AXAF MST Simulation and Analysis Software

• Accessing MST Programs
• Programs
• Libraries
• Programming Resources
• Programming Utilities
• Revision Control/Configuration Managements Tools
• Documentation Tools
• Scripting Languages
• Databases
• Miscellaneous

Programs

Raytrace

programs which create or manipulate simulated photons

Analysis

various things which perform calculations, studies, or analysis

Data Visualization

oohs and ahhs for your data

Data Conversion/Translation

converting data from one format to another

Distributed processing and I/O multiplexing

distributing tasks across multiple CPU's and splitting I/O from one stream to many

Spectral Analysis

dealing with PHA spectra and their analysis and reduction

XRCF/HXDS Utilities

dealing with XRCF and HXDS issues, like converting IRIG times, etc.

Libraries

• Data Visualization
• Numerics (Algorithms, Classes)
• Coordinate System Transformations
• Data I/O (bpipe, FITS, etc.)
• DataBase
• Developer Support (Algorthims, Configuration, Input)
• Integration with Script Languages
• Inter-Process Communications
• Miscellaneous

Programming Resources

• Sun Documentation
  • docs.sun.com (remote)
  • 6.2 Compilers
    • Sun 6.2 Compiler Documentation (html) (local copy)
  • 6.1 Compilers
    • Sun 6.1 Compiler Documentation (html) (local copy)
    • Sun Solaris 64-bit Developer's Guide (Sun Answerbooks; remote); local copy PDF
  • 5.0 Compilers
    • Sun 5.0 Compiler Documentation (html) (local copy)
    • Sun C++ 5.0 Programming Guide (pdf) (local copy)
    • Sun C++ 5.0 Users Guide (pdf) (local copy)
    • Sun C++ 5.0 Library Reference (pdf) (local copy)
    • Sun C++ 5.0 Migration Guide (pdf) (local copy)
  • 4.2 Compilers
    • Sun 4.2 Compiler Documentation (html) (local copy)
• Fortran 77
  • Standard
• egcs gnu compilers
  • invoking gcc compilers
  • gcc/g++ documentation
  • gcc/g++ extensions
  • gcc cpp documentation
  • g77 documentation
  • gcj documentation
  • gcov documentation
  • gcc register transfer language documentation
  • gcc md documentation
  • GCC homepage
• FITS
  • NASA FITS Support Office The main site for FITS info.
  • HEASARC FITS Working Group documents
  • Current Standard
  • User's Guide
  • WCS Papers
  • IAU Units Manifesto
• NOAO Image Data Structure Definitions
  • Primer
• General
  • Linux Software Encyclopedia: Pointers to lots of code and links to other software repositories.
  • CodePage: lots of Programming Links (including algorithms and PERL)
  • Science, Math, Computing links
  • Assets Freeware

Programming Utilities

Revision Control/Configuration Managements Tools

CVS

Concurrent Versions System

RCS

Revision Control System

Documentation Tools

• cxx2html
  • documentation
  • home site
• doc++
  • documentation: html dvi ps
  • home site mirror site
• doxygen
  • documentation: html PS PDF
  • examples
  • home site
• html2ps: a nice HTML to PostScript translator
• htmltoc: generate a table of contents for an HTML file
• makeinfo
• man2html
• PERCEPS
  • documentation
  • local notes
  • home site
• rdb2latex: convert an rdb table into a LaTeX table
• texiupd - clean up a texinfo file (dvi, ps).
• texinfo: html, dvi, ps
• text2usage: generate a C/C++ usage function from arbitrary text
• texi2html: translate texinfo to html
  • original home
  • new home
• txt2html - convert text to html. local mirror, remote site:

Scripting Languages

• lua
  • manual: html, ps
  • local installation guide
  • home
  • see also luasup, RDBlua
• perl

Databases

RDB

RDB is a relational database system which uses a flat file ASCII format to store data.

rdbstats

compute statistics on an rdb table

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is a multi-user client/server relational database system, supporting a large subset of the SQL '92 query language.

Miscellaneous

cleantmp

Automatically clean out a directory based upon file access times

epsmerge

merge Encapsulated PostScript files

jdbtool

Java debugger tool