Contents

• Job Control
  • Running and Configuring loon
    • Writing a JobControl Macro
    • Job Configuration
    • Job modules provided by the framework
  • How to Make a Job Module
  
  
• Message Service
  • Introduction
  • Configuring Message Service from Loon
    • Setting Logging Levels
    • Setting Stream Formats
  • Writing Code using MessageService
    • Basics
    • Formatting Numerical Data
    • Hints and Tips
    • Advanced Features
  • The Trip Wire Debug Facility
  
  
• Modules, Algorithms and Candidates
  • Introduction
  • Concepts
    • Module
    • Handle
    • CandContext
    • MOM
    • Algorithm
    • Candidate
  • Naming Convention
  • A Simple Example: DigitListModule
    • Introduction
    • DigitListModule code
    • CandDigitList code
    • AlgDigitList code
    • AlgDigit code
    • Summary
  • Working with Modules
  • Working with Candidates
    • Designing Candidates
    • Creating Candidates
    • Using Candidates
    • Printing Candidates
    • Teaching Candidates to print themselves
  • Working with Algorithms
    • Designing Algorithms
    • Creating Algorithms
    • Using Algorithms
  
  
• Conventions
  • Coordinate Systems and Plane Numbers
  • Enumerations
    • DetectorType
    • SimFlag
    • Plane View and Coverage
    • StripEnd
    • Electronics Readout Types
  • Units and Physical Quantities
  
  
• Plexus
  • Introduction
  • Creating a plexus
  • Configuring the Plex
    • Managing shared plexii
    • Caching a copy of the loan pool
  • PlexStripEndId
  • PlexSEIdAltL
  • Special Channels
  • Far Detector Veto Shield
  
  
• UgliGeometry
  • Introduction
  • Creating a geometry
  • Configuring how geometries are constructed
    • Managing shared geometries
    • Caching a copy of the loan pool
  • UgliGeomHandle
  • UgliPlaneHandle
  • UgliStripHandle
  • Building, changing and sharing a modified geometry
  
  
• Geometry
  • Introduction
  • Creating a geometry
  • Definitions
    • Material/Mixture
    • Medium
    • Detector Components
  • Configuration
    • Configuration of medium assigned to detector component
    • Configuration of swim method assigned to detector component
    • Configuration of tracking flags assigned to a medium
  
  
• Database Interface
  • Concepts
    • Types of Data
    • Simple, Compound and Aggregated
    • Tables of Data
    • A Cascade of Databases
    • Context Sensitive
    • Extended Context
    • SimFlag Association
    • Authorising Databases and Global Sequence Numbers
    • Validity Management
    • Rollback
    • Lightweight Pointers to Heavyweight Data
    • Natural Table Index
    • Task
    • Level 2 (disk) Cache
  • Running
    • Setting up the Environment
    • Configuring
  • Accessing Existing Tables
    • Introduction
    • Accessing Detector Descriptions
    • Accessing Algorithm Configuration
    • Writing Algorithm Configuration
    • Extended Context Queries
    • Error Handling
  • Creating New Tables
    • Choosing Table Names
    • Creating Detector Descriptions
  • Filling Tables
    • Overview
    • Aggregate Numbers
    • Simple Example
    • Using DbiWriter
    • Table Row Responsibilities
    • Creating and Writing Temporary Tables
    • Clearing the Cache
  • ASCII Flat Files and Catalogues
    • Overview
    • Flat Files
    • Catalogues
    • Example
  • MySQL Crib
    • Introduction
    • Installing
    • Running mysql
    • System Administration
    • Selecting a Database
    • Creating Tables
    • Filling Tables
    • Making Queries
  • Performance
    • Holding Open Connections
    • Truncated Validity Ranges
    • Timing
  
  
• Navigation
  • Introduction
  • Using the Tools
    • Naming Convention
    • Introduction
    • Creating the Class Code
    • Creating Iterators for Supported Classes
    • Sequential Access
    • Sorting with a Single Function
    • Sorting with Multiple Functions
    • Selection
    • Functors: Programmable Sorting and Selection
    • Masks
    • Optimising Sorting and Selection
    • Iterating in Multiple Dimensions
    • Random Access
    • Cloning Iterators
    • Refresing Iterators
    • Creating the Navigation Objects
  • Background - The need for generic tools
  • Function and Form
    • Functionality
    • Form
  
  
• Registry
  • Introduction
  • Basics of Registry
    • Creation
    • Setting values
    • Getting values
    • Iterating on the keys
    • Miscellaneous Methods
  
  
• Raw Data and Rotorooter
  • General Principles
  • Details of the RawDataBlock
  • Details of the RawBlockId
  • Details of the RawChannelId
  • Operation of the rotorooter
  • Online code interface to the rotorooter
  
  
• Calibrator
  • Purpose
  • Structure
  • Configuring the Calibrator
    • Choosing Schemes
    • Turning Calibration Off
    • Configuring the Sub-Calibrators
  • Configuration, Statistics, Errors
  • Writing a New Sub-Calibrator
  • Migrating from the Old DigitCalibrator and StripCalibrator
    • Calls Via AlgConfig
    • Direct Calls
  
  
• Data Model and I/O
  • Introduction
  • Persistency and ROOT
  • Data Model
    • Definitions
    • More on Records
  • Input Stream Management
    • Specifying input files
    • Identifying the Source of a Data Record
  • Output Stream Management
    • Specifying output streams and files
    • Salvaging output data from crashed jobs
  • Miscellanea
    • Rules for writing a Persistable Class
  
  
• Ntuples
  • Introduction
  • Standard Ntuples (NtpSt/SR/MC/TH)
  • Using ntuples
    • Analyzing ntuple data in a bare root session with TBrowser,TTree::Draw, etc.
    • Analyzing ntuple data in a bare root session with MakeClass
    • Analyzing ntuple data in a loon session with a script
    • Analyzing data from multiple ntuple trees in parallel
  
  
• Leak Checker
  • Introduction
  • Inserting Leak Checker probes into code
    • Adding probes for MINOS classes
    • Adding probes for foreign classes
  • Activating the probes
  • Accessing Leak Checker statistics
  • A final word of warning
  
  
• Dependency
  • How to make the list of dependencies?
  • Why is this useful?
  
  
• R2HBOOK
• Database Maintenance
  • Introduction
  • Building and Running dbmjob
    • Building
    • Running
  
  
• Dispatcher
  • Introduction
  • Installing the Dispatcher Parent Server
  • Running a Dispatcher Client
    • An Example Use of DDSClient Interface
    • An Example Use of JobC Interface
  
  
• Minos Event Display (sub) framework: Midad
  • Introduction
  • Using and configuring Midad with out writing code.
  • Midad Design
    • Design Overview
    • Main graphical objects
    • Update Policy for Scene and Scenery
    • Memory Management
  • Configuring Midad in a ROOT macro
    • Minimal setup
    • Detailed setup
  
  
• Monte Carlo Information
  • Accessing Truth Information
  • Various Numerical Codes
    • Examples of StdHep structures
  • StdHep controls in GMINOS
  • Regarding TrackId
  • ParticleTransportSim
    • Status Codes
    • StdHep controls in PTSim