Wire-Cell News (Posts about user)

Releases 15, 16 and 17

Brett Viren — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:52:25 GMT

Releases 0.15, 0.16 and 0.17 (in prep) come with some changes worth mentioning. So, here we mention them. At length….

Some changes are "breaking" and others provide new, better ways to do things. Many are cleanups which were needed for a while. As 0.17 is not technically cut, it may have additional changes. So, sit back and read about some of the improvements that you may not yet have learned about.

Wire-Cell fans

Brett Viren — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:50:51 GMT

Of course, everyone is a fan of Wire-Cell. This post isn't about you. It's about a common pattern that is found in Wire-Cell data flow graphs and how this pattern is realized at the WCT C++ level and how to form it in WCT configuration.

Repository Reorganization

Brett Viren — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:49:32 GMT

Meet the new wire-cell-toolkit source repository.

Containers and Continuous Integration

Brett Viren — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:56:36 GMT

Previously posts have discussed Singularity containers which were introduced to provide easy development environments. Recently, Docker container descriptions have been developed to introduce Travis-CI continuous integration to the Wire-Cell Toolkit.

Signal processing now in component form

Brett Viren — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:16:43 GMT

Following in the footsteps of the recently announced porting of its functionality from the prototype to the toolkit the signal processing, is now usable in the form of WCT components. This is important as it paves the way to embedding the signal processing in other applications or frameworks, notably LArSoft.