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ATLASGridJournal
r6 - 16 Mar 2010 - 14:16  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

ATLAS Grid JournalA list of ATLAS related actions on the local grid resources. Date Time User Comment 16/03/2010 1416 CJC Resubmitted 15.6.6 installation...
AddVO
NEW - 23 Jun 2009 - 16:03  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Adding a VO A guide to adding support for a new VO. In this case the motivation is to add support for vo.u psud.fr for Karl. The first attempt will be without using...
AliceBox
r9 - 31 Aug 2010 - 12:32  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

AliceBox A discussion on setting up the ALICE VOBox at Birmingham. Introduction The aim is to configure our grid resources at Birmingham to allow ALICE production...
ApelUpgrade
r2 - 30 Nov 2010 - 11:11  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Apel Upgrade A blow by blow account of how Birmingham upgraded to Apel 3.2. Introduction The upgrade process mainly followed the instructions published by Alessandra...
AtlasGridLinks
NEW - 29 Nov 2010 - 22:30  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

ATLAS Grid Monitoring Links A list of useful links concerning ATLAS Grid Activities. Panda Production Production jobs tend to have a high CPU time, and so it`s important...
AutomaticBlacklisting
r2 - 25 Oct 2012 - 14:52  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Setting up an Automatic Blacklisting Service Requirements Machine to run the service on Working Grid UI setup on this machine Ganga installed and...
BBQueueJune
r4 - 26 Jun 2009 - 22:31  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

BB Queue problem 23rd June 09 It was noted at 11:17 on 23rd June 09 that all grid jobs on BB were queued. Jobs resumed at aroudn 12:22. Conclude that it was potentially...
BirminghamTestRigSetup
NEW - 29 May 2015 - 16:17  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Creating the Master NFS Node Install with a typical SL6 Non PAE i686 kernel. This will make setup of the other machines a lot easier! Ensure in TDAQ puppet script...
BlueBEAR
r2 - 19 Jan 2010 - 12:45  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

BlueBEAR Cluster: an on campus computational facility for the University of Birmingham. On this TWiki server, it`s referred to in the following locations:
BlueBEARUI
r3 - 15 Dec 2010 - 14:44  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

BlueBEAR Grid UI A guide to submitting jobs to the grid via BlueBEAR. Introduction The BlueBEAR log in nodes provide a Grid User Interface, that can be used by anybody...
CAGE
r7 - 08 Apr 2010 - 11:14  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Birmingham CAGE Test Bench A description of Cream ce /Argus/Glexec wn/lcg cE (CAGE) test installation at Birmingham. Context ALICE have requested Birmingham install...
CertificateRenewal
r5 - 02 Sep 2009 - 09:15  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Grid Certificate Renewal A page detailing how grid certificates are renewed for grid resources. These instructions should not be followed for user certificates! General...
CreamCE
r5 - 12 Aug 2009 - 19:45  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

CreamCE A collection of thoughts and events related to setting up the first Birmingham Cream CE. Introduction ALICE requires that a Cream CE be available at Birmingham...
CreatingNewVO
NEW - 26 Sep 2012 - 16:45  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Steps to Setup a New VO Through GridPP (Neurogrid example) This page goes through the setting up of the incf.neurogrid.org VO for the INCF in order for them to start...
DellC6145Init
r24 - 23 Nov 2012 - 15:22  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Preparing Dell C6145 units for first use Ordering I ordered our Dell C6145 units using the usual Dell configurator screens. I had chosen the two motherboard version...
EdinburghGangaTutorial
r8 - 02 Dec 2015 - 08:50  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

PLEASE NOTE: This guide is very out of date. Please see https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasComputing/FullGangaAtlasTutorial instead Introduction This tutorial...
ExperimentSoftware
r3 - 27 Jul 2009 - 14:21  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Experiment Software Experiment software is typically installed by a privilaged user via a grid job. The user will have write access to the appropriate part of the...
FullClusterSetup
r4 - 04 Jan 2012 - 14:44  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Full Cluster Setup This document will go through the setup and management of the BHAM grid cluster from scratch. Setting up the Master Node A single service node...
Ganga
r4 - 24 Jan 2009 - 11:40  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Useful Ganga Resources Instructions on Using Ganga at Birmingham Running Ganga Locally (eprexA, etc.) The latest version (5.1.1) has been installed and can be run...
Ganglia
NEW - 10 Jul 2009 - 15:00  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Ganglia A description of the local installation of Ganglia. ChristopherCurtis 10 Jul 2009
GoogleGadgetsVisualisation
r3 - 22 Jun 2009 - 09:51  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61chun_32lik_32tan?

