ACLs and Shared Directories in the MH Linux Cluster Written by Terrence Martin Thursday, 29 June 2006 Creating shared directories in the MH Linux cluster using ...

ARC (Nordugrid) Tests Instructions The ARC installation instructions can be found at http://www.nordugrid.org/documents/ng server install.html .The Gridmanager documentaion ...

Analysis Tutorial Overview The main goal of this twiki is to document a series of training sessions to teach the basics of doing a particle physics analysis from ...

Basic OSG Scripting Environment Written by Terrence Martin Tuesday, 31 January 2006 Setting up a basic OSG script environment (update for 0.4.0 CEs ...

Install and Configure BOSCO for Glidein Based Submission About this Document This document describes how to install and configure BOSCO to allow a glideinWMS factory ...

Documentation of CE Overloads Table of Contents September 17th 2007 Overload of the UCSD CE osg gw 2.t2.ucsd.edu began approximately at 09:30 in the morning Sept ...

CERN HR Registration Form Written by Terrence Martin Wednesday, 01 February 2006 for registration to the CERN HR Database. The form is to be sent to ...

IO Profiling Follows a summary of the CMS IO Profilling activity (collected and summarized by by Haifeng Pi). CMS IO Profiling The IO performance of CMS SE and the ...

Benchmark Tests Using the CMS PhEDEx LoadTest Infrastructure Introduction The LHC Open Network Environment The objective of LHCONE is to provide a collection of ...

CMSLocalStatus Old versions of ORCA 8 clobber source code on compilation. This will never be fixed, but there is a local installation of ORCA 8 7 5 in /code/osgcode ...

RamiVanguri 26 Jun 2006

CMSSW TUTORIAL The purpose of this page is to help new users get started using CMSSW at UCSD. For more information on how to use CMSSW itself, see the workbook. Setting ...

CRAB 1.1.0 pre3 Installation Procedure Written by James Letts Wednesday, 26 April 2006 Makefile to install and configuer the CRAB code on the code node ...

CREAM Tests Introduction OSG is evaluating various Grid Compute Elements (aka Gatekeepers) to determine which ones it should support. Feature list, ease of use, performance ...

Cabinet 10 10 X ownership This page contains the table of "owners" of the cabinet 10 10 X test cluster: Node Owner Last verified cabinet 10 10 0 Terrence ...

CE Architecture Written by Administrator Monday, 30 January 2006 Note: Need to transfer image to hepuser.ucsd.edu to be hosted locally Main.BruceThayre ...

Guide for Installing the Required Components for VDT Certificate Infrastructure Only Contents Script to Grab the Required Packages #!/bin/sh mkdir p /data/vdt mkdir ...

As part of the OSG extensions work, we want to gain a quantitative understanding of the scalability and reliability of the OSG Compute Element. This includes understanding ...

Condor Fuzzy Testing Overview Condor is a major component of the OSG software stack. As part of the OSG reliability activity, we want to usnderstand how well Condor ...

Install and Configure condor annex About this Document condor annex is a Perl based script that utilizes the Amazon Web Services (AWS) command line interface (CLI ...

HOW TO CONFIGURE AND RUN CRAB ON uaf {7,8,9}.t2.ucsd.edu The following shows how to submit crab jobs from a CMSSW environment. In order to set up a CMSSW environment ...

Crab Submission to OSG Written by James Letts Tuesday, 31 January 2006 Details of submitting ORCA jobs to OSG sites via CRAB 1.1.0 Before you use CRAB ...

Crab Grid Test Goal Investigate performance of glidein submission versus direct (condor) submission Implementation Run ntuplemaker on dataset We chose the ntuplemaker ...

CrossOSG CE Web page Note: This page is deprecated! This page contains information pertaining the CrossOSG CE installation. Description The CrossOSG CE is a glideinWMS ...

Introduction This is a guide for rebuilding the Rocks 3.x kernel for use in a custom distribution of Rocks. Rebuilding the Rocks Kernel checkout the rocks source ...

CVS Resources Written by Terrence Martin Tuesday, 22 August 2006 CVS Pointers and documentation This stub is to collect some inital CVS repository links ...

A set of CMS tools are deployed locally to provide the critical infrastructure to support the grid based analysis. 1. DBS 2 A local machine (ming.ucsd.edu) is dedicatd ...

dCache Scalability Tests This page contains the results of tests ran against dCache as part of the OSG scalability and reliability area activity. FNAL test instance ...

Quick and easy SRM DCache Troubleshooting Table of Contents Restarting SRM server and all GridFTP doors Note that this is the most commonly needed procedure. If ...

Procedures for Identifying, Avoiding and Recovering from Data Loss at the UCSD CMS T2 Center Contents Introduction This living document outlines policies and procedures ...

