MINOS Software Index: Issues and Packages of Interest

Computing and Simulation Overviews by Experiment

From ATLAS

• ATLAS Software -- ATLAS Index with pointers to OO migration strategy.
• ATLFAST++ -- ATLAS fast C++ simulation package using ROOT. Points to 48 page PS file documentation. Interesting class organization.

From BABAR

• BBSIM Index -- BABAR Index to (Physics and) Simulation Effort

From D0

• D0 Computing -- Index to D0 Computing, links to C++ tools, ...
• D0 Run II -- D0 Run II Computing and Software Review

From MINOS

• MINOS ++ -- MINOS OO Group Page maintained by Rob Edgecock
• MINOSIM Diagram -- Block Diagram of GMINOS Simulation
• MINOS at Indiana -- MINOS Page Maintained by Indiana Collaborators
• Minnesota Software Page -- MINOS Software Page Maintained by Jeff Nelson

Object Oriented Toolkits, Frameworks and Libraries

From CERN

• ROOT Page -- CERN Documentation on ROOT (Rene Brun, et al)
• ROOT Publication List -- Overview of the different talks and publications about the ROOT system
• GEANT4 Page -- CERN Documentation on C++ version of GEANT
• GEANT3 to 4 Conversion -- CERN GEANT3 to GEANT4 Geometry Conversion Tools by Torre Wenaus
• GEANT4 Packages -- Summaries of C++ Software Packages Interesting for GEANT4 (may be obsolete)
• FOOT Page -- FOOT - "Framework for OO Technology:" CERN OOP Projects (may be obsolete)

Commercial Products

• CERN Known Product List -- CERN compiled list of known products
• Roguewave -- BABAR is looking at Roguewave Tools.h++ and Standard C++ Library as a possible way to standardize among platforms.
• ObjectSpace -- CERN documentation on ObjectSpace tools licensed by LHC++. Standard libraries supported for multiple platforms.

Standard Template Library

From Hewlett Packard, SGI and Moscow Center for SPARC Technology

• SGI STL Page -- "STL Programmer's Guide," STL Documentation and other Resources from SGI.
• STLPort Project -- "Standard Template Library Adaptation Page" - Successful project to standardize and port a free, advanced, easily installed STL package. Package works well with C++ compilers having template support. Simple installation.
• STL Manual -- Hewlett Packard "Standard Template Library" Manual for C++

Data Model and I/O Systems

From CERN

• RD45 Page -- CERN RD45 Project - a DRDC project to investigate object persistency for HEP, coupled with GEANT4, BABAR, ...
• Objectivity Page -- Home Page of Objectivity, Inc., the commercial DB package used by RD45 for persistent objects
• ROOT Object I/O System -- Philosopy and Implementation of Persistent Object I/O in ROOT System
• ROOT DB Performance -- Performance Comparison between ROOT, Objectivity/DB and LHC++ histOOgrams
• ROOT DB Performance Q and A -- ROOT team responses to questions raised about "Performance Comparison between ROOT, Objectivity/DB and LHC++ histOOgrams"
• CERN ADAMO Page -- CERN access to ADAMO Distribution and Documentation

From BABAR

• DBIO Guide -- BABAR Guide and Reference for DBIO Data Base and Data Structure I/O Package - the interim solution used within BBSIM
• Oct95 DBIO Status -- BABAR Status of the Migration to DBIO for GEANT I/O
• Colias Prototype -- BABAR Colias Data Model Prototype based on Farfalla (F. Porter)

From FNAL

• D0 Data Model -- D0 Page on Data Model Status
• MCFIO Package -- FNAL XDR based I/O Utility: Used in DBIO

From SLAC

• Cheetah Slides -- Chep92 Slides on Cheetah XDR based I/O Utility

From CALTECH

• Farfalla User's Guide -- User's Guide to Farfalla C++ I/O package

Software Guidelines and Standards

From International Standards Organization (ISO)

• ISO C++ -- November 14, 1997 Announcement: "International standard for the C++ programming language approved!"

From CERN

• GEANT4 Coding Guidelines -- Coding conventions for GEANT4
• ATLAS Coding Guidelines -- Coding conventions for ATLAS
• ROOT Coding Guidelines -- Coding conventions for ROOT Project

From BABAR

• BABAR Software Guidelines -- Guidelines for BABAR Software
• Ellemtel Guidelines -- "Programming in C++: Rules and Recommendations" from Ellemtel (consulted by BABAR) - perhaps a bit dated

From FNAL

• STDHEP -- Monte Carlo Standardization: Particle Numbering, Event Format, ...

Code Development

CASE Tools

• CERN Known Product List -- CERN compiled list of known products
• GDPro Product Information -- "Medium priced" CASE tool being used by D0
• GDPRO Review -- Object Magazine article by president of GDPro: "Successful Design Tool Selection and Deployment"

Methodology

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar -- An analysis of how and why the Linux development model works. This is contrasted with a more controlled hierarchical development model.

Design Patterns - Increasingly visible in HEP software.

Source Books on Patterns

• Design Patterns -- Basic Source Book: "Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides

Web Pages from various Patterns advocates

• UIUC Patterns Home Page -- University of Illinois Patterns Page
• Patterns AGCS -- AG Communication Systems Patterns Page

OO Education: courses and materials

Resources on the Web

• Roguewave_Guide -- Roguewave's "Guide to Object-Oriented Technology on the Web"

Instructors

• Glenn_Downing -- Resume of a free lance instructor who has given several 5 day classes at Fermilab.

Code Management

From Free Software Foundation

• Gnu Info Tree -- GNU Documentation (gmake, g++, emacs, gdb, bash, etc.)
• CVS Manual -- GNU Manual for "Concurrent Version System" of Code Maintenance and Distribution
• RCS Manual -- GNU Manual for "Revision Control System" underlying CVS

From BABAR

• CVS Reference Sheet -- BABAR Reference Sheet for CVS
• SRT Structure -- BABAR Structure of "Software Release Tool"
• SRT Summary -- BABAR Summary of "Software Release Tool"

Event Visualization and Graphics

Components of VINES by Erik Gotschalic

• VOGL Distribution -- "Very Ordinary GL": A free portable Graphics Library in C with Fortran Interface. Erik uses vogl-1.2.8.
• Tk/Tcl -- Simple Free X-Library from Sun for GUI's, multiple windows. Erik uses Tk 4.0 and Tcl 7.4.