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| ==== People involved ==== | ==== People involved ==== | ||
| - | (Present at Les Houches) Alexandre, Andreas, Ben, Benj, Björn, Csaba, Fawzi, Geneviève, Nazila, Sasha, Sezen, Pietro, ... | + | * Present at Les Houches: Alexandre, Andreas, Ben, Benj, Björn, Csaba, Fawzi, Geneviève, Nazila, Sasha, Sezen, Pietro |
| + | * Outside of Les Houches: Ben Allanach, David Cerdeno, Peter Skands, & 50+ other people representing various dark matter calculators. | ||
| ==== Useful links ==== | ==== Useful links ==== | ||
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| * Elevate the DLH agreement to a DLH Accord, | * Elevate the DLH agreement to a DLH Accord, | ||
| * Start implementing DLHA in dark matter calculators. | * Start implementing DLHA in dark matter calculators. | ||
| + | * Testing DLHA between at least two codes is essential before the final report is completed. | ||
| ==== 1st discussion ==== | ==== 1st discussion ==== | ||
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| * The table header should look like this: | * The table header should look like this: | ||
| * TABLE <name> <column> <row> | * TABLE <name> <column> <row> | ||
| - | * The name will probably be inherited from the function | + | * The name will probably be inherited from the function. |
| * In some cases, when the table can be given in different parametrizations/coordinates, the name will have to include info about about this. | * In some cases, when the table can be given in different parametrizations/coordinates, the name will have to include info about about this. | ||
| * We should consider the I/O of "external" tables, namely table I/O from/to a separate (non-DLHA) file. | * We should consider the I/O of "external" tables, namely table I/O from/to a separate (non-DLHA) file. | ||
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| * There's a problem with trying to agree upon the I/O of existing functions in existing codes, because this would restrict coding. This problem arises when directly accessing existing methods within existing codes, such as: | * There's a problem with trying to agree upon the I/O of existing functions in existing codes, because this would restrict coding. This problem arises when directly accessing existing methods within existing codes, such as: | ||
| * ''FUNCTION <name> type=<type> args=<# of args> | libName=<name of compiled library> | funcName=<name of function in library> | END_FUNCTION'' | * ''FUNCTION <name> type=<type> args=<# of args> | libName=<name of compiled library> | funcName=<name of function in library> | END_FUNCTION'' | ||
| - | * Agreement about the I/O of these directly accessed functions could severely tie the hands of the author(s) of the original code, and it is not feasible. | + | * Agreement about the I/O of these directly accessed functions could tie the hands of the author(s) of the original code. |
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| + | ==== 4th discussion ==== | ||
| + | * A DLHA reader/writer prototype can be created based on SLHA+. | ||
| + | * FUNCTION I/O should happen via arrays. | ||
| + | * We should consider agreeing about the I/O of existing methods in existing calculators. (For abundance, direct or indirect detection calculations, for example.) Then the authors of the codes could distribute a pre-compiled Linux library from which these methods could be called directly based on DLHA. | ||
| + | * We should specify the number of significant figures (16 was suggested) for numerical values. | ||
| ==== Things to do ==== | ==== Things to do ==== | ||
| * The write-up has to be updated to reflect the changes we decide to make at LH13. | * The write-up has to be updated to reflect the changes we decide to make at LH13. | ||
| * ... | * ... | ||
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