August 4, 2005
The package atlasapps has been updated to enable/require users to specify the type of data they want saved (ESD, AOD, NTUP, HIST, ...) and
the name of the file containing this data. This package is used by the ADA transformations atlasopt, aodhisto, atlasdev and atlasdev-src and the task interfaces for all those packages have changed accordingly. See the atlas_job_options task interface page at
http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/ADA/dels/trans/task_interfaces/atlas_job_options.html
for more details.
These applications and the demo tasks in the ADA catalogs have been updated. Users who define their own tasks will need to add the file output_content to their task definitions. If you prefer to use the the old applications (and thus the previous version of atlas apps), then append "-jun05" to your application name. For example, use atlasdev-jun05 in place of atlasdev.
Sites providing analysis services will need to install the new version of atlasapps as atlasapps-1.10.
The motivation for this change is to make it easier to support transformations that generate event data.
Thanks to Tadashi for his continued support of the atlasapps package. If you have questions or problems, please let him or me know.
February 11, 2004
A web page for ATLAS physics analysis tools has been established at
http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/PAT.
February 4, 2004
First draft of a document outlining catalog services is
released. See the documents page.
January 13, 2004
Version 2 of the AJDL document has been released. See the
documents page for a link.
January 6, 2004
There will be an ATLAS distributed analysis meeting Tuesday January 20
in advance of the ARDA workshop to be held the following two days.
Please inform David Adams if you
plan to attend.
January 5, 2004
The development version of DIAL now supports GSI authentication. Look
for this to be included in the next release (0.70).