No. 110 (00234)

Family name : Tuura
Given name : Lassi
Affiliation : Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Abbreviation : CMS
E-mail address : lassi.tuura@cern.ch
Title : Physicist analysis desktop core prototype for CMS
Authors : Lassi Tuura, on behalf of CMS experiment
Abstract : 
We present the on-going prototyping work in the IGUANA project to
develop components for a coherent physicist analysis desktop for the CMS
experiment.  Our concept is to provide a coherent desktop-like
environment where independent services integrate into a coherent,
easy-to-use and powerful "studio".  The design strategy is to make every
service available in every context where it is needed.

The prototype environment builds on the existing IGUANA GUI and
visualisation toolkit, adding tools for interactive scripting and even
queries and wizards for many common tasks.  We present a number of such
tools currently under development for CMS' 100-terabyte-scale data
challenge in spring 2004. We describe how such modules are developed
independently and integrated into a seamless desktop environment.  We
present how exploration tools such as meta data browsers can be made
available in many different contexts without building excessive
inter-module dependencies on them.