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PAW, a general-purpose portable software tool for data analysis and presentation

1989; Elsevier BV; Volume: 57; Issue: 1-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0010-4655(89)90257-9

1879-2944

René Brun, Olivier Couet, Carlo E. Vandoni, Pietro Zanarini,

Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

During the last twenty years, CERN has played a leading role as the focus for development of packages and software libraries to solve problems related to high energy physics (HEP). The results of the integration of resources from many different laboratories can be expressed in several million lines of code written at CERN during this period of time, used at CERN and distributed to collaborating laboratories. Nowadays, this role of software developer is considered very important by the entire HEP community. In this paper a large software package, where man-machine interaction and graphics play a key role (PAW - Physics Analysis Workstation), is described. PAW is essentially an interactive system which includes many different software tools, strongly oriented towards data analysis and data presentation. Some of these tools have been available in different forms and with different human interfaces for several years.