[Clas12_software] CLAS12 software review

[burkert]

Dear CLAS12 Software Contributors,

I like to thank all of you who worked hard to contribute to the 
development of the CLAS12 software, and the preparation of the IT 
software review last Thursday and Friday. Although the final report is 
not yet available, we can say that it was a very positiv review. The 
committee acknowledged that the software is on track for online 
calibration and physics analysis when beam is available. The CLARA 
framework was recognized as "innovative" and the development of GEMC 
using Geant4 received praise. Also our use of legacy software for 
calibration and commissioning and the long range planning was very much 
appreciated.

Most importantly, the committee recommended to carry out scale tests of 
the CLAS12 software this fall (2012), and do full stress tests in 
January 2014 with resources to be provided by the Lattice QCD computing 
facility at JLab. This is a tremendously important recommendation and we 
need to work diligently towards achieving these milestones. A detailed 
plan on how to meet these milestones was presented in the talk by Dennis 
Weygand. It also shows that much work is still ahead of us.

The past 3 months have been a rewarding time for all of us. In the short 
time of only 3 months we pulled together the software work of the past 6 
years, new developments were implemented, and the work of many people 
was put together in an appealing fashion. All of this material can be 
found on the software review web page: 
https://www.jlab.org/conferences/12gevhbsr/index.html.

Best regards,
Volker Burkert

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