LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

October 31, 2007
10:30 - 12:15
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Gloria, Hubert, Juan, Marco Ca., Marco Cl. (minutes), Markus, Patrick (EVO), Thomas

Subjects

News

• LCG 53e has been released
  • bug-fix version of ROOT (5.14.00i)
  • new externals
    • fastjet 2.1.0
    • ktjet 1.08
• LGC 53f will be released soon with bug-fixes in COOL and CORAL. It will also be the first release built by SPI (Stefan).
  
  • CORAL: Fixes in the FronTier client
  • COOL: added the possibility of switching off the SEAL signal handler (apparently causing stuck jobs on the grid when a segfault occurs) We agreed to pick it up when available (skip 53e).
• Application Area Meeting in the afternoon
• (Hubert) SLC3 officially dismissed.
  Marco Ca.: during the IT-LHCb meeting we have been asked how long we need lxbuild029 (SLC3).

Software Releases

Gaudi (Hubert, Marco Cl.)

• Pere reorganized GaudiPython. Instead of import gaudimodule, now it is import GaudiPython. Old scripts still work but print a deprecation warning.
• Patch #1469 by Markus has been applied (improve method getService in PersistencySvc).
• Many changes in python job options (by Marco Cl.)
  • Old option file parser for python job options rewritten to allow inclusion of .py and .pkl files in .opts (if used via gaudirun.py).
  • Moved the command line option logic into the scripts gaudirun.py (instead of the imported module).
  • Added a print-out that can be evaluated in Python to obtain a dictionary containing the configuration (one entry per Configurable, which is a dictionary with an entry per Property) to be used by Ganga.

LHCb, Boole, Brunel (Marco Ca.)

• LHCb builds on OSX (using LCG 53f)
• New version of Brunel (v31r11) in DEV with bug-fixes needed in production.
• Brunel v32r1 ready, waiting for new SQLDDDB (with changes for Muon).

Gauss (Gloria)

• Gauss v30r4 released some time ago. Partial Win32 build (particle gun is the only available generator).
• A patched version of Geant4 8.3 with some fixes is available.
• PYTHIA 1 is ready to be tested. A presentation will be made (in a Tuesday meeting).

OnLine (Markus)

• A new version of OnLine has been released (with bug-fixes) based on LHCb v23r0.

DaVinci (Juan)

• Phys and Analysis ready (on LHCb v22r10).
• Waiting for Rec v4r11 (which is ready to be built).

HLT (Patrick)

• A new version released
• v2r0 will use the new Tracking Framework
• For the CD for benchmarking, we will need a v1r11, with changes in L0 (Lbcom) that require a branch.

Panoramix (Thomas)

• Working on 2 version of Panoramix in parallel: reprocessing and new T.F.

Release and Deployment (Hubert)

• Full stack based on LHCb v22r10 ready.

Specific Topics: Erasmus Project (Juan and Patrick)

Erasmus is a project started to group all the common utilities, ROOT scripts and Roofit classes for final user analysis. It is planned to be a project depending only on ROOT and GaudiPolicy (for CMT fragments and patterns).
Juan is helping to set up the project.

Marco Ca.: 1 responsible person is required. Tristan du Pree will be the responsible.

Patrick: where to put code to be compiled? src

Round Table

Hubert

Preparing a proposal to restructure LCG_Setting to clearly separate the CMT tag derived from the host platform from those implied by CMTCONFIG. The aim is to allow cross-compilation and simplify the definition of new platforms (e.g Fedora Core).

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-- MarcoClemencic - 04 Nov 2007