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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 | | | ||
- | | [[# | ||
- | | pipeline | | | | | | ||
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- | | [[#LUS|LUS (Lofar User Software)]] | USG [[engineering: | ||
- | | 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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- | * '' | ||
- | * '' | ||
- | * '' | ||
- | * '' | ||
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- | Extensive documentation can be found [[http:// | ||
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- | * The release and helpdesk can be obtained from http:// | ||
- | * Details about the release including new capabilities, | ||
- | * We are also pleased to announce the creation of a new CASA wiki with fully annotated tutorials and tips: http:// | ||
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- | The current version (as of May 27th 2011) is Casa 3.2.0 . | ||
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- | Casa uses the IERS measures tables that are provided by the distribution; | ||
- | measures.directory: | ||
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- | ==== Casacore ==== | ||
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- | We make available official releases of casacore for people that like to develop against stable libraries of casacore. The latest development version of casacore is available in the [[#LofIm]] package described below. The current release is version 1.2.0. | ||
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- | For documentation, | ||
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- | Casacore uses the IERS measures tables that are in ''/ | ||
- | measures.directory: | ||
- | </ | ||
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- | ==== LofIm ==== | ||
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- | The package LofIm (Lofar Imaging) consists of the following 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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- | LofIm uses the IERS measures tables that are in ''/ | ||
- | measures.directory: | ||
- | </ | ||
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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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- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
- | * [[http:// | ||
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- | ==== LUS ==== | ||
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- | The LUS stands for Lofar User Software. It is a part of the User Software Groups (USG) software package. The main packages that are build are the DAL (Data Access Layer) and the Pulsar package (TEMPO, Presto, pulp, etc.). Information about these packages can be obtained by Lars Baehren (DAL, build system) or Anastasia Alexov (Pulsar software). | ||
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- | The LUS is build on a daily basis on lfe001 and lhn001 and is available on all cluster nodes. To activate it type:< | ||
- | > use LUS | ||
- | or | ||
- | > use LUS < | ||
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- | It will add items to the '' | ||
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