<div dir="ltr">A few reactions:<div><br></div><div>- Weighted generators are problematic for some studies. They distort distributions of secondaries. Uniform generators should be available.</div><div><br></div><div>- Information needed to replicate a run could be either in the output file or in an unambiguous, immutable other location — or a combination of both. As was pointed out in the meeting, we might not want to write e.g. field maps to every output file. But neither do we want to have the field map in a database table that any user can later delete or modify. Some kind of database to which users can add information, but not delete or modify it, would be preferred, I think, for "standard" configurations, and then deviations from standard configurations, as well as run options etc. (command line and gcard, in GEMC terms), ought to be in the output file itself. </div><div><br></div><div>- We should consider carefully, if there is a centralized database, how to make and use local mirrors. At times the JLab connection is interrupted and offsite work comes to a halt if the complete, up to date database information is not available locally.</div><div><br></div><div>(Our database needs remind me of a version control system. Add new information, but old information is preserved; central repository and local copies; etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>- We should talk about installation. My experience has been that installing GEMC offsite, with its long list of dependencies, has almost every time been plagued with difficulties. Remoll was easy. What design decisions can be made to minimize installation headaches?</div><div><br></div><div>- We need to think more about what data we want in the output and how to organize it. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Rakitha Sanjeewa Beminiwattha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rakithab@jlab.org" target="_blank">rakithab@jlab.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:12.8px">I have added a document listing SoLID simulation requirements based on discussions we had so far during our software meetings.
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The document is linked at <a href="https://hallaweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/SoLID_Software_idea" target="_blank">https://hallaweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/SoLID_Software_idea</a></span><br>
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