Revision/Update Information: Version 20.37, February 2024    

(C) Copyright CERN 1991. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. Permission to use and/or redistribute this work is granted under the terms of the GPL License. The DIM Core (without Web interface) is also available under LGPL License. The software and documentation made available under these terms are provided with no warranty.

• Introduction
• Availability and Tools
• Some Performance Measurements
• Configuring DIM across different networks
• User Manual
• Download DIM for: Windows or UNIX/Linux
• Download the DIM Core without Web Interface
  (The Web Interface, WebDID, uses the Sencha Ext-JS library which is licensed under GPL, so it can not be distributed under LGPL)

    The following DIM Interfaces are available

• WebDID
• PyDIM
• Interface to WinCC-OA
• Interface to LabVIEW

• DIM - A Distributed Information Management System for the Delphi experiment at CERN (ps) Presented at: IEEE Eight Conference REAL TIME '93 on Computer Applications in Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics (Vancouver, June 8-11 1993)
• A Highly Distributed Control System for a Large Scale Experiment (ps) Presented at: 13th IFAC workshop on Distributed Computer Control Systems - DCCS'95 (Toulouse, Sep 27-29 1995)
• The Delphi experiment Control System (ps) Presented at: 1st IEEE Conference on the Engineering of Complex Computer Control Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Nov 6-10 1995)
• Controlling a Large Physics Experiment; a Communication Issue (ps) Published in: IFAC Journal - Control Engineering Practice (Vol.4 Num. 2, Feb 1996)
• DIM, a Portable, Light Weight Package for Information Publishing, Data Transfer and Inter-process Communication (pdf) Presented at: International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Padova, Italy, 1-11 February 2000)