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The Applications Area is one of four activity areas in the LHC Computing Grid Project. The Applications area develops and maintains that part of the physics applications software and associated infrastructure that is shared among the LHC experiments. The scope includes common applications software infrastructure, frameworks, libraries, and tools; common applications such as simulation and analysis toolkits; grid interfaces to the experiments; and assisting the integration and adaptation of physics applications software in the grid environment.

The work of the applications area is conducted within projects. There are currently four projects:

• Software process and infrastructure (SPI)
• Core libraries and services (ROOT)
• Persistency framework (POOL)
• Simulation (SIMU)

Another project with applications software aspects is the Distributed Deployment of Databases (3D) project in the Grid Deployment Area.

General information

• Applications Area manager: Pere Mato
• Applications Area documents
• Applications Area general talks
• Architecture
• Quarterly reports

Meetings and Workshops

All meetings are completely open, with the sole exception of the Architects Forum (for which decisions and actions are written in public minutes).

• Agenda system - Applications area
• Agendas up to August 2002
• Architects Forum meetings

Mailing lists and archives

• General Applications Area mailing list: project-lcg-peb-apps@cern.ch  with the archive
  This is a CERN ListBox mailing list. You can subscribe yourself using a CERN mail account (login required)  or without it (users not registered at CERN).
• For project-specific mailing lists see the project pages.

Project Management and Planning

• List of topics for the evolution of SEAL, POOL and ROOT
• Overall plan for AA LCG Phase 2 (version 1) (doc, pdf)
• Overall plan for AA LCG Phase 1 (version 2) (doc, pdf)
• Old project plans:  POOL, SPI, SEAL, SIMU
• Reviews:
  • September 2006 LHCC Comprehensive review of LCG
  • September 2006 Applications Area internal review
  • November 2005 LHCC Comprehensive review of LCG
  • March 2005 Applications Area internal review
  • November 2004 LHCC Comprehensive review of LCG
  • November 2003 LHCC Comprehensive review of LCG
  • October 2003 Applications Area internal review

• Workbook with information on using and participating in the development of applications area software
• Cross-referenced code browser (LXR)
• CVS repository browser (ViewCVS)
• Doxygen

• Simulation - Established July 2002, completed Dec 2002
• Monte Carlo generators - Established June 2002, completed Oct 2002
• Applications architectural blueprint - Established June 2002, completed Oct 2002
• Detector geometry and materials description - Established June 2002, completed Nov 2002
• Math library review - Established Jan 16 2002, completed May 2
• Managing LCG software - Established January 16 2002, completed April 5
• Persistency framework - Established January 16 2002, completed April 5

• ALICE offline computing
• ATLAS offline computing
• CMS offline computing
• LHCb computing
• CERN PH/SFT group
• CERN IT/DB group