Minutes of E895 Meeting - Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1997
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Attendees: Hans-Georg Ritter (HGR), Gulshan Rai (GR), Dieter Best (DB)
        Heng Liu (HL), Jessica Kintner (JK), Nathan Stone (NS),
        James Symons (JS)


News Items:
        - Pentium II farm now has 100baseT connection for each node
          (still needs NFS)
        - EOS mass storage space will be deactivated (deleted) at the end
          of October.
          --> ALL CONCERNED PARTIES MUST TRANSFER VALUABLE DATA ELSEWHERE

News from Whistler:
        - had 6 good presentations
        - held discussion of tasks for the upcoming week (toward software
          decision)
        - identified discrepancies between efficiency-corrected Lambda yield
          between SUNY and LBNL.  requires further investigation

News on Quark Matter:
        (Editor's note: In case you haven't heard, only one E895 paper
         was accepted for presentation --> Heng Liu : Flow studies)
        - In preparation for QM97 (and for purposes of software comparison)
          we will commence running 2D-BTF @ 6/8 GeV.  If necessary, we will
          also run 2/4 GeV, later.
        - all calibration files are in CVS.  Several "bad" ones taken out.

Progress reports:

- ML is running 8 GeV @ OSU (tape 75)
- Slow Simulator:
        - CVS version works with simulated particles, but still does not
          work with "embeded" events
        - GR tuned parameters to match the E895 setup.  This is something
          that has not been done in any of the existing codes.
        - some "features" of the "original" slow simulator have been
          deleted.  These may (or may not) be retrieved.  GR will speak
          with Eric Beals to determine this.
- JK is working on Pion flow @ 1 GeV for a draft with UCD
- DB fixed the divide.by.zero error in BTF
- DB finds some peculiarities with V0 multiplicities in similar event sets
        - other characteristics (track multiplicity, etc) appear the same

Action Items:

- DB will import ML's monitoring scripts to the LBNL Pentium farm
- GR will talk to Tina Declerck about NFS for the LBNL Pentiums
- GR will speak with Eric Beals to look for older SlowSim "features"
- GR will speak with Doug Olson about a local LBNL email distribution list

Minuteman: Nathan Stone