Introduction

The PROOF Analysis Framework (PAF) is a tool to easily and quickly implement distributed analysis over ROOT trees by hiding as much as possible the inherent complexities of parallel paradigms to the final users and by providing a common framework for some of the different technologies available. The analysis of the complex LHC data usually follows a … Continue reading Introduction

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Features

A large number of functionalities have been implemented in PAF while trying to keep the configuration task as simple and automatic as possible. It has been developed with the idea of getting the best performance with an easy way to interact with it. Modular analysis framework: In our latest release, we have introduced the concept … Continue reading Features

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Design

PAF common code can be downloaded, installed and configured for personal use or in a central location through a well-defined documented procedure. Its modular design provides high adaptability to new requisites that may arise in the future. We have developed a clean and pure object oriented framework that can adapt to several different workflows and … Continue reading Design

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Developers

PAF development was started already in 2006 by Daniel Cano Fernández and Isidro González Caballero (see CHEP 2006 contribution) as a way to profit from a large (at that time) farm available at IFCA that could be used for preparing the analysis of the comming LHC data by the analysis groups at IFCA and the … Continue reading Developers

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Tutorials

We have prepared a set of tutorials to guide you at the beginning. Please fill free to follow them and leave issues or comments in Github if you find issues.

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