RHIC Common Software Ct’d
RHIC-wide STAF
- release of ‘RL97A’, first RHIC version of STAF, in a few weeks. In STAR, will replace SL97A
- Mailing list for development discussions to be set up by RCF
- Plans for joint web home and bug reporting system established
- In-house bug reporting system for each experiments filters all reports; experts propagate reports to RHIC-wide bug system as appropriate
- Probably GNU-based.
STAR benefitting from RHIC-common work in other experiments (Phenix), eg.
- Core software tools area /opt/rhic established
- Objectivity purchase negotiated; installed; tutorials under development
- Grand Challenge participation
Other possible common efforts less well developed
- Visualization?
- Geant4?
- ROOT and/or other analysis tools?