1. August 98 1 Jürgen Knobloch ATLAS Software Workshop Ann Arbor ACOS Report ATLAS Software Workshop December 1998 Jürgen Knobloch Slides also on: http://nicewww.cern.ch/atlas/wwwslides/ACOS981211/index.htm

2. December 98 2 Jürgen Knobloch ATLAS Software Workshop ACOS Agenda  Minutes from last meeting  Planning for 1999: >OOSimulation >OOReconstruction >Event Display >Data Base/Event >Analysis Tools >Other (Testing procedures, platforms,...) >ACOS meeting dates  Communication with/within the community  ACOS, DIG working improvements  Training  Issues for the next LCB  Matters arising from DIG and Software Week  AOB

3. December 98 3 Jürgen Knobloch ATLAS Software Workshop Milestones for Reconstruction  01/99 –ID, Muon, Lar, Tile data in Arve  02/99 –Event display of raw data  05/99 –Detector descriptions in ARVE, Muon reconstruction  06/99 –Test beam reconstructions  07/99 –IPATREC, xKalman in ARVE –Calorimeter reconstruction ? >first version  08/99 –MUON test beam reconstruction –AOD, ESD first definition and implementation  12/99 –Comparison with ATRECON G3 –First public alpha-release  02/00 –Reading of G4 events

4. December 98 4 Jürgen Knobloch ATLAS Software Workshop Milestones for Simulation  01/99 –First release of prototype simulation framework based on ARVE –Provide ATLAS examples (Si, TileCal, TGC,…) –Histograms, visualization, hits storage  02/99 –Detector component envelopes –Interface to magnetic field  05/99 –Interface to detector description data base –Comparison with beam test >demonstrate correctness and feasibility of G4 >have concrete examples being used by the detector communities  07/99 –First internal version of full ATLAS geometry –First internal version of all sensitive Detectors  12/99 –Comparison with G3(DICE) –First public alpha-release

5. December 98 5 Jürgen Knobloch ATLAS Software Workshop Milestones - 1 General Provide outline of end-99 CTP2/99 Report from review of computing2/99 Plan test and verification procedure6/99 Implement test &verification procedure12/99 Assess development resources4/99 Revisit development environment7/00 Decide on first production OS7/03 Data challenge1/04 Test full chain in real environment7/04 Analysis Analysis requirements collected02/99 Evaluate analysis environment for interim period8/99 Evaluate analysis environment for production period7/02 Implement analysis environment for production period7/03

6. December 98 6 Jürgen Knobloch ATLAS Software Workshop Milestones - 2 Event storage Define raw data structure07/99 GEANT3 events in ObjDB8/98 Define initial version of ESD7/99 Define initial version of event tag7/99 Define initial version of AOD7/99 Provide DB performance report7/00 Decide on database vendor6/01

7. December 98 7 Jürgen Knobloch ATLAS Software Workshop Milestones - 5 Infrastructure 1 Tbyte database prototype12/98 Conclude study on regional centres11/99 Define financing of computing at CERN10/99 Define scope of regional centres11/99 100 Tbyte database prototype12/03 Full database available12/04 1% processing farm prototype12/02 5% processing farm12/03 40% processing farm12/04 100% processing farm6/05