Downloading CIAO 3.3

(07 Nov 2006) CALDB 3.2.3 has been patched to CALDB 3.2.4.

Latest CIAO Update: 12 January 2006

CIAO 3.3 is available for:

• Solaris 2.8
• Redhat Linux 6.2
• Redhat Linux 8
• Mac OS X 10.2.8

To use CIAO you also need to have the Calibration Database (CALDB) installed on your system:

• CALDB 3.2.4 (latest update: 07 November 2006)

  CIAO 3.3 requires that you have at least version 3.1.0 of the CALDB. We recommend that you upgrade CALDB to the newest version in order for your analysis to keep pace with the current calibration standards.

  Information on the changes in CALDB 3.2.4 is in the How CALDB 3.2.4 Affects Your Analysis section of the CIAO 3.3.0.1 release notes.

Some tool changes and calibration released in CIAO 3.3 and CALDB 3.2.0 affect analyses in progress, i.e. certain processing steps should be run again for greater accuracy. The How CIAO 3.3 and CALDB 3.2.0 Affect Your Analysis section of the release notes describes those changes, as well as the affected tasks.

Browser Issues

There are known problems with the CIAO download pages in Internet Explorer on the Mac OS X platform. We recommend that you choose an alternate browser - such as Safari (distributed with Mac OS X) or Mozilla Firefox - to avoid download problems.

As of CIAO 3.3, the registration page bug in the Safari browser has been fixed. When users of this browser register and download the installation files, the cookies which store user information are now set properly by the registration page. This means that you should not be prompted to register again if you wish to download files for more than one platform or return to the download pages at a later time.

What You Need to Download

Required files

To install CIAO 3.3 you need the following packages - available from the platform-specific download pages, on the European Mirror Site, or on CD via the Helpdesk - for your machine:

• Binaries: named cxc_bin_<OS name>.tar.gz
• Auxilary: named cxc_aux.tar.gz
• CALDB
• Contributed science scripts

The Installing CIAO 3.3 thread explains in detail how to install each of these software components.

Optional files

There are two optional packages - the source code and the OTS (Off The Shelf) collection of external programs/libraries used by CIAO - that can be installed. These are only needed if you wish to re-compile CIAO yourself.

Users doing spectral analysis (e.g. line indentification) may also be interested in installing the Atomic Database (ATOMDB). The ATOMDB Download page has information on this package.