LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

16 May 2007
10:30 - 12:30
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Hubert, Marco Cl. (minutes), Markus, Matt, Nick (phone), Olivier Callot, Olivier Dechamps, Philippe, Thomas

Apologies

Gloria, Marco Ca.

Subjects

News

No relevant news to be reported.

Software Releases

Gaudi (Hubert and Marco Cl.)

• Working on the patched to be applied fog Gaudi v19r4
  • patch #1127: Extend ETC to store arbitrary objects, as long as a dictionary is available (Vanya)
  • patch #1126: Multiple patch by Vanya
  • patch #1150: Improvements to AlgErrAuditor (Atlas)
  • patch #1130: Added update handler to THistSvc (Atlas)
  • patch #1104: Fix to message service reports (Atlas)
  • patch #1129: Added outputLevel() to Auditor
  • patch #1136: Automatic registration of histograms to the monitoring service for tools
  • patch #1162: Fixed a bug in option parsing + improvements in option print-out (Vanya)
• Removed all usages of ApplicationMgr.DLLs (not needed anymore).

LHCb, Boole, Brunel

Matt is waiting for a release of Brunel. Marco Cl. would like to use the new Gaudi (which implies LCG_51) to access new features in CORAL. If Marco Cl. and Hubert manage to have a release of Gaudi early next week, it will be fine.

Gauss (Hubert for Gloria)

• Gloria is preparing a DC06 release with new event types for the end of the week.

Round Table

Hubert

Released new version of Bender

Philippe

Few issues have been raised during the software week:

• Usage of Python options: to be investigated
• Merge of text output (log) files in Ganga for a splitted job

Practice Talk

LHCb [computing] Strategy (Nick)

The preliminary version of the presentation is attached to the agenda.

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-- MarcoClemencic - 21 May 2007