Nirvana Product Limitations

Has good dynamic histogramming & plotting

  • But, not a comprehensive analysis package
  • Restricts size of dataset
  • Not fully functional in its analysis capabilities
  • Output not publication quality

    ZOOM project adds disk-based, column-wise Ntuples to Histo-Scope API for Run II

  • Extensions to the Histo-Scope browser (GUI) to read and display these files not yet scheduled nor begun

    Nirvana products utilize X-Windows extensively

  • Supported only on Unix systems
  • Very difficult to port to Windows-NT or Windows-95