SATAN and SATANGD

SATAN, the System to Analyze Tremendeous Amounts of Nuclear Data, is designed to analyze data from experiments performed at GSI. SATAN offers all functions needed for the evaluation of experiments, from storage and reduction of list mode data, spectrum accumulation, and spectrum evaluation up to the graphics support for presentations and final publications.

Especially for the creation of high quality graphical pictures, an extension called SATANGD is provided. SATAN and SATANGD have been developed on the MVS operating system, and both have been used there very heavily for more than fifteen years.

However, the end of MVS life-time at GSI has been reached at the end of 1996. In order to preserve at least parts of the functionality of these packages for the future, users have written program packages which are data- and command-compatible to SATAN and SATANGD on MVS:

  • The Unix version of SATANGD runs on various Unix systems and is available as public domain software on an 'as-is' basis also outside of GSI. As main enhancement parts of the powerful SATAN fit package are supported. On GSI's central UNIX installations, SATANGD can be started with the command
                          gd
    
  • SATAN on UNIX offers an appreciable subset of the old SATAN functionality, including the support of user-written analysis programs, online coupling to the MBS, and access to MVS legacy data element libraries. On GSI's central UNIX installations, SATAN can be started with the command
                          satan
    
  • An even larger part of the SATAN functionality (fit package, data analysis) and the complete SATANGD package have been ported to VMS.
    This VMS version of SATAN can be started by calling
                          msgd
    
    or, after creation of the corresponding environment with
                  crenv name /$sgd 
    
    as a subprocess of GOOSY. Then SATAN commands can be entered in a GOOSY session with
                    sgd "SATAN-command"
    
    In order to communicate directly with the SATAN subtask, specify
                          sgd
    
    Now you can enter any SATAN command directly.
  • If you are still interested into the original SATAN system, see also SATAN in MVS.

    Horst Göringer, 5.8.99