Discussion system

• BBSIM
• Fast Simulation (Aslund)
• Simulation design and Geant4
• Production
• Package release announcements and new version checklist/announcement form
• Suspected and confirmed bugs; REMEDY problem reports and suggestions
• Postings over last 3 days
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Simulation Releases

• Software administration home page and release schedule
• Coupling between MDC1 production and release schedule
• Release 4.0.2: MDC1 April/May production version
• Release 3.0.2b: MDC1 initial 50k production version
• Package release announcements and new version checklist/announcement form
• List of recent package versions queued to go into next release
• Package test request form to automatically test a package on BaBar platforms
• New software package request form
• Porting lab info
• Old release info

Production

• Production discussion
  MDC1	Simu production for Mock Data Challenge 1
  MDC2 Plans	Simu plans for Mock Data Challenge 2
  MDC2	Simu production for Mock Data Challenge 2
  1996 Production	Simu production in 1996
  SLAC Tools	Batch, Staging   Tapes
  Final system	Production system is under development by P. Raines

Data and Interfaces

Simulation Codes

• BBSIM   Detector pictures     Material scan 10/96     Sys resources for BBSIM on HP     Subroutine profiling 100 events, 1 event	Production detailed Geant321 simulation
  Aslund	Fast simulation maintained by Orsay
  Bogus	The BaBar Geant4 simulation prototype
  Digitization	Framework-based digitization codes
  Trigger simulation	L1 simulation codes

Subsystems

• PEP	Beam line and commissioning (Terry Geld)
  SVT	Silicon vertex detector (Bill Lockman)
  DCH	Drift chamber (Ernesto Lamanna)
  DRC	DIRC particle ID (Brian Meadows)
  EMC	Electromagnetic calorimeter (Helmut Marsiske)
  IFR	Instrumented flux return and coil (Riccardo de Sangro)

Generators and Physics Packages

• GenFwkInt
• Physics generator group page
• BEGET event generator package (and manual)
• EvtGen event generator package: web page and package README
• STDHEP manual (original FNAL documentation - postscript)
• GELHAD generates hadronic interactions of electro-magnetic particles
• bhwide is an event generator for large angle scattering. Package README and web page
• bkqed is an event generator for e+e- --> lepton/antilepton (gamma) or e+e- --> gamma/gamma (gamma) based on Berends and Kleiss. Package README
• JETSET 7.4 manual, hypertext or postscript
• KoralB tau+ tau- generator package
• STDHEP mcfio (original FNAL documentation - postscript)
• Hadronic interaction physics

Quality Assurance/Quality Control

An area in urgent need of attention.

• Problem reporting: Use the Remedy-based simulation problem report/suggestion form to report bugs in simulation codes.

Development

• Simulation Requirements
  • Related: Reco requirements
• Geant4-based BaBar simulation
• Schedule and Milestones
  • Schedule HTML, diagram (JPEG 211k)
  • Related: Reco schedule
• People: Active developers
• Coding guidelines for persistent classes
• Draft database design document
• Programming: BaBar programming page
  • Tools.h++ usage guide postscript or text
  • CVS reference sheet
  • Programming doc in HTML, from Cygnus and GNU info tree:
    gmake, cpp, gcc, gdb, libc, libm, C, emacs, gawk, perl 5, TCL
  • CERN software: CERNLIB at SLAC, LHC++ libraries at CERN
  • Conventions for names, numbers and units
  • Programming Guidelines (updated 21-Aug-96)
  • AFS: AFS space requests; BaBar AFS doc; Tom G's AFS notes; SLAC AFS info
• Porting lab
  

Tools

• Geant4	See Geant4 in BaBar page
  Geant3.21	Manual in HTML or ps.gz; Tutorial
  dbio etc.	The dbio guide also describes dbin, dbinPlain
  Euclid	C++-coded geometries for G3 and G4
  McFIO	XDR-based I/O package used by dbio (from FNAL)
  vms2f90	Converter from VMS Fortran structures to F90
  UNT	Fortran HBOOK helper used in BBSIM

Reviews

• 23-Sep-1998 Internal Simulation Review (SLAC)
• 23-Feb-1998 Internal Simulation Review (SLAC)
• 7/97 Simulation Review (Bristol)
• 5/97 Internal Simulation Review (SLAC)
• 4/97 Internal Reconstruction Review (SLAC)
• 12/96 Computing Advisory Panel (SLAC)
• 10/96 Simulation Review (SLAC)

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