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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

• UCSD Tier2 Access Policy for Open Science Grid Users
• Frequently Asked Questions
• OSG CMS Certificate Setup

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.

• CMSSW Documentation
• Status of the cmslocal software installation
• Using Crab on the UCSD T2 UAF
• Frequently Asked Question
• Site Policy
• Using CVS at UCSD
• Accessing the UCSD T2 User Analaysis Facility
• Reminder for fkw to know how to get started with CMS for surf & turf
• Documentation for operating the glideinWMS at UCSD
• Documentation for fkw's write access at the T2s
• Documentation for fkw's scalability testing
• SSH Agent Documentation for access to the UCSD CMS T2 Center UAF
• User Physics Analysis and MC Production Tools and Environment
• Documentation on glidein submissions from uaf

OSG and CMS Activities

• OSG glidein factory Instructions
• glideinWMS project Twiki
• 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

Local Administrators

Documentation primarily of interest to UCSD Local Administrators

GlideinFactoryFAQ

GlideinFactory Logbook? (Internal)

Software

• UCSD System Event Log
• 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
• OSG Client Install Guide for UCSD
• Nagios Admin Guide at UCSD
• Some Useful Web Links
• NFS Configuration notes for UCSD
• UCSD Glue Schema
• SRM DCache Troubleshooting
• Instructions for making the SAM Quality plots
• CRAB-based IOTest on OSG
• GFTP Server Installation Notes
• Crab Server Integration with GlideinWMS
• Test bench for Crab diagnosis job
• DaveEvansSTEP09LogHandler
• DaveEvansSTEP09Results
• RemoveNodeWithIllegalCharacters

Hardware

• Linux software raid FAQ
• Remote Serial Console Guide

Site Administrators

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

• OSG CE Workshop Install Notes for Installing OSG CE
• GlueCEStateEstimatedResponseTime
• NFS Lite Modifications for LIGO compatability (Remote_InitialDir)
• Modifications for Rocks 3.3 to run CMS SW and ORCA Applications
• Condor group configurations at UCSD
• Information about the Phedex installation at UCSD
• Customized Local Squid Configuration for Frontier Using the System Squid Package
• Adjustements to MonaLisa's Heap Size for stable operations of the ML Daemon on OSG CE
• Current Gums Configuration Entries for CMS at UCSD CMS T2
• OSG Extensions Work towards benchmarking the compute element
• Guide to Creating a Custom Rocks Kernel Roll
• Squid Proxy Customizations
• Commissioning PhEDEx Links
• Installation instructions for a local scop DBS-2 instance
• Measuring the Data Transfer Latency during CSA07
• PhEDEx Data Transfer Network Endpoints

Tier2 Site

• GroupObjective
• Tier 2 Documentation
  • Administrator Documentation
    • FindingTheCertificatesDirectoryInOSG
    • ArpFlux
    • LCGUIConfigurationForCRAB
    • LCGUIInstallationNotesFromBockjooKim
    • CRAB110Pre3InstallationProcedure
    • OSGInstallDocs
    • CeArchitecture
  • User Documentation
    • CvsResources
    • ACLsAndSharedDirectoriesInTheMHLinuxCluster
    • EnvironmentForORCAJobs
    • UseOfSRMCPAtUCSDTier2
    • CERNHRRegistrationForm
    • OSGCMSCertificateSetup
    • BasicOSGScriptingEnvironment
    • CrabSubmissionToOSG
    • SimpleOSGJobSubmission

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Miscellaneous

• teaching

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