Most recently modified on 10 Nov 2006.

CMS OO Reconstruction

This is the home page for information related to the ORCA program for CMS Reconstruction. Contact: Wolfgang Adam

Goto: Manuals, Mailing Lists, Feedback, Tutorials, Talks, Bugs, Developers Corner, TWiki
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Related projects: COBRA, Geometry, IGUANA, OSCAR, FAMOS, IGUANACMS, SCRAM, CRAB, OVAL, LCG-App LPC (US-CMS)
SCRAM commands:
- up to ORCA_8_7_x: (i.e. "scram") after "setenv SCRAM_ARCH slc3_ia32_gcc323"
- higher versions "scramv1" and no setenv command

News: ORCA_8_13_3 released

Snapshot documentation:
ReferenceManual, UserGuide
Code browsing:
ViewCVS ( location at CERN: /afs/cern.ch/cms/Releases/ORCA/ORCA_x_y_z) - LXR

Version

Date

Valid until

Reference manual*

Userguide


ORCA_8_13_3

13 Mar 2006

PTDR Vol.II

HTML  Release notes

   

ORCA_8_13_1

21 Oct 2005

30 Jun 2006

broken

PS(2A4) PS PDF HTML

Download

ORCA_8_9_4

5 Oct 2005

30 Jun 2006

HTML  Release notes

PS(2A4) PS PDF HTML

Download

ORCA_8_7_4

23 Jul 2005

23 Dec 2005

Documentation inpossible  Dependencies

PS(2A4) PS PDF HTML

Configuration
Download

ORCA_8_7_3

24 Feb 2005

23 Dec 2005

HTML  Release notes  Dependencies

PS(2A4) PS PDF HTML

Configuration
Download

ORCA_8_7_1

16 Dec 2004

23 Dec 2005

HTML  Release notes  Dependencies

PS(2A4) PS PDF HTML

Configuration
Download

ORCA_7_6_1

26 Jan 2004

21 Dec 2004
Digitization

HTML  Release notes 

PS(2A4) PS PDF HTML

Configuration, Patch
Download

ORCA_8_6_1

25 Nov 2004

21 Dec 2004
obsolete

HTML  Release notes  Dependencies

PS(2A4) PS PDF HTML

Configuration
Download

*The Reference manual is created with the program "doxygen". Documentation for this program: HTML

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Manuals

For beginners: Read the "Getting started" section in the Userguide.
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For developers: Click here for information on how to write documentation for UserGuide and ReferenceManual.
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