DD4hep Developers Meeting

Thursday 28 Apr 2022, 15:30 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

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Andre Sailer (CERN), Markus Frank (CERN)

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Present:  M.Frank, A.Sailer

1) Pending problems

1.1) Pending problems reported by Sang Hyun Ko:
     - Cannot setup Birk's constant as material property.
     - No analogy to G4PVParametrized. Unclear if a solution is possible.
1.2) Add GFlash parameterisation to DDG4 (issue #802)
1.3) PluginFactoryBase::make_return problem with longs (Issue 875)
1.4) ROOT issue: for G4 units the radiation/interaction length is wrong by a factor 10
       -- For CMS this problem does not show up.
       -- Should only enter AFTER simulation (Geant4 materials do not have the radiation length as input)
       -- Need to address this issue early next year.
1.5) DDDigi TBB code needs migration to new oneAPI TBB interfaces (Issue 901):
       Clash between Intel oneapi TBB and classic TBB.
       -- Wouter promised to look into.


2)    Closed issues and fixed problems
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2.1) Fix of variable shadowing warnings (PR https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/pull/905, fixed by Andre)
2.2) Adjusting bootstrap script to be able to run all tests (PR https://github.com/AIDASoft/DD4hep/pull/906, fixed by Andre)

3) Round table
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3.1)  Markus:        --
3.2)  Andre:           - Talk requested: "DD4Hep for HSF Simulation Working Group"
                              Scheduled for May 26th. ( https://indico.cern.ch/event/1146364 )
                              Need to define the major topics - also with respect to ROOT7
4) AOB
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Next meeting:   12. Mai 2022
 

15:30 → 15:50 Around the table