An open source problem solving environment developed at Cardiff University that combines an intuitive visual interface with powerful data analysis tools. Already used by scientists for a range of tasks, such as signal, text and image processing, Triana includes a large library of pre-written analysis tools and the ability for users to easily integrate their own tools.
Triana is a graphical environment that allows you to create powerful computer programs
and to use them, with a minimum of effort and no programming.
Using Triana, you simply assemble your program from a set of building-blocks
that you drag into a work-space window and connect up using your mouse.
With a click of the mouse the program will perform whatever operations you
want. You can tell Triana to execute your program just once or continuously, as
long as data is available to it.
Since Triana is written in pure Java, it will run on almost any computer, and you
can share your work with colleagues who work on different kinds of computers.
Triana is a revolutionary new way to expand the number of things you can
do on your computer. It allows you to create serious and complex programs
without dealing with programming languages, compilers, debuggers, and error
codes.
Triana is being developed by scientists at Cardiff University in the UK. They
are working within the GEO600 gravitational wave experiment, a major physics
collaboration between scientists from Germany, Britain, and other countries.
GEO600 will generate many terabytes of numerical data each year, and Triana is
designed to make it possible for scientists in the project to examine this data in
a simple and versatile way. Triana is in use within GEO600 and in other major
centers of research in the USA and Europe. The release version of Triana will
take the same principles of easy operation and versatility, and extend them to a
variety of types: image, sound, text, and numerical data.
But you do not have to be a rocket scientist to use Triana. Like the internet, email,
the web, and web browsers, Triana is another tool initially created for scientists
that has very much wider use. Triana opens programming to people who do nost
know a programming language.
