The Bernese Processing Engine (BPE) is a powerful tool for automatically processing large amounts of data. To help Bernese users become familar with the BPE, the University of Berne has developed an example data set for users to learn with.

This tutorial outlines the steps required to install and run the bernese software using the BPE. It also will provide hints on how to apply the BPE for processing your own data sets.

The following is an outline of the BPE tutorial. As each section is finished, it will be connected to the outline with hyperlinks.

Online Tutorial

• Introduction
• Installing the software
  • installing software
  • compiling software (size of executables)
  • install user environment (LOADGPS)
• Configuring computer network system to run BPE
• Create Campaign Directory
• Install Example Data Set
• Configuring the BPE
  • Edit and Check the PCFCTL.CPU file
  • Check the PCF
  • Check the Scripts
  • check option directories
• Running the BPE Process Control Script (PCS) from the menu system
  • Starting a PCS from the beginning of a PCF
  • Starting BPE in the middle of a PCF
• Checking Output
• Creating your own PCF, Scripts and Option Directories
  • building a PCF
  • writing your own BPE scripts
  • creating and modifying option directories
• Troubleshooting and FAQ
  • PCS won't start
  • PCS looks like it is in an infinite loop

Last modified Thursday, 17-Nov-2005 03:58:00 UTC