The LAL webpage

An up to date release of the LAL - and a wealth of other information - can be obtained from the LAL webpage http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/lal/

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Current distribution" You can can click to down load the tar ball with all the code.

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Report a bug: You can click to enter the LAL bug reporting system.

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LAL software librarian: You can click to email the librarian.

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LSC software coordinator: Click to email your gripes to the software coordinator.

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The LAL-Spec: www.ligo.caltech.edu/docs/T/T990030-07.pdf

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The CVS tree: There are instructions on how to download the latest version of LAL from the cvs. Installation instructions can be found in the lal directory in a file called INSTALL

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Previous releases of LAL: If you want an older version for sentimental reasons, you can find it here.

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Data: You can surf to the LIGO data archive to get data. There is a short snippet of 40-m data called lal.small for testing. This snippet of data is not subject to the access restrictions that some of the other segments are.

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Links to other useful software: In order to fully use the LAL, you will need to install the these packages:

• FFTW: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. This must be installed in order to install the LAL.
  
• MPI: For parallel coding. This is optional.
  
• frames: Package for reading frame format data. This is optional. In order to test these routines you will need some frame data. [See Data above.]