GAUDI User Guide

LHCb

GAUDI

LHCb Data Processing Applications Framework

User Guide

Version: 6

Issue: 3

Edition: 0

Status:

ID:

Date: 8 January 2001

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:	6
	Issue:	3
	Edition:	0
	ID:
	Date:	8 January 2001
	Keywords:
Tools	DTP System:	Adobe FrameMaker	Version:	5.5
	Layout Template:	Software Documentation Layout Templates	Version:	V1 - 15 January 1999
Authorship	Coordinator:	M.Cattaneo (from October 1999) P. Maley (until September 1999)

Document Status Sheet

Table 2 Document Status Sheet
Title:	GAUDI User Guide
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 GAUDI framework
3	0	24/Nov/99	Release of version 3 of the GAUDI framework
4	1	14/Apr/00	Release of version 4 of the GAUDI framework
5	0	24/Jul/00	Release of version 5 of the GAUDI framework
5	1	26/Jul/00	Corrections to chapters 4 and 5
6	0	15/Nov/00	Release of version 6 of the GAUDI framework
6	1	27/Nov/00	Update chapter 8 and section 3.3.1
6	2	5/Dec/00	Corrections to section 6.10, Appendix B
6	3	8/Jan/01	Add first two lines of code listing 76

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 and Event Collection facilities

Chapter 11
Framework services

Chapter 12
Tools and ToolSvc

Chapter 13
Converters

Chapter 14
Accessing SICB facilities

Chapter 15
Analysis utilities

Chapter 16
Visualization Facilities

Chapter 17
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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