
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MarcoClemencic - 21 Nov 2006