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 ...

ARP Flux Written by Terrence Martin Thursday, 29 June 2006 Dealing with linux ARP flux when running multiple ethernet interfaces on the same physical and logical ...

This page documents bdii loadtests done by Sanjay Padhi for OSG. Description of tools used We use the python interface to root in order to plot results in realtime ...

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 ...

Documentation for Submitting Jobs to the Local Batch Queue Setting up a CMSSW release area to work in One of the things we are often doing is running cmsRun type ...

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 ...

UCSD CMS T2 Gums Mappings for CMS Contents Introduction The following mappings represent the current configuration at UCSD for CMS. They compliant with GUMS 1.1 ...

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 ...

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CMSSW TUTORIAL The tutorial needs to be adapted to run at UCSD in setting up the CMSSW environment as follows. Also of interest is Tutorial. Setting up the environment ...

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 ...

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 ...

process ValidationProduction { source PoolSource { untracked vstring fileNames { 'file:./evtgen detsim oldSimTrackManagerNOCUT.root' } untracked int32 ...

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 ...

Required Information 1. Start Time on WN STime 2. End Time on WN Killtime 3. End Time on Condor history at CE 4. End Time on Condor history at Codor ...

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 ...

Installation Walkthrough and Notes for Condor DISCLAIMER: Any information you read on this page is a lie. Actually, it isn't but you should treat it as such. These ...

HOW TO CONFIGURE AND RUN CRAB ON uaf 1.t2.ucsd.edu The following script configures BOSS, setups of a CMSSW area, creates a crab.cfg file, creates and submits a couple ...

Crab Server Integration with Glidein WMS Architecture 1 glidein 2.t2.ucsd.edu submitter with CRABSERVER 1 glidein 1.t2.ucsd.edu gfactory 1 glidein ...

Installation of the Crabserver 1. Install and start glite proxy renewald 2. Install and start delegation services 3. globus gridftp server 4. Details of updating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dataset Request Accounting Tool UCSD's dataset request accounting tool website is located at: https://uaf 2.t2.ucsd.edu/datarequests/datareq.php Purpose The purpose ...

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 ...

Here's where I keep track of the phase 3 transfer latency information for CCRC08 for UCSD. dataset approval time completed arrival job submission last job ...

A job to run with tunable number of seconds per event STEP09TrivialAnalyzer v2 works with a tunable time per event. To run it you need to do: scramv1 project CMSSW ...

CVS repository Current tests are based on "STEP09TrivialAnalyzer" that runs on the JobRobot dataset. The script to make the configs and the script to submit them ...

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 ...

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 Administrative Questions How to generate a grid host cert After backing up the old cert files run the following. source $VDT ...

Site FTS Server ftscp status PhEDEx transfer status Work Plan T1 ASGC fts.grid.sinica ...

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

This page details what's required to successfully submit a CRAB job during CCRC08 using the glideinWMS system from glidein 2. For the impatient cd ~fkw/CCRC08 source ...

Installing the executable in first place wget http://yuan.ucsd.edu/CMS/WBFanalysis v1.tar.gz source /code/osgcode/cmssoft/cmsset default.sh cmssw 1 6 11 source /code ...

This page describes the glideinWMS system as deployed for CCRC08. Hardware glidein 2 submitter, place where CRAB runs glidein 1 gfactory glidein ...

Stage out issues at sites IFCA and storm IFCA is using storm. I'm told that the fnal srm client is not compatible with storm, and storm supports only srmv2. ...

Dirty Crab Tricks I call this page this way because it's a random selection of fixes that I needed to do at various times in order to get something done. The structure ...

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 ...

This page was created to keep track of development efforts needed to follow up on lessons learned from CCRC08 Analysis exercise. The development effort described here ...

These instructions are from an email by Haifeng (hpi) on September 4th 2009. pre 1. first use any interactive machine to install a glite UI. Just use totarball ...

using the ssd: standard WW on ssd: Real time: 85412 events / 18.030754 s 4.737018e 03 event/s CPU time: 85412 events / 8.540000 s 1.000141e 04 event/s standard ...

Here we make an attempt of specifying some goals for the UCSD CRAB server on glideinWMS installation, and a crude timeline for accomplishing them. We start with the ...

This page lists problems with CRAB server. Problems as of 6/17/09 Incompletely submitted tasks Whenever a task has many jobs, you are virtually guaranteed that the ...

