FCC Software Meeting

Wednesday 2 Nov 2016, 11:00 → 13:00 Europe/Zurich

32/1-A24 (CERN)

Minutes of FCC Software Meeting 2.11.2016

Result of documentation hackathon

• Tutorial repo being filled by various contributors
• Alice volunteered as tester for most of the material

New arrival

  Fellow Niloufar Alipour Tehrani will be integrating the CLIC detector into FCC-ee

Round Table

Benedikt

• New release to be produced next week. Currently waiting for ROOT 6.08.00 expected this week
• Need to connect all loose ends, including ACTS and documentation
• Merged outstanding pull requests in the last days

Anna

• Adding documentation for simulation options;
• New layering options in calorimeter

Alice

• working on integrating PAPAS C++ interface into FCCSW

Jana

• Working on improving calorimeter clustering
• Q: How to use batch resources --> will be part of new documentation

Sabri

• Working on condor interface for FCC; currently debugging Python interface

Zbynek

• Optimization of central region vs. forward tracker w/ tkLayout
• Provided first complete example tracking detector
• Digitizer discussion with Andi/Julia

Valentin

• Finished TKLayout tracker migration to FCCSW and validated with Geantinos
  • Open question how to keep the layouts in sync
• Restarted working in cellular automaton for track seeding (CMS approach)
• Working with Julia on ACTS integration

Julia

• Debugged geometry setup
• Adding documentation
• Working on next ACTS release
  • Agreed on waiting for ACTS release candidate end of the week; testing it and giving OK for release to ACTS developers

Joschka

• Updated FCC-hh detector model
• Improved procedures for documentation and release creation

Colin

•   CMS / FCC code synchronization of Heppy
•   Heppy contains batch submission scripts for heppy; need adjustment to condor once ready

11:00 → 11:20 Round Table