Tim Barrass

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Tim Barrass

• Split 50-50 (100-100?) between BaBar and CMS
  projects.
• Interested in issues of persistent data
  management and grid integration.
• Fresh from a PhD modelling volcanic ash clouds
  in Earth Sciences- so am coming up to speed with
  whats going on in particle physics.

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Non-BaBar work

• CMS work
• Implement and begin to stress test the LCG POOL
  Objectivity replacement at CERN and Bristol.
• General
• Contribute to testing the EDG RLS by installing
  the service at Bristol.
• Attend two OO coding courses at RAL in December.

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BaBar goals Q4 2002

• Have been getting up to speed with BaBar
  computing environment.
• Creating test federations and doing MC runs.
• Work with ROOT trees and files.
• Create a snapshot of the conditions db at RAL to
  link jobs against.
• Develop a BaBar Grid testbed at Bristol (with
  Wahid).
• Attend the Dec collaboration meeting at SLAC.

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BaBar goals Q1 2003

• Contribute to conversion of Mini-DST to a ROOT
  format (a la Micro-DST).
• Help develop BaBar Grid infrastructure.
• Stress test file transfers with other BaBar Grid
  sites, and MC job submission (as other sites are
  currently doing).
• Use the testbed to access (gridify?)BaBar
  farms at Bristol.