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About
People involved
Downloads
Installation
Documentation & Puplications

About

GTgui is a grafical setup program for the Global Trigger hardware system of the CMS experiment at CERN. Its purpose is to enable the generation of an xml file that contains the global trigger configuration (i.e. trigger algorithms, thresholds) in an intuitive way. It is written in Java.

People involved

Developers: Philipp Glaser, Tobias Nöbauer
Supervisor: Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz
Support & Co-Supervisors: Hannes Sakulin, Anton Taurok, Herbert Bergauer, Manfred Jeitler

All:
Institute for High Energy Physics (Hephy) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Nikolsdorfer Gasse 18
A-1050 Vienna, Austria
(partly working at CERN, Geneva)

Downloads

latest binary release: GTgui_1.1_28-11-05.jar
scale files: scales.zip (These scales match the default ones that are included in the .jar file. Use them as a starting point for your custom scales)

Installation

System Requirements:

Executing the .jar-File

To run the .jar binary release (see Downloads below), simply type

java -jar [filename]

into your favorite console. You can try double-clicking the file in a GUI file browser as well, but this is not guaraneed to work.

Getting sources from cvs & compiling

To checkout into current directory, compile & run: (valid account required for hepcvs; contact the developers if you need one)

$ cvs -d :pserver:[username]@hepcvs.oeaw.ac.at:/data/online/cvsroot login
$ cvs -d :pserver:[username]@hepcvs.oeaw.ac.at:/data/online/cvsroot checkout gt/gtgui
$ javac -classpath ./ gt/gtgui/GTgui.java
$ java -classpath ./ gt.gtgui.GTgui

Documentation & Publications