The BRAHMS collaboration will hold a software meeting on the week of December 6-10, 1999. This meeting will have a number of presentations and should have a lot of discussion to provide the environment to lead to decisions regarding software issues in BRAHMS.

The meetings are arranged by subject. Monday will focus mostly on databases and related issues, Tuesday will focus on a review of various data formats, Wednesday will focus on physics issues and Thursday will focus simulations and code organization. An attempt was made to put the most important, weighty material at the beginning of the week so that it could be revisited later in the week in some of the afternoons if necessary. Aside from that, the afternoons are left unscheduled for the purpose of doing some concrete work on the software. Friday is mostly left unscheduled since people will be starting to leave, but there is a block of time from about 10:30 - 12:30 where some unresolved issues could be discussed if necessary by people who have not left by that time.

Monday
Morning: Room 2-34

9:00-9:15 Start of Meeting
9:15 - 9:45 BRAHMS status (FV)

Data Bases

9:45 - 10:45 Objectivity and BRAT (CH)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Access methods, Software, Performance, Backup and recovery (AH and/or CH)
12:00 - 12:30 DB, trigger setup and other run-conditions. (KO)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

1:00 GET for people who need it (1:00 - 3:00)

Afternoon: BRAHMS Counting House
Data coordination (FV)

2:00 - 3:30 HPSS coordinated access HSI , ORNL software scripts, data carousel (Phenix),
Grand Challenge (STAR)

Tuesday
Morning: Room 2-34

Review of raw data formats, DAQ and control issues

9:00 - 9:30 DAQ status and presentation (KO)
9:30 - 10:00 discussion
10:00 - 11:00 BRAT status, online monitoring, Raw Data Types (KH)
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:45 Track formats
11:45 - 12:15 DC objects
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon: BRAHMS Counting House

2:00 - 2:30 Planning for afternoon work

Wednesday
Morning: Room 2-34

Physics issues.

9:00 - 9:30. Vertex finding with MRS TPC (Current Status) (JHL)
9:30 - 10:00 Vertex finding with MRS TPC (Bjoern)
10:00 - 10:30 PID (IB)
10:30 - 11:00 Fast access Root Trees (AKH)
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00 Weights and cross section corrections (JHL)
12:00 - 12:30 Tracking Hough transforms (TT)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon: BRAHMS Counting House

2:00 - 2:30 Planning for afternoon work

Thursday

Morning: Room 2-34
Simulations, code organizations
Simulations (FV)

9:00 - 9:45 Event Generators, formats, Gbrahms, data generation

Code Organization

10:00 - 10:15 DAQ repository (KO)
10:15 - 10:30 Offline repository (FV)
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:15 Scripts for calibration, reconstruction jobs, run/file information(AKH)
11:15 - 12:30 Data flow and issues
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon: BRAHMS Counting House

2:00 - 2:30 Planning for afternoon work

Friday

9:00 - 10:30 Security and Risk Assessment Task Force Meeting (KH, KO, FV)
10:45 - 12:30 Unresolved issues from earlier in the week
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch