XDAQ... It's not a matter of how good you are, It's a matter of how good you want to be

XDAQ is a software platform designed specifically for the development of distributed data acquisition systems. The development is carried out at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. XDAQ is the definitive across the board middleware that eases the tasks of designing, programming and managing data acquisition applications by providing a simple, consistent and integrated distributed programming environment. The framework builds upon industrial standards, open protocols and libraries.

All CMS OS official documentation is available through EDMS.

Get started with the following documents to get into the CMS OS world:

User's Support Guide '''Read me first!

User's Manual

Developers Manual

Generic Makefile (In Work)

Further technical references about the CMS OS project

Configuration Management Plan

Configuration Management Procedures

Some outdate TWiki pages

XDAQ TWiki page

Release are made available through a YUM repository for CERN Scientific Linux (SLC,CentOS) distributions:

Release 16.0.0 (CentOS8 64 bit, g++ (GCC) 8.2.1, C++11/14, Expected 1st quarter 2021 )

Release 15.x.x (CentOS7 64 bit, Based on Software Collections 8, g++ (GCC) 8.2.1, C++11/14, Core YUM repository and Worksuite YUM repository ] software change notice, API Reference

Release 14.x.x - XDAQ Tanuki ¹ YUM repository for (CentOS7 64 bit), software change notice, API Reference

¹. Refers to software releases based on new YUM/RPM naming convention after the migration from SVN/Trac to GitLab. Please read Release Notes document in detail.

Previous Stable Releases

Release 14.4.0 YUM repository for (CentOS7 64 bit), software change notice, API Reference (stable)

Release 13.4.0 YUM repository for (SLC6 64 bit), software change notice, API Reference (frozen - please upgrade to Release 14.x)

Release 12.8.0 YUM repository for (SLC6 64 bit), software change notice, API Reference (deprecated)

Release 11.2.7 YUM repository for (SLC5, 32/64 bit - SLC6 64 bit), software change notice, API Reference (deprecated)

Release 10.3.3 YUM repository for (SLC4, i386), software change notice, API Reference 'deprecated)

Release 9.7.0 YUM repository for (SLC4, i386), software change notice, API Reference (deprecated)

Release 8.2.2 YUM repository for (SLC4, i386), software change notice, API Reference (deprecated)

Release 7 (SLC4, i386) (deprecated)

Release 6 (SLC4, i386) (deprecated)

XDAQ 9.5 is the software used at CMS online on the first circulating LHC beam 2009

XDAQ 10.0.2 is the software used at CMS online on the Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC 2010

XDAQ 12.0.0 is the software used at CMS online on Run 2

XDAQ 14.0.0 CentOS 7 platform

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