From rkeeler@UVic.CA Thu Jul  5 16:13:20 2001
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:35:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: R. K. Keeler <rkeeler@UVic.CA>
To: Chris Oram <oram@triumf.ca>, Margret Fincke <mgf@UVic.CA>,
     Michel Lefebvre <lefebvre@UVic.CA>, R. K. Keeler <rkeeler@UVic.CA>,
     Randy Sobie <rsobie@UVic.CA>, Dave Axen <axen@PHYSICS.UBC.CA>,
     M. A. Dobbs <mdobbs@UVic.CA>, losty@triumf.ca,
     Monika Wielers <monika.wielers@Cern.CH>,
     Erica Muzzerall <emuzzerall@hotmail.com>,
     Naoko KANAYA <naoko.kanaya@Cern.CH>, Mike Vetterli <vetm@triumf.ca>,
     Erica Muzzerall <emuzzerall@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Vincter, Manuella -- Manuella Vincter" <mvincter@phys.ualberta.ca>,
     Manuella Vincter <vincter@hermes.desy.de>
Subject: Minutes of HEC software meeting

Dear HEC'ers

HEC Software Meeting
June 12, 2001, Victoria, BC.

Attendance: RK,M. Lefebvre,MF,NK,Da,EM,M. Losty, CO.

Let me start by saying I am sorry these notes are so late.

1. Michel reviewed some news from the ATLAS Review week just held in BNL.
In particular, he quickly acquainted us with a two excellent talks, one on
software and the other on electronics.

Michel pointed that material about HEC software could be found on the
following website:
http://wwwhep.phys.uvic.ca/~uvatlas/atlas/hec/beamtest_software/ .

[Note added by Michel:
Although the address above works, I prefer we advertise the address
http://wwwhep.phys.uvic.ca/~uvatlas/hec_adc
which is simpler, and independent of future internal directory changes...]

2. Margret gave us a demonstration of her map of hec_adc. It is available
on the web as a hyperlinked document. (It is now finished). The purpose
of the map is to have a group resource to understand the structure and
functionality of hec_adc. It was agreed that this would be useful as we
work towards an OO design.

3. Naoko presented her work on the epio converter. Essentially we now have
an operating converter and Naoko is working on introducing her code into
the Athena framework.

4. Chris Oram presented material from Monika about the latest releases of
Athena.  We are beeing requested to have a "package coordinator".

5. Mike explained his experience with running and learning Athena. It was
very useful to see examples of what works, what some of the pitfalls are
and what questions we need to find answers to.

6. Dave Axen updated us on his progress with importing Athena to a local
computer. He is making good progress. It is a difficult moving target. It
was agreed that we will need a local platform running Athena to make
progress
writing the OO testbeam code.

7. Erica talked about her electronic simulation efforts. She has modelled
an
EST and looked at the effects of moving the boards small amounts. She has
duplicated the model of Leonid for the testbeam.

Next meeting is proposed to be at CERN very early in the week of July 16.
People who will be there should briefly get together at the LARG week and
pick a good time.

RKK