Network Endpoints for CMS Data Transfers T1 endpoints A current mapping for FTS endpoints at T1 sites can be found here. This is the mapping of SRM endpoint to IP ...

Measuring Data Transfer Latency We are measuring data transfer latencies by requesting one dataset per day via the Prod instance of PhEDEx, and tracking until the ...

Getting CRAB logs the brute force way Without using condor history it is possible to find the crab logs in a given period by looking at the date stamps of the individual ...

STEP09 Results Definition of STEP09 time period used # week one #START STEP09 `date u d "Jun 8 00:00:00 UTC 2009" %s` #END STEP09 `date u d "Jun 14 23:59:59 UTC ...

Debugging Overflow Read Access errors from a crabserver perspective Logical Procedure login as root into the relevant crabserver figure out via condor history ...

Environment for ORCA jobs Written by James Letts Wednesday, 29 March 2006 Environment set up in bash for ORCA jobs. THIS HAS BEEN DEPRECATED BY ENV SETUP ...

Errors and Their Causes Contents Introduction This page for noting various systems errors and their causes on the Tier2 Center. Authentication PRIMA Error: Skipping ...

UCSD Tier 2 Event Log Oct 27 2006 MIS Get CPUS script caused overload of the CE. The cron job was disabled and nominal loads were restored on the CE. During ...

Frequently Asked Questions Contents Users Condor C Submission http://www.t2.ucsd.edu/twiki2/bin/view/UCSDTier2/FkwUafCondorC Specifying how many CPU you want ...

Finding the certificates directory in OSG Written by Terrence Martin Thursday, 29 June 2006 What to do when a VO user cannot find the ...

fkw's Getting Started with CMSSW page Note that there are some README files in fkw's home directory in addition t the stuff here. setting up the environment source ...

Nodes pnfs 2.t2.ucsd.edu used for gfactory gftp 6b.t2.ucsd.edu used for job submission cd ~fkw/CMS/CMSSW 1 5 4 source source me cd ../submitDir Email about ...

The purpose of this page is to document the scalability testing we are doing right after CSA07. It's not pretty! It's mostly written for myself so that I don't get ...

Instructions for submitting to CMS AnaOps from the UAF The CMS AnaOps cluster is exposing a HTCondor C interface that can be used to submit jobs directly from the ...

In my mail inbox search for "write access at t2's" in subject line. srm://srm.unl.edu:8443/pnfs/unl.edu/data4/cms/store/users/w/fkw srm://cmssrm.hep.wisc.edu:8443 ...

Installation Steps for GFTP servers Table of Contents OS Install the OS Patch VDT Install VDT version will change over time. Check http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/ for updates ...

GRAM5 tests This page is meant to contain the information we gather while testing GRAM5. GRAM5 validation tests Jeff and Igor did a first round of tests to check ...

Grid FTP Benchmarking tests Mission statement This page is meant to gather information about GridFTP scalability tests. OSG CE GridFTP This test is meant to benchmark ...

VDT Packages use for Gftp Server VDT Install Contents Introduction This docment outlines the commands to install a VDT suitable for use on a Dcache gftp server. ...

glideinWMS Factory Training Glidein Factory Operations training material The Grid High Level Overview glideinWMS The larger picture The Grid Lingo ...

condor q l jobId then look for JobUniverse 5 frontend uaf2 ssh frontend@uaf2 cd .globus less refresh proxy.sh then check for these in GUMS list and you find: ...

glideinWMS Project Developer's Home Page This page is obsoletedProject management has moved to the FNAL's redmine. This page should be used by the glideinWMS development ...

List of Issues(Logbook) 2009/03/31 1. 2009 03 31 07:42:51,385:FatWorker worker 0 preparing submission2009 03 31 07:42:51,386:FatWorker worker 0 performing list match ...

Installation Walkthrough and Notes on the GlideinWMS System DISCLAIMER: These are my personal notes, so don't trust them. It's always best to rely on your own notes ...

Changing GlueCEStateEstimatedResponseTime This wiki describes how to change the default GlueCEStateEstimatedResponseTime to allow Crab jobs to match the site. This ...

Welcome to the UCSD Tier2 Portal Written by Terrence Martin Monday, 30 January 2006 This web portal is your gateway to information regarding the UCSD Tier2 ...

Installing GWMS Frontend using RPMs Contents Installation This guide assumes os rhel6. Install epel and osg repos as outlined: https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view ...

Hadoop FS tests Mission statement This page is supposed to collect various scalability documents related to Hadoop FS. External Documents Hadoop use in CMS ...

HdfsXrootd Development Twiki Contents Build Instructions The sections below will use $PROJDIR as shorthand to denote a common area for the project source code ...

