xdamp Version 6: An IDL®-based Data and Image Manipulation Program

Technical Report · Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1039395· OSTI ID:1039395

Ballard, William Parker ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

The original DAMP (DAta Manipulation Program) was written by Mark Hedemann of Sandia National Laboratories and used the CA-DISSPLA™ (available from Computer Associates International, Inc., Garden City, NY) graphics package as its engine. It was used to plot, modify, and otherwise manipulate the one-dimensional data waveforms (data vs. time) from a wide variety of accelerators. With the waning of CA-DISSPLA and the increasing popularity of Unix®-based workstations, a replacement was needed. This package uses the IDL® software, available from Research Systems Incorporated, a Xerox company, in Boulder, Colorado, as the engine, and creates a set of widgets to manipulate the data in a manner similar to the original DAMP and earlier versions of xdamp. IDL is currently supported on a wide variety of Unix platforms such as IBM® workstations, Hewlett Packard workstations, SUN® workstations, Microsoft® Windows™ computers, Macintosh® computers and Digital Equipment Corporation VMS® and Alpha® systems. Thus, xdamp is portable across many platforms. We have verified operation, albeit with some minor IDL bugs, on personal computers using Windows 7 and Windows Vista; Unix platforms; and Macintosh computers. Version 6 is an update that uses the IDL Virtual Machine to resolve the need for licensing IDL.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); US Department of the Navy
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1039395
• Report Number(s): SAND--2012-2779
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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