Hardware Deployment glidein collector Collector/Negotiator submit 1 Schedd/CRAB server (development version) glidein 2 Schedd/Crab server (production version) glidein ...

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 ...

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 ...

Changes need to port OSG modifications to GRAM5 jobmanager condor Overview OSG uses a patched/augmented version jobmanager condor (condor.in condor.pm). The jobmanager ...

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 Project TWiki Home Page This page should be used by the glideinWMS development team for the project related information.The official page for users is located ...

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 ...

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

This page is to keep track of Haifeng's accomplishments in computing on a weekly basis. May 2007 May 18th 2007 Reached sustained glide in operations of ~700 ...

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 ...

#!/bin/sh runcfg /home/users/letts/IOTest/runSimHitAnalyzer.cfg project CMSSW version 1 3 1 export CMS SOFTWARE /code/osgcode/cmssoft crab version CRAB 1 5 2 CRAB ...

Setup for 6to4 Tunnel configuration Table of Contents IPv4 Dot Decimal to Hex Converter Go here for a tool for converting IPv4 addresses into Hex code. Linux Setup ...

Installation Instructions for dummys Installation on client and server ssh root@uaf 2 wget http://hepuser.ucsd.edu/twiki2/pub/UCSDTier2/OsgmonitoringrpmPackageDescription ...

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 ...

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 MonaLisa is a java based multi threaded grid aware monitoring system. For more information visit http://monalisa.cacr.caltech.edu/monalisa.htm. TerrenceMartin ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 Tuesday, 31 January 2006 Instructions for registering your OSG certificate for CMS and getting set ...

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 User Tutorial Contents Tutorial http://hepuser.ucsd.edu/twiki/bin/view/UCSDTier2/OSGUserTutorial Presenter Terrence Martin System Manager UCSD Particle ...

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 ...

osgmonitoring.rpm Package Description osgmonitoring 2.10.0 1.noarch.rpm: The rpm containing the files for the OSG monitoring package Note: At installation time, the ...

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 ...

We have two listservs for support, one for announcements from the Tier 2 admins to the users, and one for complaints and questions from the users to the admins. Every ...

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 ...

Modifications to Rocks 3.3 x86 64 to support CMS software Contents Introduction The following document details some of the modifications required for Rocks 3.3 x86 ...

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 ...

Running the tests for dummys Initial comments: the clients are monitored only if the osgmonitoring rpm is instaled on that node the tests work even if the ...

UCSD CMS T2 SSH PubKey Information Contents Introduction This document outlines the procedure for generating an OpenSSH Public Keypair for use in accessing the UCSD ...

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 ...

The workshop dinner will be held Wednesday evening at: Alborz 2672 Del Mar Heights Road, Del Mar, CA, 92014 Map There are enough people with cars attending that we ...

Summer 2008 bdii scalability testing (work for OSG) lcg util deployment validation (work for OSG) The LCG UTIL package comes with the following list of commands ...

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 ...

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

Task List FEATURES Aggregrate gatekeeper/sites displayed in the monitoring plots. Introduce the concepts of Groups Each entry is a part of its ...

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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 Hadoop User and Account Mappings This twiki is for decribing the UCSD CMS T2 Hadoop and GUMS account mappings to support the CMS experiments storage account requirements ...

Phedex Software Installation Instructions Information about the configuration Information about T1 IPs Some Monitoring Links JamesLetts 02 Nov 2006 ...

Agent configuration Environment setup JamesLetts 02 Nov 2006

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PHEDEX HOME /home/phedex/csa06; PHEDEX BASE $PHEDEX HOME/PHEDEX; PHEDEX SCRIPTS $PHEDEX BASE PHEDEX CONF $PHEDEX HOME/SITECONF/UCSD/PhEDEx; PHEDEX STORAGEMAP $PHEDEX ...

Installation instructions for Phedex 2.4 cd /home/phedex/csa06 mkdir p state logs sw gridcert chmod 700 gridcert rm fr sw mkdir sw sw $PWD/sw wget O $sw/aptinstaller ...

PhEDEx Monitoring Introduction The role of the PhEDEx data transfer system is to catalog, replicate and register CMS data sets. Therefore, PhEDEx is the end user ...

T1 centers and their srm servers IP addresses. Also gftp or pool nodes follow. T1 ASGC castorsc.grid.sinica.edu.tw 140.109.98.139 sc004.grid.sinica.edu.tw ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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