LOFAR Pipeline System Documentation¶
This document provides an overview of the LOFAR pipeline system. This system has largely been developed to support the LOFAR imaging pipeline, but is now being deployed for a variety of science pipelines on the LOFAR cluster. This document is split into a number of sections: the first describes the aims of the framework, the structure of a pipeline, and gives an overview of how the system fits together. The second provides details on how to run pre-defined pipelines. The third provides a tutorial introduction to writing pipelines and pipeline components. The fourth describes the framework codebase in more detail, and is intended for pipeline authors who wish to dig a little deeper, as well as those interested in developing the framework itself. The final section provides a guide to the imaging pipeline itself.
This documentation is still a work in progress. See the to-do list for upcoming improvements.
The pipeline system was developed by John Swinbank (University of Amsterdam) in 2009 & 2010, based on/extending the cuisine framework for WSRT by Adriaan renting. Since 2011, the primary maintainer are Marcel Loose and Wouter Klijn (ASTRON).
