Speaker
Dr
Thomas Kittelmann
(University of Pittsburgh)
Description
We present an event display for the ATLAS Experiment, called Virtual Point
1 (VP1), designed initially for deployment at point 1 of the LHC, the
location of the ATLAS detector. The Qt/OpenGL based application provides
truthful and interactive 3D representations of both event and non-event
data, and now serves a general-purpose role within the experiment. Thus,
VP1 is used both online (in the control room itself or remotely via a
special "live" mode) and offline environments to provide fast debugging
and understanding of events, detector status and software. In addition to
a flexible plugin infrastructure and a high level of configurability, this
multi-purpose role is mainly facilitated by the application being embedded
directly in the ATLAS offline software framework, enabling it to use the
native Event Data Model directly, and thus run on any source of ATLAS
data, or even directly from within e.g. reconstruction jobs. Finally, VP1
provides high-quality pictures and movies, useful for outreach purposes.
Author
Dr
Thomas Kittelmann
(University of Pittsburgh)
Co-authors
Dr
Edward Moyse
(University of Massachusetts)
Prof.
Joseph Boudreau
(University of Pittsburgh)
Mr
Vakhtang Tsulaia
(University of Pittsburgh)
