The STAR experiment

You can tell if transfers are working from the messages in your terminal window.

You can monitor the transfer rate on the pdsfgrid1 ganglia page on the “bytes_in” plot. However, it’s also good to verify that rrs is entering the files into the file catalog as they are sunk into HPSS. This can be done with get_file_list.pl:

I suggest creating your own subdirectory ~/hrm_grid similar to ~hjort/hrm_grid. Then copy from my directory to yours the following files:



srm.sh

hrm

bnl.rc

drmServer.linux (create the link)

I suggest creating your own subdirectory ~/hrm_g1 similar to ~hjort/hrm_g1. Then copy from my directory to yours the following files:



setup

hrm

pdsfgrid1.rc

hrm_rrs.rc

Catalog.xml (coordinate permissions w/me)

We set up a Subversion repository at MIT to track a few pieces of software that many of us are using, but that don't fit into the STAR framework.

Browsing and Checking Out Code

http://deltag5.lns.mit.edu/viewvc/

will allow you to browse the contents of the repository.  You'll need to have a Subversion client installed in order to check out code.  Simplest way on a Mac is to do

fink install svn-client

although there are also binary .pkg installers floating around for most eveery platform if you'd prefer to go that route.  Then do

svn co http://deltag5.lns.mit.edu:8080/svn/modulename

Committing Changes

The web server doesn't do any authentication, so if you plan on committing changes to these packages you'll need to be added to the svnusers group on deltag5 and you'll also need to use ssh to get your working copy:

svn co svn+ssh://deltag5.lns.mit.edu/svnrep/modulename

In that case, make sure that your .bashrc on deltag5 adds /usr/local/bin to your $PATH.  Note that this method may ask you for your password as much as 4 times, so publickey authentication is your friend (see SSHKeychain for Macs).

For more information on Subversion (basically the successor to CVS) take a look at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

The first step is to figure out what files you want to transfer and make some file lists for SRM transfers:

At PDSF make subdirectories ~/xfer ~/hrm_g1 ~/hrm_g1/lists

Copy from ~hjort/xfer the files diskOrHpss.pl, ConfigModule.pm and Catalog.xml into your xfer directory.

These links describe how to do bulk file transfers from RCF to PDSF.

Datasets removed:

• auau200/hijing_382/b0_3/central/y2007/gheisha_on/p07ia
  pure hijing events without embedded B particle;
• auau200/hijing_382/b0_3/central/y2004a/gheisha_on/trs_ie,

Current simulation wave - the 2007 status page is actively updated, users can consult it daily:

2007 Two major items:

• Spin PWG request, quite large, 8M+ events total: