The Gaudi Framework

Welcome to the Gaudi framework project website. The Gaudi project is a open project for providing the necessary interfaces and services for building HEP experiment frameworks in the domain of event data processing applications. The Gaudi framework is experiment independent.

Announcements

Latest current public release v23r2 (2012-03-28). You can find a summary of the latest modifications in the release notes and detailed description of the classes in the doxygen pages.

To have access to all the available versions, please follow this link.

You can also peek at the pre-release notes in SVN.

Documentation

Design and User Guide

Scenarios and Requirements Document (version 1.0) (pdf) [last modified: 1998-11-20]
Architecture Design Document (version 1.0) (pdf, ps) [last modified: 1998-11-20]
User Guide (pdf, 2up pdf, html) [last modified: 2001-12-19 (version 9)]
Tips and Tricks
The Gaudi Testing Infrastructure on the Gaudi Twiki site
Organization of the Gaudi SVN Repository.
How-To Migrate to Gaudi v21.

Publications

Clemencic M. et al., Recent developments in the LHCb software framework Gaudi, Proc. of CHEP 2009
Cattaneo M. et al., Status of the GAUDI event-processing framework, Proc. of CHEP 2001 [pdf]
Barrand G. et al., GAUDI - A software architecture and framework for building LHCb data processing applications, (longpaper) Proc. of CHEP 2000 [pdf]

Project Management

The Savannah Project Pages. For requests and bug reports .
Mailing lists:
- There is also Gaudi Talk mailing list for general discussion about the framework.
- If you are interested in the project and want to participate in the development there is the Gaudi Developers mailing list. The instructions for the subscription are located at the Savannah main page.
Code Repository:
The source code of Gaudi is hosted by the CERN Central SVN Service. It can be accessed via:
- Trac interface
- WebSVN interface
- svn anonymous access: http://svnweb.cern.ch/guest/gaudi
- svn authenticated access: svn+ssh://svn.cern.ch/reps/gaudi
The description of the repository organization is available on a twiki page.

An experimental GIT repository is also accessible via http with
- git clone http://cern.ch/gaudi/Gaudi.git

Links

Framework Users

LHCb Computing
ATLAS Athena framework
HARP Gaudino framework
Fermi (previously GLAST)
Daya Bay's NuWa framework
MINERvA
BESIII BOSS framework
LBNE (Long Baseline Neutrino Detector, WCD group), see also GARPI project

Related LCG Projects

POOL	savannah	Persistency framework
SEAL	savannah	Core librairies and utilities
ROOT	savannah	Data analysis framework
PI	savannah	Physicist Interface (recently replaced by the internal package GaudiPI)
COOL	savannah	Conditions database project
CORAL	NA	COmmon Relational Abstraction Layer
Reflex	savannah	Provides customizable python and C++ reflexion. Originally component of SEAL and now integrated in the ROOT framework
RELAX	savannah	RELAX provides Reflex C++ dictionaries for common used libraries and C++ classes installed in the LCG external libraries area

The Gaudi Project