Status reports starting with August 2001

 Monte Carlo Production

Kerberos information and workshop links have moved further down on this page.
 

•  Registering as a SAM user :  You need to take this step first in order to access data through SAM!
• General  description  of where data samples are stored in our system
• Projects to access   disk resident data samples
• Status  of the SAM system
• Status  of recent reconstruction samples

Quick Guides to DØ Software
 
• getting started with Run II software.
• installing Linux with the DØ environment
• viewing disk allocations and requesting space on Run II systems.
• The DØ event data model (  tutorial )
• The DØ framework users' guide (  MSWORD  or  ps file )
• getting started with DØ graphics
• getting started with ROOT
• quick guide to  mc_runjob , a package containing Python scripts design to aid in running D0 Offline executables
• desktop computing at DØ
• usage of the new RCP system (t65 and above)

Quick guide to the  integrated event display

 How to subscribe/unsubscribe from a Fermilab mailing list

•  Release  Users Group ( d0rug@fnal.gov  ) .  Questions and news about DØ code and specific releases. Archivesprior to July 2000, July 2000 to 5 Feb 2001, after 5 Feb 2001
• SAM Users Group (  sam-users@fnal.gov  ).  Questions and news about the data handling system.  Archive
• Linux Users Group (  d0linux-users@fnal.gov) Questions and news about linux  usage at DØ. Archive 
• NT Release Mailing List (  d0nt@fnal.gov  ) Questions and news about NT releases and usage at DØ.
• Database support at DØ  (  d0db-support@fnal.gov ) 
• ROOT support at Fermilab (  about-root@fnal.gov )
• To report system problems:    helpdesk@fnal.gov   or phone x 2345 

  TIP:  If you're sure it is a D0 system problem, start your message to helpdesk with
     Attn: d0_primary
• To contact the NT desktop admin:  d0-nt_admin@fnal.gov
• To contact the DØ Configuration Management team: d0-release-mgr@fnal.gov

•  Heidi's tutorials on DØ software (Aug 00, to be repeated Oct 00)
• C++ / OO expertise at Fermilab:  Home page for Kowalkowski/Paterno  (contains links to reviews of DØ software, OOAD and C++ examples, useful C++ links)
• Where to get C++ utilities:  ZOOM (The Fermilab Physics Class Library)

• General  description of DØ computing systems
• The  dØmino usage page 
• How to get an  account on the DØ systems
• D0 PC Support
• How to set up a new LINUX machine onsite
• How to get a  database account  for DØ databases

• DØ makes weekly test releases of all its software packages to IRIX and Linux, and subset releases to NT and OSF1.
• Expect the most recent ~ 3 test releases to be available on disk.
• Production releases currently happen separately for major products, approx every 2-3 months.
•  Status page for releases

 R2CSP pages
 

•  Overview  of how Run II Software and Computing is organized
•  Algorithms Group (Boehnlein,Melanson) 
•  Simulation Group (Li, Protopopescu);  Trigger Simulation 
•  Online Software Group (Fuess,Slattery)
•  Production and Global Systems Group (Diesburg, Klima)
•  Infrastructure Group (Hagopian, Jonckheere)  -   Tools page (includes how to get a KAI license)
•  Data Access and Databases Group (Lueking, White) -  Database page 

Offsite Computing Workshop Proceedings - April 11, 2000

Professor's Guide to Kerberos (December 01, 2000)
How to kerberize a Linux system at Fermilab
All DØ Computer Users Please Read! (6-Oct-00)
Steps 4 & 5: Another Please Read (20 Oct 00)
Rich Partridge gets Exceed 7 to work with kerberos!
Change to ssh access   is  required (OCT 1, 2000) for  DØ Central Systems
 Instructions  for downloading ssh clients for an NT desktop
 Regaining access to D0 private web pages and d0news posting