HDFS Xrootd Fallback Administration Finding Files with a Given Replication The examples here use the hadoop lsr tool, which can be found on uaf at: ~jdost/bin/hadoop ...

Full Model Studies at 14TeV in preparation for phase 2 Upgrade If we were to see an excess in the jets MET btags ( leptons) final state during Run2 of CMS, then ...

svn co N svn ssh://svn.cern.ch/reps/tdr2 myDir # where myDir is aplaceholder for a name of your choice cd myDir svn update utils svn update N notes svn update ...

IOTest In order to run the IOTest, you need: CMSSW installation, e.g. /code/osgcode/cmssoft/cms CRAB tarball, e.g. /code/osgcode/cmslocal/crab/CRAB 1 5 2 ...

CRAB is in /code/osgcode/cmslocal/crab JamesLetts 15 Jun 2007

LCG UI Configuration for CRAB Written by James Letts Wednesday, 26 April 2006 In order to get CRAB 1.1 and higher to work with the RB, you need to do ...

LCG UI Installation Notes from Bockjoo Kim Written by James Letts Wednesday, 26 April 2006 These are Bockjoo's notes to install the UI at an OSG site ...

Les Houches Project on a Natural SUSY Scan How to do this On uaf in /home/users/fkw/generators/susy/ there are two subdirectories: softsusy 3.3.8 susyhit 1.3 and ...

UCSD T2 Linux Software RAID FAQ Contents Introduction This FAQ covers answers some UCSD T2 specific topics related to the use of Linux software RAID What is a quick ...

MonaLisa Heap Size Memory Requirements and Adjustment Contents Introduction It has been found in operating MonaLisa on your CE that often the default heap size configuration ...

My Test TerrenceMartin 2009/09/22

NFS Configuration Notes for UCSD CMS Tier 2 center Table of Contents Client Code Mount The following is the current optimized configuration for mounting the code ...

Modifications to the NFS Lite installation to Support LIGO VO Contents Introduction The following document is meant to provide a reference set of modifications to ...

NFS Lite User Manual Table of Contents Introduction NFS Lite is a modification to the condor job manager in the OSG Compute Element installation to reduce the NFS ...

NFS Lite Table of Contents Introduction What is NFS Lite What Issues does it Address How does it work TerrenceMartin 20 Oct 2006

UCSD T2 Nagios Administration and Configuration Contents Introduction This document covers varios aspects of the UCSD CMS T2 Nagios installation and configuration ...

Nagios Passive Check Guide Contents Introduction This document describes and provides examples for creating a passive check for Nagios at UCSD. A passive check is ...

Test of Network Capacity for Downloading Data Using the Load Test infrastructure data transfer system of the CMS experiment at http://www.cern.ch CERN in Geneva ...

New Monitoring Requirements for CMS T2 These monitoring components are run out of RSV probes Availability The unfortunate fact of the matter is that the WLCG ...

Node Status at the UCSD T2 Center Contents Introduction This page is to provide a status report on any nodes at the T2 center that are currently offline for hardware ...

OSG CE And Submitter Testing And Monitoring Mission statement This page is meant to gather information about the OSG CE scalability activity. Tools Two software ...

March 2007 OSG Workshop Installation Notes Introduction This document outlines the steps to installing an OSG CE. It is a supplement to the official OSG CE installation ...

OSG CMS Certificate Setup Written by Terrence Martin Instructions for registering your OSG certificate for CMS and getting set up to submit your first ...

Guide for installing the OSG Client Installation at UCSD Contents Introduction This document outlines site specific details for installing an OSG Client at UCSD ...

How to Generate an OSG Certificate with the VDT and get it Signed Contents Introduction Document describing how to generate and authorize a Grid certificate for ...

OSG Install Docs Written by Terrence Martin Tuesday, 07 March 2006 Link to the current OSG Production installation documentation http://kb.grid.iu.edu ...

OSG Scalability, Reliability and Usability The Science Grid is relying on several network facing services to deliver resources to its users. In order to avoid unexpected ...

OSG Glidein Factory Instructions The UCSD team is operating a glidein factory for http://www.opensciencegrid.org/ OSG.This page provides documentation for VOs wanting ...

OSG Bdii Testing Introduction A series of tests are done in order to better understand how OSG's central US server will respond to a high volume of bdii queries ...

Site Commissioning vs. Link Commissioning It seems there is a lot of discussion about link commissioning that properly belongs to site commissioning. It doesn't make ...

This guide concerns configuring a Lantronix Securelinx SLC serial console for use in our cluster at the Tier2 Connection Scheme The console switch itself interfaces ...

That is now how you restart the mount point on uaf. The restart is to unmount and then remount hadoop. The command used is in /etc/rc.local. What you are trying to ...

