ROME Release Notes (Version 2.10)
Midas
Changed default MIDAS event size to 4MB. This number can be changed by an environment variable MIDAS_MAX_EVENT_SIZE. On windows, is fixed as 10 MB.
Implemented ring buffer of raw MIDAS events to allow going back in online mode.
Added 'bank alias' to allow handling multiple banks with identical midas bank name, in different event type.
Handle midas online connection in another thread to prevent to stop DAQ when ROME program is busy.
Make sure correct call sequence (Init->BeginOfRun->Event->EndOfRun->Terminate)
Added new configuration key MidasOnlineLoopPeriod to control load of midas server.
Support reading array keys in midas offline ODB.
I/O
Added configuration parameters for histogram read and write.
Performance improvement when histograms are written on a disk.
Automatic saving of histograms and trees.
GUI
Added a list tree view of tabs, which will be handy when there are many tabs.
ArgusAnalyzerController is dockable.
Added OutputFileOption
RECREATE : overwrite existing file
UPDATE : add objects in existing file
NUMBERED : create new filename with appending a number
Others
Reduction of generated code
Performance improvement of romebuilder.
Propagate affiliation of steering parameters to sub-groups and sub-parameters.
Compatibility
Support of ROOT 5.18
Support of Mac OSX 10.5.
Bug fix
Bug fix of midas DAQ which happen when reading big file. (data type int -> long long)
13/Mar/2008
Ryu Sawada
e-mail:
ryu.sawadai@cern.ch