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Organization

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STAR Software & Computing is headed by Dr. Jérôme Lauret and Dr. Gene Van Buren located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

S&C Team April 2010
From left to right: Jérôme Lauret, Dmitry Arkhipkin, Wayne Betts, Lidia Didenko, Gene van Buren, Jason Webb, Levente Hajdu, Victor Perevoztchikov, Matthew Ahrenstein, Yuri Fisyak, Valeri Fine

The S&C management structure is as below. Unless otherwise specified, [X] indicates an activity area whose overall coordinator has been missing and co-lead (internally absorbed).

  • Jérôme Lauret (BNL)    - Software & Computing project Leader    
  • Gene Van Buren (BNL) - Software & Computing project co-leader

The principal members of the S&C structured team are listed below.

  • Data readiness sub-group  - Coordinated by Gene Van Buren (BNL)
    • Grant Webb (UKY) - Calibration Coordinator (+)
    • Dmitry Arkhipkin (BNL) - Database administration and support
    • Lanny Ray (UTA) - Quality Assurance Coordinator
      • [X] - Online QA 
      • Elizabeth Wingfield Oldag (UTA) - Offline QA
         
  • Offline software - [X] 
    • Yuri Fisyak (BNL) - Reconstruction leader (+)
      • Spyridon Margetis (KSU) - Reconstruction deputy, Inner Silicon tracking
    • Victor Perevoztchikov(BNL) - Simulation leader (+)
      • Jason Webb (BNL) - Simulation support specialist (Start November 2nd 2009)
    • Terence Tarnowsky (MSU) in training - Embedding Coordinator (+)
      • Chris Powell (LBNL) - Embedding Deputy, base QA support
      • Xianglei Zhu (Tsinghua) - Embedding Deputy
        Embedding Helpers (see the structure for more information)
        • Spin:           Pibero Djawhoto (TAMU)
        • HF:              Barbara Trzeciak (WUT), Mustafa Mustafa (Purdue)
        • Lfspectra:    Geraldo Vasconcelos (UE-Campinas), Xiangli Ciu (USTC)
        • Jet-like-corr:Josh Kronzer (Purdue), Kolja kauder (UIC)
        • UPC:            Ramiro Debbe (BNL)
        • Bulk-cor:      Lokesh Kumar (KSU)
  • Data production and library - Coordinated by Lidia Didenko (BNL)
    • Lidia Didenko (BNL) - Production coordinator (+) and Software Librarian ()
    • Levente Hajdu (BNL) - (1/3rd time) Distributed production support
       
  • Infrastructure, software infrastructure, Middleware support, technology evaluation and integration - Coordinated by Jérôme Lauret (BNL)
    • [X] - ROOT development, visualization & software architecture, R&D and support [X]
    • Levente Hajdu (BNL) - (1/3rd) technology provisioning and development of tools (for local or distributed computing)
    • Computer Operation and user support - Coordinated by Wayne Betts (BNL)
      • Wayne Betts (BNL) - Computer support
      • Matthew Ahrenstein (BNL) - Computer support: BNL user's laptop and desktop (purchase, setup, OS upgrades and software) + visitors laptops (troubleshooting, system setup for BNL compliance, cyber-security)
    • Grid Operations and OSG activities - Coordinated by Douglas Olson (LBNL) and Wayne Betts (BNL)
      • Douglas Olson (LBNL) - Activity Coordinator
      • Wayne Betts (BNL) - Grid Operation coordinator and distributed facility point of contact
      • Levente Hajdu (BNL) - (1/3rd) Grid Technology support 

 

Other supporting efforts & members

  • Related to Software infrastructure
    • Anthony Timmins (WSU) - MuDST support
    • Anthony Kesich, Samantha Brovok, Rosi Reed (UC-Davis) - Vertex Finder support
    • Hongwei Ke (HNU) - Web master and Web support (+)
  • Related to Computing and facilities Operations
    • Off-site facilities - This section includes central and/or distributed facility support 
      • Jeff Porter & Keith Beattie (LBL) - PDSF support & Data Management Coordinator
      • Elizabeth Atems (WSU) - Grid infrastructure and operation support

The Software Sub-system coordinators (+) in each specialized area are as follows :

Detector sub-systems:

  • TPC Software – Richard Witt (Yale, USNA)
  • DAQ Software – Jeff Landgraf (BNL)
  • EMC2 Software - (co-lead / historically in two groups)
    • Justin Stevens (IU CEEM)
    • Alice Ohlson (Yale)
  • FGT Software - Anselm Vossen (CEEM)
  • FMS Software - Thomas Burton (BNL)
  • TOF Software - Frank Geurts (Rice)
  • Trigger Detectors (BBC, FPD, CTB, ZDC, MWC, ...) - Akio Ogawa (BNL)
  • HFT Software - Spyridon Margetis (KSU)
     
  • eSTAR R&D - Ming Shao (USTC)

     
    The below sub-systems are no longer supported in STAR (system removed) - green are systems with no support, blue with some support:
  • FTPC Software - Janet Seyboth (MPI)
  • PMD Software - Rashmi Raniwala (U. Rajasthan)
  • RICH Software - Boris Hippolyte (Yale)
  • L3 Software - Thorsten Kollegger (Frankfurt)
  • SVT Software - Helen Caines (Yale)
  • SSD Software - Jonathan Bouchet (KSU)

The names below reflect the list of software coordinators while diverse projects were in R&D phase. The projects moved to full projects in 2007

  • Offline Heavy Flavor Tracker Software - Andrew Rose (LBL)
  • Offline Inner Silicon Tracker Software - Mike Miller (MIT)
  • Offline Hybrid Pixel Detector Software - Sevil Salur (Yale)

The computing and software effort is closely associated with the Physics Working Groups. STAR physics analysis software runs within the context of the computing infrastructure, taking the DST as input. The physics working groups have responsibility for the development of physics analysis software. The STAR Physics Analysis Coordinator acts as coordinator between the PWGs and computing. The PAC's responsibilities are described here.

Xin Dong (LBNL) is the current STAR Physics Analysis Coordinator.

 

 

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