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Job Openings

• Asst./Assoc./Full - Research/Project Scientist
  • Appointment at a level anywhere from post-doc to non-tenured Research Faculty, depending on qualifications.
• physics post-doc position(s) on CMS
  • CMS service work in either software or computing
  • Details on fkw's group at UCSD

Available Information

• Frequently Asked Questions

Funding

The Computing in the Experimental Particle Physics group at UCSD is jointly funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

User Documentation

Documentation of primary interest to UCSD T2 users.

• Frequently Asked Question
• Accessing the UCSD T2 User Analaysis Facility
• LHC Users Documentation
• SSH Agent Documentation for access to the UCSD CMS T2 Center UAF
• User Physics Analysis and MC Production Tools and Environment
• How to remount hadoop on uaf

OSG and CMS Activities

• OSG glidein factory Instructions
• glideinWMS project Twiki
• UCSDGrid Submit infrastructure
• HdfsXrootd Development Twiki

Local Administrators

Documentation primarily of interest to UCSD Local Administrators

• GlideinFactoryFAQ
• Cabinet-10-10-X ownership
• WorkerNodeReinstall
• HDFS Xrootd Fallback Administration
• Install and Configure BOSCO for Glidein-Based Submission
• Installing GWMS Frontend using RPMs
• Install and Configure condor_annex for Amazon Web Services

Software

• Installing Crab on the UAF
• UCSD CMS T2 Nagios Admin Guide
• Nagios Passive Check Guide
• Status for Nodes that may be offline for hardware related reasons
• Nagios Admin Guide at UCSD
• NFS Configuration notes for UCSD
• UCSD Glue Schema

Hardware

• Linux software raid FAQ
• Remote Serial Console Guide

Site Administrators

Documentation of potential interest to local and remote CMS site administrators.

• Condor group configurations at UCSD
• Information about the Phedex installation at UCSD
• Customized Local Squid Configuration for Frontier Using the System Squid Package
• Current Gums Configuration Entries for CMS at UCSD CMS T2
• Squid Proxy Customizations
• Storage Consistency Check Dumps

Tier2 Site

• GroupObjective
• Tier 2 Documentation
  • Administrator Documentation
    • FindingTheCertificatesDirectoryInOSG
    • ArpFlux
    • OSGInstallDocs
    • UafSubmissionInfrastructure (fkw's notes for where jobs go, and how to figure things out)
  • User Documentation
    • ACLsAndSharedDirectoriesInTheMHLinuxCluster
    • UseOfSRMCPAtUCSDTier2
    • CERNHRRegistrationForm
    • HowToEditANsInCMS

Picture of the UCSD T2 Center:

Miscellaneous

• teaching
• Projects for Alex
• Projects for Aidan
• Projects for Jonathan
• FullModel
• Natural SUSY Les Houches project 2013
• Intel Xeon Processor

Links to outdated information

• UCSD Tier2 Access Policy for Open Science Grid Users
• OSG CMS Certificate Setup
• CMSSW Documentation
• Status of the cmslocal software installation
• Using Crab on the UCSD T2 UAF
• Site Policy
• Using CVS at UCSD
• Reminder for fkw to know how to get started with CMS for surf & turf
• Documentation for operating the glideinWMS at UCSD
• Instructions for submitting to CMS AnaOps from the UAF
• Documentation for fkw's write access at the T2s
• Documentation for fkw's scalability testing
• Documentation on glidein submissions from uaf
• NFSLiteManual
• OSG-CMS lcg-utils
• OSG Bdii Testing
• CMS Unified Monitoring approach
• CREAM CE tests for CMS
• OSG Scalability, Reliability and Usability
• UCSD Tier-2 Job monitoring
  • Overview of UCSD Tier2
  • Detailed JobMon for UCSD T2
• CRABSERVER @ UCSD
  • Monitoring of CMS Crabservers
  • JobMon for CRABSERVER @ UCSD
  • Known Issues
• Student Projects
  • Nathan's project
• Data Request Accounting System
• CMS software and computing week, April 20-24th, 2009 at UCSD
• CMS PhEDEx Load Testing in 2011
• Debugging Overflow Read-Access errors from a crabserver perspective
• CrossOSG CE Web page
• UCSD System Event Log
• Crab Server Integration with GlideinWMS
• Test bench for Crab diagnosis job
• DaveEvansSTEP09LogHandler
• DaveEvansSTEP09Results
• SRM DCache Troubleshooting
• Instructions for making the SAM Quality plots
• OSG Client Install Guide for UCSD
• CRAB-based IOTest on OSG
• OSG Extensions Work towards benchmarking the compute element
• Installation instructions for a local scop DBS-2 instance
• Measuring the Data Transfer Latency during CSA07
• Adjustements to MonaLisa's Heap Size for stable operations of the ML Daemon on OSG CE
• NFS Lite Modifications for LIGO compatability (Remote_InitialDir)
• Modifications for Rocks 3.3 to run CMS SW and ORCA Applications
• Some Useful Web Links
• GFTP Server Installation Notes
• RemoveNodeWithIllegalCharacters
• GlueCEStateEstimatedResponseTime
• OSG CE Workshop Install Notes for Installing OSG CE
• Guide to Creating a Custom Rocks Kernel Roll
• Commissioning PhEDEx Links
• PhEDEx Data Transfer Network Endpoints
  • • LCGUIConfigurationForCRAB
    • LCGUIInstallationNotesFromBockjooKim
    • CRAB110Pre3InstallationProcedure
    • EnvironmentForORCAJobs
    • CvsResources
    • OSGCMSCertificateSetup
    • BasicOSGScriptingEnvironment
    • CrabSubmissionToOSG
    • SimpleOSGJobSubmission

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