GAUDI User Guide

LHCb

GAUDI

LHCb Data Processing Applications Framework

User Guide

Version: 3

Issue: 1

Edition: 1

Status:

ID: [Document ID]

Date: 24 November 1999

European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Laboratoire Européen pour la Physique des Particules
CH-1211 Genève 23 - Suisse

Document Control Sheet

Table 1 Document Control Sheet
Document	Title:	GAUDI User Guide
	Version:	3
	Issue:	1
	Edition:	1
	ID:	[Document ID]
	Status:
	Created:	[Document Creation Date]
	Date:	24 November 1999
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Document Status Sheet

Table 2 Document Status Sheet
Title:	GAUDI User Guide
ID:	[Document ID]
Version	Issue	Date	Reason for change
1	0	7/Feb/99	First official (non-draft) version
1	1	10/Feb/99	Minor corrections to installation chapter
2	0	18/Jun/99	Release of version 2 of the the GAUDI framework
3	0	24/Nov/99	Release of version 3 of the the GAUDI framework

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Introduction

Chapter 2
The framework architecture

Chapter 3
Release notes and software installation

Chapter 4
Getting started

Chapter 5
Writing algorithms

Chapter 6
Accessing data

Chapter 7
LHCb Event Data Model

Chapter 8
Detector Description

Chapter 9
Histogram facilities

Chapter 10
N-tuple facilities

Chapter 11
Framework services

Chapter 12
Converters

Chapter 13
Accessing SicB facilities

Chapter 14
Analysis utilities

Chapter 15
Visualization Facilities

Chapter 16
Design considerations

Appendix A
References

Appendix B
Options for standard components

Appendix C
Job Options Grammar and Error Codes

Appendix D
LHCb Event Data Model

Index

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