RE: [ROOT] Algorithms/Modules/Packages

From: Valeri Fine (fine@bnl.gov)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 01:52:41 MEST


Yes. The STAR ROOT-based framework for example:

(FYI: all 4 RHIC experiments (http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC ) 
are in possession of the ROOT-based frameworks)

http://chep2000.pd.infn.it/images/icon/pdf_mini.gif 
http://www.hep.net/chep98/181.html 
http://chep2000.pd.infn.it/images/icon/pdf_mini.gif 

http://www4.rcf.bnl.gov/~fine/Publications/ATLASDetDescrWorkShopApr.2002
/GEANT3.OO.Model_files/frame.htm 

http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/chep03/register/report/abstract.asp?ai
d=444

It has being using for 4 years in row for STAR (http://www.star.bnl.gov)
  Best regards, Valeri

 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch
[mailto:owner-roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch]
> On Behalf Of John Pretz
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:24 PM
> To: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch
> Subject: [ROOT] Algorithms/Modules/Packages
> 
> Hello fellow ROOTers,
> 
> The experiment I am working on (Icecube) is considering different
> possibilties for an offline simulation/reconstruction/analysis
framework.
> 
> Of course there is the immediate problem that people mean different
things
> by framework.  The thing that I think people want is some sort of
Analysis
> Module which are largly indpendent and can operates on the event
stream.
> The example that crops up alot is Gaudi, where users overload an
Algorithm
> class, and the framework is responsible for calling the right methods
of
> the Algorithm at the right times.
> 
> My first reaction is to just write some experiment-specific extensions
to
> ROOT and provide whatever people want.  (Indeed I have done so in
draft
> form.  With the ROOT tools it was easy.  Less than 700 lines.)
> Nevertheless,
> I have been commissioned to find out what already exists, so I pose
the
> question to you all:
> 
> Do you know of any (free) experiment-independent extensions to ROOT
that
> have something like Gaudi's Algorithm?  The 'experiment-independent'
is
> important because I have no shortage of experiment-dependent examples.
> 
> Thank you for any help you can give.
> 
> John Pretz
> 
> --



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