Organisations and groups

• DMO - ESO's Data Management and Operations Division
• DFS - The Data Flow System group

Instruments

• CRIRES - High-Resolution IR Echelle Spectrometer
• GIRAFFE - a medium-to-high resolution spectrograph covering the full optical band.
• ISAAC - VLT Infrared Spectrometer And Array Camera
• NACO - Nasmyth Adaptive Optics System
• OmegaCAM
• SINFONI - SINgle Far Object Near-ir Investigation (adaptive optics and integral field spectrometry)
• VIMOS - The VLT VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph
• VISIR - VLT Imager and Spectrometer for mid Infra Red

Pipelines

• Quality Control and Data Flow Operations

Software tools

• GASGANO a GUI for organising VLT data which also provides an intuitive and comprehensive interface to CPL-based pipeline recipes.
• EsoRex - ESO Recipe Execution Tool, a utility that allows CPL recipes to be run directly from the command line.
• CVS - Concurrent Versions System, an open-source network-transparent version control system. (Non-ESO link)
• Doxygen - a code-based documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL and to some extent PHP. (Non-ESO link)
• GCC - The GNU-C compiler. (Non-ESO link)