DIAL is a PPDG/ATLAS project to develop software and demonstrate the feasibility of distributed interactive analysis of large event data samples.
Distributed - processing done on a collection of remote nodes
Interactive - response times measured in seconds
Analysis of - event selection, filling of histograms and tuples, ...
Large datasets - more than can be conveniently analyzed in a single process;
typically event data
The initial goal of this project is to quickly demonstrate useful analysis of large ATLAS data samples by developing and implementing a design that is easily extended to meet future requirements. We will write code where needed but expect to make extensive use of existing code and the products of other PPDG and ATLAS projects.
Current deployment (release 1.30)
User Guide
Quick Demo
ATLAS services (with monitors)
ATLAS CSC production datasets
Installation
News
14feb06 - Release 1.30 of DIAL
10jan06 - The following applications and demos have been updated and tested
using atlas release 11.0.3:
atlasopt (demo6)
aodhisto (demo4)
atlasdev (demo7)
05jan06 - Work is in progress to update the published transformations
and demos so they work with ATLAS release 11.
05jan06 - Release 11.0.3 AOD's from panda production are now available.
Search for 'mc11%' in the dataset selection catalog.
08jun05 - Release 1.20 of DIAL
10apr05 - Release 1.10 of DIAL
19feb05 - Release 1.00 of DIAL
17dec04 - Release 0.94 of DIAL
Releases
See the DIAL release page for information
about DIAL releases.
The latest stable release is described
here.
The development release is described
here.
Instructions for installing DIAL may be found
here.
Instructions for deploying your own DIAL service can be found
here.
Instructions for building your own release can be found
here.
Details
Use cases
Requirements
Design
Implementation
PyDIAL
Status
Tasks
DIAL as a JDL
DIAL web service
Documents
Talks
Work plans
Savannah
Bug report
Debugging at BNL
Issues for PANDA