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- | ====== Available packages on the LOFAR offline clusternodes ====== | ||
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- | This page gives an overview of available packages, other than the ' | ||
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- | ===== Packages ===== | ||
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- | ^ Package ^ Description ^ Initialize^ Update frequency ^ Comments ^ | ||
- | | [[#Casa]] | Browser, viewer | '' | ||
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- | | grid | | | | | | ||
- | | hdf5 | library | -- | infrequent | Used by other packs, now 1.8.2 | | ||
- | | hdf5viewer | | -- | infrequent | | | ||
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- | | pipeline | | | | | | ||
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- | | wcslib | library | -- | infrequent | Used by other packs, now 4.3 | | ||
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- | ===== Descriptions of Packages ===== | ||
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- | ==== Casa ==== | ||
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- | This is the NRAO developped package that provides Graphical interfaces like those available in the old AIPS++ packages. It provides the following useful tools (see directory ''/ | ||
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- | * casabrowser -> A table browser (much like the old glish-based browser) | ||
- | * casaplotms -> A tool to make 2-D plots of data in a MS | ||
- | * casaviewer -> Visualizer | ||
- | * casapy -> Casa's Python interface. | ||
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- | Extensive documentation can be found [[http:// | ||
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- | The current version (as of Jan 14th 2010) is Casa 3.0.0 (1st stable release of NRAO). | ||
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- | ==== LofIm ==== | ||
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- | The package LofIm (Lofar Imaging) consists of the following previously known subpackages: | ||
- | * casacore | ||
- | * casarest | ||
- | * pyrap | ||
- | * LOFAR | ||
- | * ASKAPsoft | ||
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- | All these are build every night in a single go, with source code extracted from each package' | ||
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- | To activate it on commandline use: | ||
- | > use LofIm | ||
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- | This will activate the version that was build last night. It will add all settings needed to use the subpackages toyour '' | ||
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- | As all of the individual subpackages are in a development phase, we **cannot** guarantee that each nightly build is bugfree, or even that is has succeeded. Therefore, we keep a '' | ||
- | > use LofIm <day> (e.g., use LofIm Wed) | ||
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- | If the problem that caused a build to fail has not been solved in a week's time, you will not be able to use the package until it has been fixed. In due time we will implement a system with a release policy, that will enable you to use ' | ||
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- | ==== GDL ==== | ||
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- | The GDL package contains the following subpackages: | ||
- | - [[http:// | ||
- | - [[http:// | ||
- | - [[http:// | ||
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- | These work together and form a useful packages used by the Pulsar group. | ||
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- | ==== Pythonlibs ==== | ||
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- | We have made available several useful Python modules. These can be activated with a single command: | ||
- | > use Pythonlibs | ||
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- | (see [[public: | ||
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