COOL - LCG Conditions Database Project

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Current release: COOL_2_5_0

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W 2009/01/31:End of support for kserver (Kerberos 4): move to gserver or ssh!
2008/11/11:Distributed Database Operations Workshop
2008/11/10:COOL_2_6_0 production release
2008/10/21:COOL_2_4_0b production release
2008/10/20:IEEE 2008 Nuclear Science Symposium (COOL talk: abstract, summary, slides)
2008/10/14:IT-DM Technical meeting (COOL and CORAL talks)
2008/07/08:Database Developers Workshop (COOL performance talk)
2008/06/10:COOL_2_5_0 production release (getting started - using CMT)
2008/06/04:COOL_2_4_0a production release
2008/04/14:Workshop on virtualization and multi-core technologies for LHC
2008/02/28:COOL_2_4_0 production release
2008/02/21:COOL_2_3_1 production release
2008/01/21:COOL_2_3_0 production release
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General Information

Conditions Database Project Leader: Andrea Valassi

COOL meetings

COOL Savannah Portal

COOL CVS repository

COOL dOxygen documentation

COOL twiki

COOL performance report

COOL/POOL/CORAL milestone spreadsheet

COOL HEAD release notes

COOL HEAD platform support

LCG AA nightly builds (today)

LCG AA nightly builds NEW PAGE (TEST!)

Mailing Lists

Conditions Database general mailing list: project-lcg-peb-conditionsdb@cern.ch (Web archive)

Conditions Database developers mailing list: project-lcg-peb-conditionsdb-developers@cern.ch (Web archive)

Conditions Database CVS log mailing list: project-lcg-peb-conditionsdb-cvslog@cern.ch (only for automatic messages from CVS: Web archive)

Simba2 (browse/edit lists)

People

COOL core development and testing team:

Andrea Valassi (IT/PSS-CERN) - core development, CMT configuration, release management
Sven A. Schmidt (Atlas-Mainz) - core development
Marco Clemencic (LHCb-CERN) - core development, CMT configuration, nightly builds, LHCb integration
Romain Basset (IT/PSS-CERN) - performance optimization and stress tests
Martin Wache (Atlas-Mainz) - core development

Former members of the COOL team:

Ulrich Moosbrugger (Atlas-Mainz) - examples, performance optimization
Kristoffer Dahl (IT/PSS-CERN) - performance reports and optimization (CERN summer student project)
Gianni Pucciani (IT/PSS-CERN) - performance validation and stress tests

COOL contrib packages, COOL experiment integration:

Jim Cook (Atlas-CERN) - Atlas PVSS integration
David Front (IT/LCG-Weizmann) - performance validation and stress tests
Richard Hawkings (Atlas-CERN) - Atlas integration supervision
Antoine Perus (Atlas-Orsay) - performance benchmark setup, Atlas integration
Shaun Roe (Atlas-CERN) - XmlCool, Atlas integration
RD Schaffer (Atlas-Orsay) - Atlas integration
Stefan Stonjek (Atlas-Oxford) - data distribution tests
Chun Lik Tan (Alvin) (Atlas-Birmingham) - ACE (A COOL graphical Editor)
Torre Wenaus (Atlas-BNL) - PyCoolServer, Atlas integration supervision
Federico Zema (Atlas-Calabria) - Cool2Root, COOL_IO, StandaloneCool, Atlas integration

Collaborators of related projects and former collaborators:

The POOL, SEAL and CORAL teams

Antonio Amorim, Joao Simoes, Lourenco Vaz, Nuno Barros, Tiago Franco, Dinis Klose, Jorge Lima, Luis Pedro (CondDBMySQL development team)

Vakho Tsulaia (HVS for the Atlas detector description)

Releases

Available COOL releases

COOL release notes (current release: COOL_2_5_0 production release)

Detailed COOL_2_5_0 release notes for package RelationalCool

Details about platform support for COOL_2_5_0

Meetings

Conditions Database regular meetings and minutes

POOL regular meetings and minutes

LCG Application Area meetings

ATLAS database meetings

CMS database meetings

3D meetings

LCG Service Coordination meetings

CERN agenda system

CERN audioconferencing guide

Code Browser and User Documentation

Browse the COOL CVS repository via viewcvs

Browse the CVS repositories of other LCG projects via viewcvs: CORAL, LCGCMT, POOL, ROOT, SEAL, SPI, SPITOOLS
Cross-check via lxr
LCG software reference guide using dOxygen

Browse the CVS repositories of other LHC-related projects: ATLAS offline, LHCb, CMT

How to use the COOL software in the LCG CMT environment

COOL contrib packages (not included in the tagged COOL_2_5_0 release):

Cool2Root (Federico Zema): message, viewcvs
COOL_IO (Federico Zema): message, viewcvs
PyCoolServer (Torre Wenaus): message, README, viewcvs
StandaloneCool (Federico Zema): message, viewcvs
XmlCool (Shaun Roe): README, viewcvs
VerificationClient (David Front): README, viewcvs

Deployment issues

Tools for COOL deployment on Oracle

Tools and suggestions for COOL performance optimization

Atlas deployment

Atlas use of DCS data for monitoring and reconstruction (August 2005, Savannah task #2409)

LHCb deployment

LHCb first guesses on CondDB access (September 2005)

Developers' Corner

How to release the COOL software

CVS Service for LCG

Use CVSROOT = :gserver:cool.cvs.cern.ch:/cvs/COOL for write access to the repository
Use CVSROOT = :pserver:anonymous@cool.cvs.cern.ch:/cvs/COOL for anonymous read access to the repository.
More information about the migration from conditionsdb.cvs.cern.ch to cool.cvs.cern.ch
CVS server statistics for the COOL project

Configuration: COOL_2_5_0 is based on LCG_55

For reference (CMT): LCGCMT LCG_Configuration requirements for LCG_55

CVS documentation (Cederqvist CVS reference manual)

COOL reference schema (Oracle)

COOL unit test coverage reports (latest release)

How to edit a wiki page

How to recover COOL files from AFS backup

Frontier setup at Tier0

LCG Links

LCG Application Area projects : CORAL, PI, POOL, SEAL, SPI

CORAL Server Project: twiki, sharepoint, meetings

LCG Deployment Area projects : 3D (Distributed Database Deployment)

LCG Application Area Documents

Proposal to bring the Conditions Database into the Applications Area scope (P. Mato, May 2003)
Architecture Area Program of Work for LCG Phase 2 (September 2005)

LCG Application Area dOxygen documentation