Data visualisation using Google Gadgets Introduction The advertising blurb from Google... Gadgets are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded...
Gqsub
r4 - 09 Jun 2010 - 21:32  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Simplified Submission A simplified grid submission system, based on the work conducted at the of Glasgow. qgsub The University of Glasgow have spent some time developing...
GridBackup
r2 - 10 Mar 2010 - 12:28  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Grid Backup Policy A discussion on backing up important data from the Grid nodes. Requirements The most important consideration is to make adequate back ups of all...
GridBoot
NEW - 07 Oct 2009 - 14:34  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Booting Grid Nodes An overview of how the Birmingham grid nodes boot. ChristopherCurtis 07 Oct 2009
GridFabricManagement
r3 - 07 Feb 2011 - 13:31  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Fabric Management A summary of the Birmingham Grid Fabric Management. Introduction Most grid sites use some sort of fabric management software to install, configure...
GridKernelUpdate
r2 - 27 Aug 2009 - 15:23  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Kernel Updates A sketch of how Birmingham has dealt with the Kernel Security incident. Based on article, it looks like kernel 2.6.9 89.0.9 contains the relevant fixes...
GridLayout
NEW - 22 Nov 2010 - 10:57  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Birmingham Grid Layout A map of the Birmingham Grid Nodes. Submission Nodes ALICE VOBoxes ChristopherCurtis 22 Nov 2010
GridLinks
r28 - 24 Feb 2011 - 13:32  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Grid Links A list of useful links related to Grid Operations Three Most important links Nagios UKI wide Nagios monitoring. Accounting Portal Useful...
GridProxies
r2 - 11 Aug 2009 - 15:28  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

GridProxies A guide on how to create and use them. Method 1: Long Life Proxies 1 Use voms proxy init valid XX:XX to create a proxy certificate with a very long...
HammerCloud
r15 - 26 Jan 2010 - 10:21  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

HammerCloud A diary of events related to the HammerCloud tests at Birmingham. 11th Jan 10 1060 PANDA/ANALY BHAM test failed. Problems with pilot jobs? 11th...
LocalGrid
r2 - 24 Jul 2009 - 17:42  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Birmingham Grid Resources Index to local Grid General GridLinks A list of useful grid related links. Includes SAM tests. Maintenance LocalGridJournal...
LocalGridBBintegrate
r5 - 12 Jan 2010 - 14:44  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Birmingham GRID integration into the BlueBEAR System This documents those changes to the BlueBEAR setup which were need to implement GRID which needed admin privileges...
LocalGridBBssh
r2 - 19 Jan 2010 - 12:50  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

How BlueBEAR grid workers use ssh Grid workers run under Torque and this uses the ssh protocol to copy files from the CE to the worker during the job stage in process...
LocalGridBBstartup
r9 - 10 Dec 2010 - 10:33  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

How BlueBEAR grid workers are initialised at boot time Introduction The BlueBEAR cluster operates under the ClusterVision OS method of booting: when a machine boots...
LocalGridBonding
r5 - 06 Oct 2011 - 15:01  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Local Grid Bonding General DPM performance issues The data that can be read/written from a disk pool node is limited by several factors: the speed that data...
LocalGridCookbook
r12 - 07 Feb 2011 - 13:37  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Local Grid Cookbook A How To guide on installing, monitoring and maintaining new Grid nodes at Birmingham. Solving key problems Most problems can be solved by doing...
LocalGridDPM
r10 - 02 Jul 2009 - 10:47  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Athena Access to the SE You can list files on the SE using either rfdir or dpns ls: rfdir /dpm/ph.bham.ac.uk/home/atlas/atlasmcdisk/mc08/ dpns ls l /dpm/ph.bham.ac...
LocalGridInternals
r25 - 05 Jan 2011 - 10:49  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Local Grid Internals This is a local topic intended for grid related notes by Lawrie Lowe and Chris Curtis. Types of node CE role CEs are epgce3, epgce4 (as of 1st...
LocalGridJournal
r14 - 01 May 2013 - 17:33  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Local Grid Journal 2013 This is a reverse order diary of events, without retrospective editing (so keep it raw and short, max ~ 3 lines). See other pages like LocalGridInternals...
LocalGridJournal2009
NEW - 19 Jan 2010 - 15:47  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Local Grid Journal 2009 This is a reverse order diary of events, without retrospective editing (so keep it raw and short, max ~ 3 lines). See other pages like LocalGridInternals...
LocalGridJournal2010
r3 - 09 Jan 2013 - 14:44  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Local Grid Journal 2010 This is a reverse order diary of events, without retrospective editing (so keep it raw and short, max ~ 3 lines). See other pages like LocalGridInternals...
LocalGridJournal2011
r3 - 09 Jan 2013 - 14:44  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Local Grid Journal 2011 This is a reverse order diary of events, without retrospective editing (so keep it raw and short, max ~ 3 lines). See other pages like LocalGridInternals...
LocalGridJournal2012
r27 - 08 Jan 2013 - 15:52  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Local Grid Journal 2012 This is a reverse order diary of events, without retrospective editing (so keep it raw and short, max ~ 3 lines). See other pages like LocalGridInternals...
LocalGridLogs
r4 - 25 Jun 2009 - 15:33  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

