Study of Feasibility to Apply Object-Oriented Technology to HEP large-scale software

面向对象技术应用于HEP大型软件的可行性研究

• 批准号: 07640427
• 负责人: SASAKI Takashi
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: High Energy Accelerator Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1995 至 1997
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-07640427/
• 关键词: Detector Simulator; Large-scale software; GEANT Program; OO Analysis; Design; OO Programming; OO Database; High Energy Physics Experiment; 大規模ソフトウエア・プログラム; CEANTプログラム

In high-energy physics (HEP) experiments, software for data acquisition and analysis is as important as the hardware detector system. However, in the past, importance of software construction is often ignored because the detector construction is more visible and directly related to the construction cost of experiment. Along the same line, research and development activities of software technology to construct a software system in HEP have not been paid attention. This is a big contrast to the intensive research and development efforts in the HEP community for the hardware detector construction technology. In next generation major HEP experiments, the software system is complex and efforts required to construct it is not small comparing to the construction of the detector. Merit to use object-oriented technology under this condition was sometimes discussed among the software community, though its quantitative study has not been done yet. In this research and development, we tried to study of feasibility to apply object-oriented technology to HEP large-scale software. After the three years of research, we completed (1) to study feasibility of object-oriented technology to HEP software, (2) to change completely the technology to construct a software system in HEP,(3) to establish technology of world-wide software development, (4) to develop a detector simulator which can be applied from low energy physics to ultra-high energy physics.

在高能物理（HEP）实验中，用于数据采集和分析的软件与硬件探测器系统一样重要。然而，在过去，软件建设的重要性往往被忽视，因为探测器建设更直观，直接关系到实验的建设成本。沿着同样的路线，在HEP中构建软件系统的软件技术的研究和开发活动没有被关注。这与HEP社区对硬件探测器构建技术的密集研究和开发工作形成了鲜明对比。在下一代主要的HEP实验中，软件系统是复杂的，与探测器的构造相比，构造它所需的努力并不小。在这种情况下使用面向对象技术的优点在软件社区中有时会被讨论，但尚未对其进行定量研究。在本课题的研究和开发中，我们试图研究将面向对象技术应用于HEP大型软件的可行性。经过三年的研究，我们完成了（1）面向对象技术在高能物理软件中的可行性研究，（2）完全改变了高能物理软件系统的构建技术，（3）建立了全球性的软件开发技术，（4）开发了一个从低能物理到超高能物理都能应用的探测器模拟器。

项目成果

K.Amako: "The software development process in worldwide collaborations" Nucl.Phys.B(Proc.Suppl.). 61B. 669-673 (1998)

K.Amako：“全球合作中的软件开发过程”Nucl.Phys.B(Proc.Suppl.)。

尼子 勝哉、佐々木 節: "測定器シミュレーターの国際共同開発(1)" パリティ. 13,No3. 70-74 (1998)

Katsuya Amago、Setsu Sasaki：“测量仪器模拟器的国际联合开发（1）”Parity 13，No.3.70-74（1998）。

M.Nagamatsu, et al.: "Experience of Prototyping Tcl/tk-based GUI for Geant4;an Object-Oriented Toolkit for Simulation in High Energy Physics" Proceedings of The Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop'97. 187 (1997)

M.Nagamatsu 等人：“Geant4 的基于 Tcl/tk 的 GUI 原型设计经验；高能物理仿真的面向对象工具包”第五届年度 Tcl/Tk Workshop97 论文集。

S.Tanaka: "Status of GEANT4 Visualization" Proceedings of HEPVIS98. 印刷中.

S.Tanaka：“GEANT4 可视化的状态”HEPVIS98 论文集正在出版。

K.Amako, T.Sasaki: "International collaboration to develop a detector simulator (1)" Parity. Vol.13 No.4. 70-74 (1998)

K.Amako、T.Sasaki：“国际合作开发探测器模拟器 (1)” Parity。