A MadEvent AnalysisProgram I've written a program that contains a "reconstructing" math algorithm that histograms kinematic and other interesting variables for MadEvent ...

The Atlas Releases are installed below /cern/atlas/dist. (If you have an opinion about where they should be, let me know.) Currently, we have 10.0.1 and 10.0.4. ...

Notes on building RPMs with an example patching and rebuilding the kernel srpm from SL30x. The SL30x update rpms are available in: ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux ...

Some of the CERN ROOT Tutorial exercises (namely 6 and 7) generate the same error: * Error : Symbol symbol is not defined in current scope By searching on google ...

Error configuring network interface On SL53, when starting the installer, before X11 GUI comes up get a pop up in the text mode that says, "there was an error configuring ...

Cobbler Redhat's Cobbler project https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ provides a fairly lightweight management layer on top of tools used for Redhat installs such as ...

Partitioning Labels in SL5, the part kickstart command takes the label option, but this isn't available in SL4. In both versions, the installer adds labels to filesystems ...

Desktop Computer Recommendations 2011 For the Linux Desktop cluster, recent purchases have been Dell Precision T3500 systems with quad core CPUs. These system have ...

Using D0CVS See http://www d0.fnal.gov/software/cmgt/reg d0cvs.html You can checkout and checkin files to the D0 CVS server from the Wrigley cluster. Anonymous Checkouts ...

The D0 software is installed below /fnal. Links similair to the setup on ClueD0 also exist (/D0 /d0dist /d0usr). To setup the UPS environment, do source /fnal/ups ...

References * Admin.GetDoeGridsCert renew See http://www d0.fnal.gov/VO/DZero_VO_Instructions.html To renew, you need to accept the usage rules again. To do this ...

To complete... Main.TomRockwell 25 Aug 2008

The FNAL email listserver has a full featured web interface that allows full control over your list subscriptions, however, some of the functionality is not so obvious ...

There are yearly editions of this tutorial, but 2007 will contain only minor changes from 2006. Download the pdf text of the tutorial from http://www.nevis.columbia ...

Grid Cert Import to Firefox or Thunderbird Various client programs can use your grid certificate for establishing your identity to servers. Usually they want to import ...

Computer Information For Conference Attendees This page is at /view/Computing/HepConfGuestComputerInfo Laptops You are encouraged to bring a laptop with you to MSU ...

MSU HEP Guest Computer Information This page is at /view/Computing/HepGuestComputerInfo Laptops You are encouraged to bring a laptop with you to MSU. Please be aware ...

Main page for the MSUHEP Linux desktop cluster. Information for visitors to the MSU HEP group: * HepGuestComputerInfo Computer information for HEP group guests ...

HEP Linux User FAQs Auto Logout TCSH shell users may experience auto logouts. This is a default "feature" of TCSH and not a cluster policy. TCSH may disable this ...

Desktops Winter 2011, working to update nodes to a consistent 32 or 64 bit Scientific Linux 5.5. The nodes are built using "Cobbler". A configuration management ...

Feb 2011 /work/raida 9TB storage area is available. Work continues on updating desktop nodes. Main.TomRockwell

MSUHEP Linux Cluster New User Information This page is at http://hep.pa.msu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Computing/HepLinuxNewUser An account on the MSU HEP group's desktop ...

Current Installs Current installs are done using Scientific Linux 5.5 using either x86_64 (64 bit) or i386 (32 bit) OS depending on the hardware. To see the version ...

Storage Description of the storage areas available to users on the HEP Linux cluster. Please feel free to contact Tom Rockwell if you have questions about storage ...

HEP Webspace We run a web server for the group at http://hep.pa.msu.edu/ Personal pages We don't enable this by default for all users, you must request that this ...

ht17 Tag: PA 1219 This is a Compaq d315 Athlon 2600 system. A Matrox g450 AGP card has been added, it has 1GB of RAM and an 80GB IDE drive. F10 setup Boot menu ...

Several machines on the cluster have CD RW drives and may be used for burning CDs. The program cdrecord is configured to allow users to burn CDs. Cdrecord is a command ...

References * List of printers on department website. Printers There are three printers in room BPS 3214a, each is configured on the Linux cluster. Additionally ...

disk image based unpack: mkdir p tmp/mnt gunzip c /boot/initrd whatever initrd whatever mount o loop initrd whatever mnt repack: umount mnt gzip 9 initrd whatever ...

This is a way to perform a local install of Fedora without needing a CD ROM. The idea is to copy the ISOs to an existing partition on the machine and also setting ...

Skype is a real pain to install on SL 5. They no longer offer a statically linked version, and the version prior to that was claimed to be statically linked, but was ...

LaTeX Letter and A4 paper Europe and the US use different paper sizes. A lot of the Latex software and other open source document processing software is packaged ...

* InitrdDump open up a Redhatish initrd Main.TomRockwell 17 Oct 2006

Clone OSX Want to transfer an OS X system from one harddrive to another, e.g. want to upgrade the harddrive. This is also useful as a backup strategy. Resources ...

MAC OSX OSX 10.4.7 August Security Update This update includes a new version of SSH (OpenSSH 4.2) which uses a new mechanism for doing Kerberos authentication. The ...

OS X has the program ktrace that lists system calls (similair to strace). ktrace some_command kdump f ktrace.out The equiv of ldd is otool L. Main.TomRockwell ...

OSX FAQs Drag n Drop install requires higher privilege When installing Firefox, you download and mount the .dmg file, you then copy Firefox.app to your applications ...

Kerberos on OSX Apple ships a version of Kerberos on newer OSX systems. It needs to be configured to know about the realms you wish to use. The OSX Kerberos client ...

