art: A Framework for New, Small Experiments at Fermilab
R. Kutschke · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2011
Fermilab is preparing to mount a variety of new experiments at the Intensity Frontier, all of which require infrastructure software including a framework, an event data model, persistency, run-time configuration, management of singleton-like entities such as the geometry and conditions data, integration with Geant4 (G4), build and release management, and integration with GRID based work-flow management systems. In order to maximize the return on both past and future effort invested in supporting CMS, the Fermilab Computing Division (CD) has extracted the core of the CMS framework plus many parts of its associated infrastructure software; CD is supporting this infrastructure for use by the new Intensity Frontier experiments. This talk will present the plans for and status of this infrastructure software including points of view from both the developers and the physicist-clients working on the Mu2e experiment.