Baseline Solution Software

Need to design this. May be best to implement within a framework which is an embryonic form of the MROI offline software framework - but we need to design the framework!

Key Requirements/Issues for Offline Software Framework

• ISS Supervisor able to launch specific offline data analysis tasks
  • Supply parameters
• Need interactive data reduction/analysis environment
  • For algorithm development & testing, non-standard reductions
  • Plotting
  • Online help
  • Access to "standard" commands and parameters
• Data import/export from/to MCDB
  • Import monitor data, "science" data from MCDB
  • Export results (e.g. baseline solution) to MCDB
  • How to structure data?
• Usable independent of MCDB (e.g. off site)

Scripting language candidates

• Python/SciPy
• Matlab
• Octave (Matlab clone)
  • OO but no GUI capabilities
• Yorick
  • No OO
• IDL