Leopard I've installed the 10.5 release over 10.4 on an Intel 32bit core duo macbook with 2GB of RAM. I've updated to 10.5.2 (this was a large ~375MB download). ...

Note that the info on this page is mainly generic to any \*nix machine and BASH. What is run when BASH starts See the Invocation section of man bash for a description ...

UNIX backup tools on OSX * http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/archive/ About resource forks and all that. * http://developer.apple.com/macosx/backuponmacosx ...

Resources * http://mywiki.ncsa.uiuc.edu/wiki/Mac_OS_X Setting up a new personal OSX machine * partitioned drive for user's partition * created temp user account ...

Some software I have installed... Web * Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ * Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ Media * Flip4MAC Windows ...

OSX Apps Various apps I use... Utils * http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/ Main.TomRockwell 14 Jun 2006

Xquartz On OSX 10.5, I use the Xquartz releases of X11 instead of the X11 releases from Apple. These are easy to install and have resolved some issues I've had. ...

Madevent is a package derived from MadGraph (which is quite stable and has been around for a long time). It produces events according to SM and BSM processes at the ...

Best Practices, bugs, tips for ROOT within MSU experiments * Best Practices * GoodRootTutorial from Nevis Lab * RegularRootTutorial from CERN * Tips ...

George has link to router stats for BPS at the bottom of this page. MSU has a page network information page. This page includes a link to a map of the MSU network ...

New User Info for MSUHEP Wrigley Compute Cluster Passwords Change your password using the command kpasswd. Main.TomRockwell 26 May 2006

One Liners in Perl and other UNIX programs Perl Swap the state of an option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config $ perl pi e 's/#(StrictModes\s)yes/\1no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config ...

Usually, the command "mv" is used for renaming single files or directories. Most Linux systems will include a rename command as well that can use wildcards to rename ...

This tutorial has one edition: http://root.cern.ch/root/Tutorials.html. See CERNRootTutorialBug for an explanation of a bug which affects this tutorial. Main.DanielleLarese ...

root config Note that root now has a utility root config, which will tell you about the root installation. You can check the options used in compiling the binary ...

Installing ROOT on OSX 10.5 There is not yet (April 2008) a pre build ROOT package specific to 10.5, however the 10.4 package should work. Install the XCode tools ...

Intro Cernlib is a set of FORTRAN programs and libraries mainly developed and supported by CERN. Cernlib Cernlib releases are installed below /cern/cernlib on the ...

Setting up ROOT To use ROOT, you need to have a couple environment variables defined. I've provided scripts to set these up, depending on whether you are working on ...

Intro See also http://support.pa.msu.edu/Help/FAQs/ Also, for most users, the campus VPN will be a better option for protecting connection from off campus. See http ...

SSH Keys Discribes howto generate private/public ssh keys, upload the public on to a server and use ssh agent on your client to securely and conveniently connect to ...

Main.ChipBrock 10 Aug 2015 MSU Tier 3 Hardware Login Nodes * green.aglt2.org * maron.aglt2.org * alpheus.aglt2.org Hardware 468 Job Slots reportedon 51 ...

Tier 3 User Information Main.ChipBrock 17 Aug 2015

Preparing D0 Releases DZero releases: p16.07.00 p18.07.00 Work areas Main.TomRockwell 26 May 2006

Top Neural Net This article is about a specific neural network analysis, and is not a general neural network article. Running it on the HEP Linux cluster I've made ...

cap to senna, 21 Nov 2005 traceroute to senna.pa.msu.edu (35.9.71.89), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 cc rtr ve21.net.msu.edu (35.9.119.1) 0.201 ms 0.146 ms 0 ...

Introduction A CVS repository is available for personal and workgroup use on the MSUHEP Linux Cluster. The location is /opt/cvsroot. Local and remote access is allowed ...

User Information for the Intel Compilers Intel compilers and debuggers are installed below /opt/intel. Fortran Intel provides a script for setting up the user environment ...

Using Mathematica Mathematica is available on a few of the cluster machines: ht16, ht17, ht18, ht19 and sasha. (Check the file /opt/mathematica/5.2/Configuration ...

Queues There are two queues available to users on the system. They are named user and userhigh. The user queue is setup to get about 1/2 of the cluster resources ...

See Reinhard's page at http://www d0.fnal.gov/~schwier/msu/videoconf.html Main.TomRockwell 04 Dec 2006

This page can be found at http://hep.pa.msu.edu/video/ Contacts Please contact Brenda Wenzlick with questions about the video conferencing equipment. The schedule ...

VRVS to ES.NET Bridge This is how to establish a bridge from a VRVS room to an ES.NET ad hoc (88*) meeting. Note that this just sets up the bridge, you will also ...

Alternate Setup July 2006, we are having troubles using Polycoms with VRVS. A work around is to disable the gatekeeper in Polycom configuration (this requires administrator ...

Welcome to the home of Foswiki.Computing. This is a web based collaboration area for ... Desktop cluster. * HepLinux is the main page for the desktop cluster ...

See also the faster WebTopicList

* Web * Web Home * Changes * Index * Search * Webs

This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this Computing web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have to ...

Computing Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the Computing web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can be ...

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

See also the verbose WebIndex.

SAMBA SAMBA is an open source SMB protocol file server. Many clients such as MAC OS X and MS Windows can connect to SMB servers. SAMBA runs on ettin.pa.msu.edu to ...

This is the main page for the Wrigley Field computer cluster at MSU. * NewUsers * RunningMC * UsingBatch Main.TomRockwell 23 Sep 2005

Message of the Day The Wrigley Field Compute Cluster at Michigan State University. Current Alerts Use strong passwords. Do not use your password on cap.pa.msu ...

Yum Update YUM is a program that aids with managing RPM packages and thus managing software installs and updates on Redhat type Linux Distributions. This information ...