Open AccessLuiza: Analysis Framework for GLORIA
Author(s) -
Aleksander Filip Żarnecki,
L. W. Piotrowski,
L. Mankiewicz,
Sebastian Małek
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
acta polytechnica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1805-2363
pISSN - 1210-2709
DOI - 10.14311/1718
Subject(s) - modular design , simple (philosophy) , computer science , code (set theory) , task (project management) , raw data , computational science , programming language , systems engineering , engineering , philosophy , set (abstract data type) , epistemology
The Luiza analysis framework for GLORIA is based on the Marlin package, which was originally developed for data analysis in the new High Energy Physics (HEP) project, International Linear Collider (ILC). The HEP experiments have to deal with enormous amounts of data and distributed data analysis is therefore essential. The Marlin framework concept seems to be well suited for the needs of GLORIA. The idea (and large parts of the code) taken from Marlin is that every computing task is implemented as a processor (module) that analyzes the data stored in an internal data structure, and the additional output is also added to that collection. The advantage of this modular approach is that it keeps things as simple as possible. Each step of the full analysis chain, e.g. from raw images to light curves, can be processed step-by-step, and the output of each step is still self consistent and can be fed in to the next step without any manipulation.