General Information
The Data Analysis Software Committee is responsible for organizing the development of data analysis software for the Collaboration. This committee is composed of chairs of the of that committee is These web pages are intended to be a resource for Software and computing in the LSC is coordinated by the Data Analysis Software Committee and the Computing Committee. These groups The development of software and computing for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration is organized The data analysis sofware working groups of the LIGO Scientific Computing and software development is organized The DASWG is a working group of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration which is open to all LSC members who are interested. It holds regular and frequent membership meetings, both by telecon and at LSC meetings. It has a Chair, named by the LSC Spokesperson. One distinctive structural feature is the existence of a Steering Committee, chaired by the WG Chair. The role of the Steering Committee is to broker consensus on issues where discussions of the general membership have been unable to find consensus.
Weekly telecon
The working group holds a weekly telecon at 12:00 Pacific time every Wednesday. Dates and dial-in instructions are posted under Participate > Telecon; the agenda and minutes of each meeting are posted at Docs > MinutesNews
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(9 July 2008) The wiki entry for the S6 online software
developtment/deployment project can be found at
S6 Online Working Group.
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(10 Aug 2005) The agenda for DASWG sessions at the LSC meeting can be found
at Docs > Minutes. (Or directly
at 16/17 Aug 2005 at LSC Meeting)
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(12 February 2005) Various HOWTO documents are becoming available
to help people find their way around using LSC data analysis
software. See the links at Docs > Howto [ HTML ]
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(12 February 2005) The DASWG software repositories are finaly
available to get software needed for LSC data analysis.
Instructions can be found at Download > Repositories [ HTML ]
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(25 August 2004) For those who care how these pages render,
I've added screenshots of this page as rendered in a mozzilla
1.4.2, firefox 0.9.3, netscape 7.0.2 and opera 7.51 in this
sudirectory
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- (3 July 2004) The LSCSoft CVS archive is now open for business.
Please note that the pserver is on port 2402 (instead of the
default 2401). Follow the instructions in the LSCSoft CVS HOWTO
[ HTML ]
to find out how to set up your CVSROOT and how to get a passwd if
you don't already have one.
- (31 Mar 2004) Documents describing LSC conventions, data
formats, and quality assurance requirements are now available under
Docs > Technical.
- (29 Mar 2004) LAL/LALApps Howto has been added to the
Docs > Howto section of the DASWG
web pages.
- (29 Feb 2004) We've started to put together requirements on LSC
software. Similar documents will generally be available under the
Docs > Technical
section of this web page. The first such document is the zeroth
draft of LSC
Software Requirements .