PROOFSERV(1)

NAME
proofserv - PROOF (The Parallel ROOT Facility)

DESCRIPTION
Using PROOF (The Parallel ROOT Facility) one can analyze trees in parallel on a cluster of computers. The PROOF system consists of the proofd(1) from-end program which is started via inetd(8).

proofd takes care of user authentication and overlays itself then with the desired version of the proofserv(1) executable.

interactive module root(1), except that it reads its commands from a socket instead of from the terminal.

Since it is a remote server it will not do graphics and therefore is not linked with any graphics libraries (Motif, X11, etc.).

SEE ALSO
proofd(1) , root(1) , rootd(1)

More information can be found at the ROOT website: http://root.cern.ch (http://root.cern.ch)

ORIGINAL AUTHORS
The ROOT team (see web page above):
    Rene Brun and Fons Rademakers

COPYRIGHT
ROOT Software Terms and Conditions

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AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@nbi.dk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).