Local Grid Logs A list of useful log files and their locations. General/Common Name Location Useful For System messages /var/log/messages Everything...
LocalGridMachines
r41 - 12 May 2011 - 13:59  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Local Grid Machines A database of useful information related to the Birmingham Grid Machines. Physical Machines Name Arch Prod? IP MAC OS...
LocalGridPilotAdd
r2 - 01 Jun 2009 - 15:12  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Adding Pilot roles to system, May 2009 There was a useful page on doing this: Enabling theLHCb/ATLAS pilot roles. Following that through: Introduction The fair share...
LocalGridRaidCreate
r5 - 28 Jun 2010 - 10:43  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Creating RAID logical drives at the RAID firmware level A fresh delivered Infortrend RAID needs to have some preparation steps performed before it is ready to be formatted...
LocalGridRaidFormat
r4 - 27 Apr 2012 - 13:52  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Initialising new Local Grid RAID Putting a GPT partition table on each RAID lun When you are creating a single file system on a whole RAID lun, it`s not strictly...
LocalGridTopics
r10 - 09 Jan 2013 - 14:45  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

LocalGridInternals LocalGridJournal and LocalGridJournal2012 and LocalGridJournal2011 and LocalGridJournal2010 and LocalGridJournal2009 LocalGridLogs...
LocalPrepFedora17
r5 - 07 Jan 2013 - 16:33  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Installing Fedora from scratch In our normal high availability setup, we don`t install a new operating system on every PC using the provided standard anaconda method...
NonLHCVOSupport
NEW - 23 Oct 2012 - 14:28  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

A Guide for Non LHC Users of the Grid Here are a set of links/docs that is aimed to help non LHC VO members get the most out of the grid. Middleware Links Steps...
OxfordGangaTutorial
r8 - 11 Dec 2008 - 12:06  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Oxford Ganga Tutorial (17/12/2008) OxfordGangaTutorialSession1 OxfordGangaTutorialSession2 OxfordGangaTutorialAtlasSession1 OxfordGangaTutorialAtlasSession2 OxfordGangaTutorialAtlasS...
OxfordGangaTutorialAtlasSession1
r2 - 13 Dec 2008 - 17:12  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Introduction to Athena and the Atlas Computing Model This session will introduce Athena and how to do a basic analysis. It will not go into this in depth at all as...
OxfordGangaTutorialAtlasSession2
r4 - 14 Dec 2008 - 12:38  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Athena and Ganga We will now use Ganga to create some Athena jobs on the local batch system. Setting up Ganga for Athena In order to run Athena jobs within Ganga...
OxfordGangaTutorialAtlasSession3
r6 - 16 Dec 2008 - 08:13  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Athena on the Grid The Atlas Computing Model The Atlas Computing Model has been introduced in order to ensure the most efficient use of the resources on the Grid...
OxfordGangaTutorialSession1
r5 - 13 Dec 2008 - 15:20  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Session 1 General Ganga Usage This session aims to go through the main principles of Ganga and it`s general usage outside the particular experimental flavours....
OxfordGangaTutorialSession2
r4 - 13 Dec 2008 - 15:51  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Session 2 Using Ganga to Access the Grid In this session we will submit simple jobs to the grid and learn a little about the underlying grid tools. Preparing your...
RALDownTime
r2 - 25 Jun 2009 - 14:18  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

RAL Down Time An account of changes made to the local system to cope with the RAL Down Time in Jun/Jul 2009 The Problem RAL is moving their Tier 1 Services to a new...
RaidWN
NEW - 31 Aug 2010 - 14:19  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61christopher_32curtis?

RAID Worker Nodes A short note about RAIDing the two physical drives attached to our Grid Worker Nodes. ChristopherCurtis 31 Aug 2010
RootTips
r2 - 03 Oct 2008 - 12:50  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Cambridge_47L_61UCS_47CN_61karl_32harrison002?

General appearance Set background colour To replace a grey background with white, use: c1 SetFillColor(10); where c1 is the canvas name. It`s also possible to use...
S4810Init
r18 - 29 Apr 2013 - 17:35  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Initialising a Dell Force10 S4810 switch A S4810 switch does not come configured, so needs to be configured even to act as a layer 2 switch. To quote the manual, initially...
SL5WN
r17 - 07 Jun 2018 - 14:40  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61mark_32slater?

Installing SL5 on the Birmingham Worker Nodes The aim of this project is to install SL5 on the Birmingham Worker Nodes. The plan is as follows: Move one worker...
SamsungN150Plus
r3 - 25 Mar 2011 - 17:11  _47C_61UK_47O_61eScience_47OU_61Birmingham_47L_61ParticlePhysics_47CN_61lawrence_32lowe?

Samsung N150 Plus netbook for Windows and Linux Quick look at the hardware The N150 Plus comes with 10 inch screen resolution 1024x600, 250 GB disk, Intel Atom N...
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WebHome
r16 - 06 Mar 2019 - 09:05  _2fC_3dUK_2fO_3deScience_2fOU_3dBirmingham_2fL_3dParticlePhysics_2fCN_3dmark_20slater?

Welcome to the 1 web Software Guide to the local Linux system WebPageModificationGuide Guide to modifying webpages on the EP group website RootTips...
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