Gaudi Developers Guide v9 (outdated)

Table of Contents

• 1. Gaudi Frontmatter
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1. Purpose of the document
  • 2.2. Conventions
  • 2.3. Reporting problems
  • 2.4. Editor’s note
• 3. The framework architecture
  • 3.1. Overview
  • 3.2. Why architecture?
  • 3.3. Data versus code
  • 3.4. Main components
  • 3.5. Controlling and Scheduling
• 4. Release notes and software installation
  • 4.1. Release History
  • 4.2. Current Functionality
  • 4.3. Changes between releases
  • 4.4. Changes between release v7 and release v6
  • 4.5. Availability
  • 4.6. Using the framework
  • 4.7. Working with development releases
  • 4.8. Installation of the framework outside CERN
• 5. Getting started
  • 5.1. Overview
  • 5.2. Creating a job
  • 5.3. The main program
  • 5.4. Configuring the job
  • 5.5. Algorithms
  • 5.6. The HelloWorld implementation file
  • 5.7. Job execution
  • 5.8. Examples distributed with Gaudi
• 6. Writing algorithms
  • 6.1. Overview
  • 6.2. Algorithm base class
  • 6.3. Derived algorithm classes
  • 6.4. Nesting algorithms
  • 6.5. Algorithm sequences, branches and filters
• 7. Accessing data
  • 7.1. Overview
  • 7.2. Using the data stores
  • 7.3. Using data objects
  • 7.4. Object containers
  • 7.5. Using object containers
  • 7.6. Data access checklist
  • 7.7. Defining Data Objects
  • 7.8. The SmartDataPtr/SmartDataLocator utilities
  • 7.9. Smart References and Smart Reference Vectors
  • 7.10. Persistent storage of data
• 8. Event Data
  • 8.1. Overview
• 9. Detector Description
  • 9.1. Overview
• 10. Histogram facilities
  • 10.1. Overview
  • 10.2. The Histogram service
  • 10.3. Using histograms and the histogram service
  • 10.4. Persistent storage of histograms
• 11. N-tuple and Event Collection facilities
  • 11.1. Overview
  • 11.2. N-tuples and the N-tuple Service
  • 11.3. Event Collections
  • 11.4. Known Problems
• 12. Framework services
  • 12.1. Overview
  • 12.2. Requesting and accessing services
  • 12.3. The Job Options Service
  • 12.4. The Standard Message Service
  • 12.5. The Particle Properties Service
  • 12.6. The Chrono & Stat service
  • 12.7. The Auditor Service
  • 12.8. The Random Numbers Service
  • 12.9. The Incident Service
  • 12.10. The Gaudi Introspection Service
  • 12.11. Developing new services
• 13. Tools and ToolSvc
  • 13.1. Overview
  • 13.2. Tools and Services
  • 13.3. The ToolSvc
  • 13.4. GaudiTools
• 14. Converters
  • 14.1. Overview
  • 14.2. Persistency converters
  • 14.3. Collaborators in the conversion process
  • 14.4. The conversion process
  • 14.5. Converter implementation - general considerations
  • 14.6. Storing Data using the ROOT I/O Engine
  • 14.7. The Conversion from Transient Objects to ROOT Objects
  • 14.8. Storing Data using other I/O Engines
• 15. Scripting and Interactivity
  • 15.1. Overview
  • 15.2. How to enable Python scripting
  • 15.3. Current functionality
  • 15.4. Physics Analysis Environment
• 16. Visualization Facilities
  • 16.1. Overview
  • 16.2. The data visualization model
• 17. Framework packages, interfaces and libraries
  • 17.1. Overview
  • 17.2. Gaudi Package Structure
  • 17.3. Interfaces in Gaudi
  • 17.4. Libraries in Gaudi
• 18. Analysis utilities
  • 18.1. Overview
  • 18.2. CLHEP
  • 18.3. HTL
  • 18.4. NAG C
  • 18.5. ROOT
• 19. Appendix A References
• 20. Appendix B Options for standard components
  • 20.1. B.1 Obsolete options
• 21. Appendix C Job Options Grammar and Error Codes
  • 21.1. C.1 The EBNF grammar of the Job Options files
  • 21.2. C.2 Job Options Error Codes and Error Messages
• 22. Appendix D Design considerations
  • 22.1. D.1 Generalities
  • 22.2. D.2 Designing within the Framework
  • 22.3. D.3 Analysis Phase
  • 22.4. D.4 Design Phase