Computing Seminar

The HippoDraw analysis application and the library upon which it is built

Paul Kunz, SLAC

Abstract

HippoDraw is a highly interactive data analysis application with many features not found in other Open Source or commercial data analysis applications. HippoDraw can be used as a stand-alone application, as a module in an interactive Python session, or as a module in a PyQt application. In each case, all the highly desirable interactive features of HippoDraw are available. The C++ library upon which HippoDraw is built is very modular and easily extendable and/or useable in special applications.

About the speaker: Dr Kunz received his PhD from Princeton University in 1968 and first came to CERN that year to do an experiment at the PS as a member of the Saclay group. He then went on to Michigan State in 1971 and worked on one of the first experiments at Fermilab. He joined SLAC in 1974 where he has been ever since.

In late '70s, Dr Kunz invented the 168/E emulators and the concept of event processing via processor farms. In collaboration with CERN engineers, his processors were used as part of the "express lane" for the UA1 experiment. Dr. Kunz has been a frequent visitor to CERN lately because of the popularity of his "C++ for Particle Physicists" course which he is now giving at CERN for the 13th time since March of 1996. Overall, he has given the course 50 times through out the world to over 2000 students.