RE: [ROOT] porting of one entry to other process

From: Ryosuke Itoh (itoh@balpha03.kek.jp)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 05:52:20 MEST


Dear Philippe,

>>   I'm now working on the migration of ROOT I/O into our analysis
>> framework BASF for Belle experiment. This framework has a special
>> feature of parallel processing on an SMP server based on event data
>> distribution to multiple UNIX processes via shared mem. To utilize this
>> mechanism with ROOT, we need a scheme to cut out a serialized stream of
>> single "entry" (=event) on a TBranch, put it on the shared mem,
>> and migrate it into a TBranch on a separate UNIX process.
>> Does anyone know how to "cut out" a seriarized stream of single entry?

> The CDF experiments has been using a similar mechanism that I coded a while
> back.  We will add this mechanism to the CVS repository sometime next week.
> Please note that there is a few limitations and that the coding is not
> trivial.  If you need this feature sooner let me know and I will send a
> patch (and explanations).

I just updated my ROOT source codes from CVS and tried to find your
codes to implement "event" passing mechanism, however, I could not
find it. Could you tell me where it is? If it is not in CVS yet, could 
you send me the patch?

Thanks in advance,
Ryosuke Itoh, KEK



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