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     Hello again


  About monitoring and the "o" packages.
 
  I am involved in the monitoring of the 
 NA48 experiment. It is clear that the
 histogramming/plotting that I have in opacs v1
 has to be improved to have a flexible system.

  In v2 I modify the Ho, Xo packages, add some
 osh commands to be able to handle histogram, plots
 in a more convenient way. In fact we are quite close
 of what offer PAW to do interactive analysis.

  The architecture of what people want for NA48
 is the following :
 - having some front end processes on some front 
   end machines that receive burst of events and
   that book/fill histograms according to 
   physicists wishes. 
 - after filling (maily at the end 
   of a burst processing) histos are sent over the
   net to an accumulation task that :
    - create an OHistogram when an 
      unknown histo is coming.
    - add the content of the incoming histo to the
      existing coresponding OHistogram if already created.
 - some visualisation tasks (built with Wo/osh), 
   started from anyway, are able to contact the accumulation
   task to ask :
    - the list of known histograms.
    - do interactive selection in the list with an 
      histogram chooser.
    - ask a list of histograms to the "acc" task.
    - display (with grid of XoPlotter widgets) the
      received histograms.
    - do fit if necessary.
    - define interactivly some "panels" of predefine
      configuration of histo/plots. 

   The communications are handle by the Cm package
 written by C.Arnault (author of Ci).

   In fact we have a prototype running over opacs v2
 without any NA48 code. If you are interested to get it, 
 let me know, I will do a distribution.

   
           Guy Barrand

barrand@lal.in2p3.fr