PPA SCA Data Handling Group
Within the PPA Scientific Computing Applications group the Data Handling team is responsible for providing tools to enable scientists to efficiently process and analyze large amounts of data for a variety of experiments at the laboratory. The group works on graphical and web based monitoring, analysis and visualization tools and tools for processing, storing and cataloging High-Energy and Astrophysics data.
Team Members
- Dan Flath
- Charlotte Hee
- Karen Heidenreich
- Tony Johnson
- Max Turri
Experiments
The data handling team is working closely with the following experiments:
- Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT)
- Enriched Xenon Observatory (EXO)
- Cryogenic Dark Matter Survey (CDMS)
- Detector R&D for future accelerators
- LSST
Projects
Automated processing Pipeline and Data Catalog
Web based Data Monitoring and Control
Java based Visualization and Analysis tools
Open source Java libraries for Scientific Computing 
Other projects/tools
- LCIO - Language/experiment independent IO format.
- Collabative web based tools: Confluence, JIRA, discussion forums (forum.linearcollider.org, forum.freehep.org).
- Subversion and CVS repositories and automated build tools.
Future Technologies
We are actively exploring the use of tools such as Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for interactive web applications and the use of cloud computing for scientific data processing.