Physics Analysis Workstation
The Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW) is an interactive,
scriptable open source tool for data analysis and graphical
presentation in high energy physics. Developed at CERN since 1986, it
is optimized for processing very large amounts of data. It is based on
and intended for interoperation with components of CERNLIB, an
extensive collection of Fortran libraries.
PAW is conceived as an instrument to assist physicists in the
analysis and presentation of their data. It provides interactive
graphical presentation and statistical or mathematical analysis,
working on objects familiar to physicists like histograms, event files
(Ntuples), vectors, etc.
It may be run in batch mode if desired for very large and time
consuming data analyses; typically, however, the user will decide on an
analysis procedure interactively before running a batch job.
The purpose of PAW is to provide many common analysis and
display
procedures that would be duplicated needlessly by individual
programmers, to supply a flexible way to invoke these common
procedures, and yet also to allow user customization where necessary.
PAW 2.14/04
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Price
Free to download
Size
Part of the CERN program library
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
CERN
Website
paw.web.cern.ch/paw/
System Requirements
cernlib-base
gfortran
Support
Sites:
Reference
Manual, FAQ,
Tutorial
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Terminal window for command input; graphics window for
output. With PAW++ users have multiple graphics windows for in/output
- Operations on 3 data types:
- Vectors
- Histograms
- N-tuples
- Functions
- Plot user or built-in functions
- 1, 2 or 3 dimensions
- Wide range of representations
- Uses its own scripting language
- Has a Fortran intrepreter
- Supports a subset of Fortran 77
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