HEC Beam Test Software

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HEC Beam Test Software

• schematic view

MC events
ASCII-TDS converter
ASCII Data file
MC-TDS converter
EPIO-ASCII converter
T D S
HEC raw beam test data EPIO
EPIO-TDS converter
hec_adc
monitoring
ntuple
user analysis
user analysis
HEC-MC GEANT3
ATHENA framework
hec_adc framework
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HEC Beam Test OO Software

• Recent changes
• MySQL bookkeeping added - will commit software
  this week
• Immediate work
• Objectivity converter (Annecy)
• EPIO converter - milestone for July LARG Week
• Long term jobs
• couple code into LARG software - detector
  description, calibration, reconstruction

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LARG Database

• Many activities - little to no manpower
• detector description DB
• write an interface to provide access to the cell
  location
• stored in Objectivity or XML
• objectivity DB
• need to put LArHits into Objectivity (by end
  June)
• production DB (no time)
• calibration DB
• EM testbeam group are using MySQL for constants

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Grid Research - I

• We have created a small Grid testbed between
  Victoria-TRIUMF using the Globus toolkit
• Bob Kowalewski, Asoka De Silva, Ashok Agarwal,
  Jan van Uytven
• we are currently testing how to handle I/O from a
  simple job that writes out random numbers
• in parallel we are learning how to use CONDOR on
  the testbed - CONDOR is a batch scheduler that is
  used in our Linux cluster - CONDOR is grid
  enabled
• our short term goal is be able to run a simple
  particle physics generator or simulation job over
  the grid
• our long term goal is to do BaBar MC production
  over the Grid - this requires use of Objectivity

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Grid Research - II

• We are collaborating with HPC Group in NRC,
  Ottawa and helping researchers in Windsor to
  establish their Grid
• Their goals are a bit different than ours. They
  are interested in creating a distributed parallel
  processing facility.
• We would like to increase our effort by hiring a
  dedicated person as well as making a more
  realistic testbed
• We have been funded by C3.ca Association and (I
  hope) by NSERC
• We are discussing funding with C3.ca and CANARIE
• Bob and I will likely submit a grant to NSERC for
  Grid research
• See wwwgrid.phys.uvic.ca