简介:Afterover10yearsofexistence,DELPHIoff-linesoftwarecountsaltogetherover1500klines.Beingwrittenbymultitudeofauthorsk,manyofthemhavingalreadyleft,itisveryincoherentandextremelydifficulttomaintain:itiswritteninFortran,itreliesonobsoletetoolsandithastoruninadistributedmulti-oscomputingenvironment.Still.astheanalysisofLEPdatawillcontinueduringthenext5-6years,thiscodewillhavetobeusedandbeportedtoyetanotherplatforms.Inordertoensurehighefficiencyinuseofourresources,wehavedevelopedseveraltoolswhichhidefromtheusermostoftheintricaicesoftheoperatingsystem,batchsystemanddataaccess.Thesetoolsarewellintegratedandeasytomaintain.AstheproblemsarequitetypicalfortheHighEnergyPhysicssoftware,webelievethattheideaswehaveimplementedcanbeusefulalsoforthenextgenerationofexperiments.