The LHC Computing Grid Project

The LHC Computing Grid Project (LCG)

RTAG3 (Math Library Review) January 2002

Documents:

Final report (2-MAY-2002)

Chair: Fred James

Mandate:

Review the current situation with math libraries and make recommendations

Review the current situation of the usage of the various math libraries in the experiments (including, but not limited to, Nag-C, GSL, CLHEP, ROOT)

Identify and recommend which ones should be adopted, which ones could be discontinued

Suggest possible improvements to the existing ones

Estimate resources needed for this activity

Timescale

1 months for the initial report

2 months in total for the final report to SC2

Makeup: Experiment representatives, IT/API (CLHEP), ROOT, and additional members at chair's discretion

Members and experts: Fred James (Chair), Ivan Belyaev (LHCb), Laurent Chevalier (Atlas), Peter Hristov (Alice), Andreas Pfeiffer, (IT-API and secretary), Teddy Todorov (CMS), Mark S. Fischler (FNAL), Leif Lonnblad (Lund), Torre Wenaus (CERN/BNL)

Guidance:

	1 months for the initial report
	2 months in total for the final report to SC2