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BABAR Computing System Administration

This page is a repository of current and historical administrative items associated with the BABAR Computing System.

21 January 1999
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General Policy Issues

  • 16 Aug 1996 Justification procedure for required software
  • 7 Mar 1996 The Support Policy defines the scope of BaBar software support and the implications for collaborators. See below for the list of "supported system"
  • 9 Feb 1996 Policy on write access to BABAR code repository
  • Sep 1995 Computing Policy is a general statement of the openness and access policies guiding the BaBar computing system.
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    Detailed Policies and Guidelines

  • 24 Oct 2000 Computing Model Working Group Summary.
  • 21 Jan 1999 Year 2000 statement.
  • 15 Jan 1999 Policy on computers for BaBar visitors to SLAC: While SLAC provides office space for long-term visiting users, it does not in general provide computers for these offices. See David Hitlin's statement of this policy.
  • 17 Apr 1998 Policy for the usage of the JAVA programming language within BABAR
  • 13 Jan 1997 Definition of currently supported platforms, together with the list of reference machines and the migration plans for the coming 6 months.
  • 13 Jan 1997 Definition of the Standard BaBar Environment for computing. Any supported platform conforming to this should be able run the standard software releases.
  • 14 Oct 1995 Labelling and Numbering Conventions for BABAR Software
  • 14 Oct 1995 Preferred Units for BABAR Software
  • 21 Sep 1995 Naming Conventons for BABAR Software
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    Schedule

  • Detailed schedule (PDF), or (Microsoft Project)
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    Archive

  • Monthly computing reports
  • Dictionary of original Level 3 milestones
  • Detailed milestone Schedule, superseded by Project schedule, above
  • Controversial "Software Analysis Group" proposal: original Executive Board strawman proposal from 2 March 1995; and early Computing System model from 6 January 1995
  • Current draft of internal Computing Organization Chart
  • Computing Recommendations (David Quarrie's 9 July 1994 talk at LBL Collaboration Meeting as either 1-up or 2-up Compressed PostScript)
  • Final version of LOI as individual chapters (20 June '94, 18 compressed PostScript files, viewable via WWW)
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    Ancient History

  • Computing Agenda for July 15-18, 1996 Collaboration and other Meetings.
  • Computing Agenda and slides for April 17-20, 1996 Collaboration Meeting.
  • Computing Agenda for March 10-14, 1995 Collaboration Meeting
  • Computing Agenda for September 7-10, 1994 Collaboration Meeting.
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