Present: M.Cattaneo, F. Harris, J.Harvey, B.Jost, P.Mato, F.Ranjard
Apologies: A.Cass, C.Gaspar, I.Videau
Minutes: J.Harvey
The minutes of the previous meeting (html) were approved.
Frank pointed out that a colleague from Oxford was keen on getting involved in DAQ activities and the mailing list and web were important for getting access to information on ongoing activities. The FEE/DAQ/ECS workshop will take place in January and the agenda will be announced shortly via the DAQ mailing list.
It is proposed to start next year with a team comprising two LHCb groups, one for detector/physics and one for computing. There will be special Team meetings to which project leaders from the 2 groups will be invited, together with project leaders from LHCb support groups (EP/TA2, EP/ED etc.). These meetings will be devoted to CERN administrative matters.
Sascha Schmeling will move into Richard's office. 2/R-006 is becoming vacant in the new year. Z.Guzik will continue to occupy a desk in Markus' office. Markus' office is due to be renovated soon.
Results of T/D Students committee
Next Fellowship Committee is 30 January 2001. Priority will be for new fellow for work on software.
Efforts continuing to secure a new staff position.
Beat Review of TFC switch design completed and prototypes are being prepared. Spec of Readout Supervisor distributed but little feedback so far (Action John). Studying alternative approach to Readout unit based on netwrok processor chips. Have results of first evaluation ready in time for January workshop (Action Beat). On controls, Clara will show PVSS to Eric for use in production tools (Action Clara). The CC-PC board should be finished by Christmas and first CCPC chips should be in hand from supplier in new year. Met with ELCOTRON rep who is interested in possibility of using PC power supplies for electronics crates. Will continue dialogue (Action Beat).
Pere GAUDI - working towards the March 2001 milestone (next software week). Restructuring of packages and documentation being worked on in view of collaboration with ATLAS. New CVS repository in place. Doc will be revised by end of the year. Action Marco.
Marco - BRUNEL - Spill-over is now working. The main priority now is
to get Brunel into production. In short term planning a series of topical
meetings to steer the evolution of Brunel Action : Marco
A FOCUS meeting was planned for the afternoon at which MD was due to explain
the future of computing in IT and Frederic Hemmer the status of the Windows 2000
project. Marco had prepared a memo to be sent to FOCUS from LHCb explaining our
position on the IT decision not to support their physics software on Windows
platforms.
Florence has been working on package reorganisation and new SICb versions. Need to organise some tutorials on managing different versions of subdetector code, and on the use of Linux software development tools (e.g. emacs and ddd). Action Florence
Frank There was a Datagrid meeting held in Milano organised by F. Etienne (WP6 - testbeds). Work starting on defining experiment use cases. The LHCb production at RAL/Liverpool/CERN is used as one. The UK (PPARC) has been allocated 26M pounds for e-science and a substantial fraction will go towards funding computing for LHC and in particular the grid activities. Eric has visited Lyon to prepare for starting MC production there.
John Will continue to put effort into the reorganisation of the web. (Action John). The LHC Computing Review is due to complete its work by the end of January 2001. The final report will be circulated at the beginning of February for comment by LHCb before it is published. It will be given to the RRB at their March meeting. Richard Mount has been elected chair of the GEANT4 CB and John Apostolakis as GEANT4 spokesman.
The next meeting will be on Feb 1st and will start at the later time of 9.00 a.m.