Portable Analysis Environment using Virtualization Technology (WP9-1)

The aim of this project is to provide a baseline Virtual Software Appliance [1] for use by LHC experiments at CERN [2] . This appliance should provide a complete, portable and easy to configure user environment for developing and running LHC data analysis locally and on the Grid [3] independent of physical software and hardware platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS). This should minimize the number of platforms (compiler-OS combinations) on which experiment software needs to be supported and tested thus reducing the overall cost of LHC software maintenance.

The project is hosted in CERN/PH/SFT [4] group with participation from LHC experiments.

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