CVS among physicists

CVS is popular among physicists. It is particularly useful for collaborations which involve geographically and institutionally dispersed contributors, and is also used within individual organizations. A few of the places using CVS:

EPICS: Experimental Physics Industrial Control System (a joint U.S./European project with about 70 sites)

EPICS is a set of software tools and applications originally developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory for the purpose of building distributed control systems to operate devices such as Particle Accelerators, Large Experiments, Telescopes, etc. The site includes a description of how CVS is, in the words of one EPICS engineer, "An enabling technology."

Fermilab

The report of the Code Management Working Group of the Physics Analysis Tools department of Fermilab describes the use of CVS, and some extensions to CVS, which are in use there.

CERN

CERN is using CVS in projects such as the sl++ scientific library and the RD13 data taking software. CERN has a CVS page with links to various CVS resources. Disclaimer: a number of these pages are from several years ago and/or describe older versions of CVS; I don't know whether they reflect the current use of CVS at CERN.

Linux and physicists

Not quite the same topic as CVS, but I'm sure there is overlap.

• Avalon, Linux cluster at Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, NM, USA. They say "We don't use Linux because it is free [zero cost]. We use it because it has open source code, superior networking performance, and is being developed in an open and accessible manner . . . we just want to run our physics simulations using the best hardware and software that we can find."

Being added to this page

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