NIAC2010 CodeCamp

Location

Building 5200, Room 214 (Emory) Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Code Camp Attendees

Do not write in this table. This is to indicate the list of people we know are attending

If you want to attend please email either [Stuart Campbell] (Stuart_Campbell.html “wikilink”) or [Peter Peterson] (Peter_Peterson.html “wikilink”).

It is important that if entering the US on a Visa Waiver to ensure that you get a VWB (Visa Waiver Business) and NOT a tourist one.
It is likely that you will not be allowed into ORNL with a Tourist Visa!

Name	Company/Institute	PAS status	spaces in car
[Frederick Akeroyd] (Freddie_Akeroyd.html “wikilink”)		ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
[Stuart Campbell] (Stuart_Campbell.html “wikilink”)		ORNL, USA
Peter Chang		Diamond Light Source, UK
[Pete Jemian] (Pete_Jemian.html “wikilink”)		APS, ANL, USA
[ Jens-Uwe Hoffmann] (Jens-Uwe_Hoffmann.html “wikilink”)		Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (renamed HMI), Germany
[Mark Koennecke] (Mark_Koennecke.html “wikilink”)		PSI, Switzerland
[Peter Peterson] (Peter_Peterson.html “wikilink”)		ORNL, USA
Michael Reuter		ORNL, USA
[Tobias Richter] (Tobias_Richter.html “wikilink”)		Diamond Light Source, UK
Benjamin Watts		Swiss Light Source, Switzerland
[Marie Yao] (Marie.html “wikilink”)		ORNL, USA

Planned Agenda

Tuesday 5th October 2010

9:00	9:15	Welcome
9:15	9:30	Progress on tasks from last meeting
9:30	9:45	Break
10:00	11:00	Work Package Planning
11:00	12:00	Prioritize and Allocate Tasks
12:00	13:00	Lunch
13:00	14:00	Define working groups
14:00	15:00	Development work in Teams
15:00	15:15	Break
15:15	17:00	Development work in Teams

Wednesday 6th October 2010

9:00	9:30	Discussion on progress so far
9:30	9:45	Break
10:00	12:00	Continued Development
12:00	13:00	Lunch
13:00	15:00	Final Development Session
15:00	15:15	Break
15:15	17:00	Wrap up and assign Actions

Topics

• Documentation

  • resolve incomplete sections and reorder layout

  • prepare report to present to NIAC

  • SNS nxdl

• Doxygen API documentation

• prepare Tech Committee report on progress to NIAC

  • Concepts

    • Coordinate Systems

    • NXmeasurement

    • implement NXsubentry

    • implement scaled data

• project plan

• NAPI

  • NAPI is not thread-safe

  • problem is deep inside C API

  • NAPI Java interface

  • consider object-oriented or higher-level API

  • build system to cmake/cpack

• confirm validation process for NeXus data files NXvalidate