How to remove a node which contains illegal characters in one of it's database fields When node information containing illegal characters is comitted to the database ...

Commands ran on the new nodes March 2007 Commands for packages rpm ivh /home/install/contrib/4.2.1/x86 64/RPMS/perl rpm ivh /home/install/contrib/4.2.1/x86 64 ...

SAM Quality Plots Brian Boeckelman provided a set of python scripts and a graphing package. We describe here first how to use this to make the SAM Quality plots. ...

CMS Software and Computing Week 2009 at UCSD Accomodations For accomodations, we suggest two options: The La Jolla offers a rate of $159. Participants in the ...

OSG Scalability Testbed Scope The OSGScalabilit, Reliability and Usability activity needs a test infrastructure to carri out its mission. This page is meant to host ...

Service Node Inventory As the UCSD T2 center has grown the number of service nodes has increased substantially. This document will attempt to track the service inventories ...

Simple OSG Job Submission Written by Terrence Martin Monday, 30 January 2006 This document is the next step after getting your DOE grid certificate and ...

UCSD Tier2 Access Policy for Open Science Grid Users. Contents General UCSD Tier2 Center supports a full user pool based GUMS/VOMS infrastructure. If your VO has ...

Squid Proxy Customizations at UCSD T2 Contents Introduction UCSD runs a squid proxy for the use of any OSG users that would like to take advantage of the benefits ...

Storage Consistency Check Dumps storage dump ucsd January2014.txt.gz: Storage Dump from January 2014 storage dump ucsd February2014.txt.gz: Storage Dump ...

Scalability Test on BeStMan and BeStMan2 Since spring 2010 the study of SRM (BeStMan and BeStMan2) has been one of the major work for the test of performance of storage ...

UCSD T2 Site Policy Written by Terrence Martin Monday, 30 January 2006 UCSD Tier2 Access Policy for Open Science Grid Users. General UCSD Tier2 ...

Links To Courses Physics 214 Spring 2015 Physics 1B Winter 2012 Physics 2C Spring 2012 Physics 2BL Fall 2012 Physics 2C Spring 2013 Particle ...

Y #223; #916; Alpha; Gamma; TerrenceMartin 23 Jan 2007

Configuration of a new UAF Node Table of Contents Create an Logical Volume from all spare disk space First partition the disks accordinging and reboot so the machine ...

CVS at UCSD Particle Physics CMS This document is meant to provide a gather place for documentation related to the use of CVS in the UCSD Particle Physics department ...

UCSD Condor Group Configuration Contents Introduction This document is meant to describe the condor configuration at UCSD CMS T2 as it pertains to condor groups ...

UCSD Frontier Squid Configuration Contents Introduction In order to support the CMS and other VO requirements for a Frontier (squid web cache) installation at our ...

UCSD Glue Schema Table of Contents Introduction This page is for the name/value pairs for the UCSD OSG Glue Schema. This is the reference for configuring our OSG ...

UCSD Particle Physics User Analysis Facility Access (UAF) In addition to the UCSD CMS Tier 2 center UCSD Particle Physics operates an interactive analysis facility ...

The objective of this page is to document where things go when you submit a job on the UAF. And how to check and/or change the priorities of people. Architecture ...

UCSDGrid Submit Infrastructure We are hosting a glideinWMS based submit infrastructure as part of the UCSD Campus grid initiative (usually referred to as "UCSDGrid ...

Use of SRMCP at UCSD Tier2 A brief note of how to use srmcp at the UCSD tier2 center from a job script. I assume in this document that there already is a file in ...

Some Useful Links OpenSSL Commands TerrenceMartin 03 Jan 2007

WS Gram Testing Table of Contents Introduction The following is results from UCSD WS Gram testing with Pre WS Gram for comparison. Notable Findings The following ...

nop UCSDTier2 Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the UCSDTier2 web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ...

Statistics for nop UCSDTier2 Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save ...

Big Picture Understand the performance characteristics of jobs running on the global grid infrastructure by correlating information from HTCondor with information ...

Projects for Alex Ground rules: Any of us can put down work here. Each project needs a brief description, and it needs to require minimal knowledge of software computing ...

Higgsino Production The example SUSY model We used softsusy 3.3.8 to generate a spectrum. We then used susyhit 1.3 to generate the decay table from the ...

Overview: When a head node is fully configured, reinstalling a worker node is a simple process with a few gotchas depending on the type of node being reinstalled. ...

WilliamFedus 2014/02/04 Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor Overview This twiki provides an end to end description of running some basic examples on the Intel Xeon Phi processor ...

This page was thrown together quickly to provide some info about what we are doing these days. As an aside, the page with info on the UCSD written exam is here. At ...

This page was thrown together quickly to provide some info about the UCSD collider physics group for prospective graduate students in 2008. It contains links to public ...