Validation of software releases for CMS

Software Systems for Tabular Data Releases

We describe two classes of software systems that release tabular summaries of an underlying database. Table servers respond to user queries for (marginal) sub-tables of the “full” table summarizing the entire database, and are characterized by dynamic assessment of disclosure risk, in light of previously answered queries. Optimal tabular releases are static releases of sets of sub-tables that a...

Parallel Compilation of Cms Software

LHC experiments have large amounts of software to build. CMS has studied ways to shorten project build times using parallel and distributed builds as well as improved ways to decide what to rebuild. We have experimented with making idle desktop and server machines easily available as a virtual build cluster using distcc and zeroconf. We have also tested variations of ccache and more traditional...

A Recommendation System for Planning Software Releases

Software/Computing for ATLAS and CMS

The demands of future high energy physics experiments towards software and computing have led the experiments to plan the related activities as a full-fledged project and to investigate new methodologies and languages to meet the challenges. The path taken by the two LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS and the current status in their plans and understandings have been broadly outlined. a) Talk given ...

Developing An Integrated Process Methodology For Interim Software Releases

This paper covers factors that make production software releases successful – design complete, requirements complete, testing complete, customer expectations set, etc., and how a production software release process may not be fitting for an interim software release due to the state of the program during an interim release – one or all of the production release success factors possibly being inc...