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Using the CDF central UNIX facility - cdfsga
The cdfsga central UNIX facility is used for data analysis of CDF data.
It currently consists of
28 processors rated at 191 VUPS each for a total
of approximately 5300 VUPS,
3.5 Gbytes of main memory,
2521 Gbytes of disk,
16 Exabyte 8mm cassette tape drives,
and a direct connection to the CDF STK Silo.
If you would like to request an account on cdfsga then please fill out the
UNIX account request
form.
If your password on cdfsga has expired, please call extension 2345.
- Logging in
- Editors
- Command Line Editor
- TeX
- TeX in color
(for making transparencies)
- Spelling Checker
- xfig (for making transparencies)
- lyx (for making transparencies)
- Image Manipulation
-
Converting VMS mail to UNIX format
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UNIX commands for VMS users
-
Default .login and .cshrc configuration files
- Default shell
- Copying files from FNALD to cdfsga
- Copying files from cdfsga
- Plan file
- The $HOME environmental variable
- Examples of Linking and Running CDF jobs
- Analysis Control
- Build Job
- Compiling and linking simple Fortran programs
- Batch System
- Calculation of Luminosity
- Production Manager Databases
- DF event display
- PAW
- PIAF
- PAW futures
- Topdrawer
- Topdrawer Documentation
- tcsh documentation
- Irix 6 compiler options
- Mail
-
Using exmh
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Documentation for the exmh mail handler
-
MH and xmh: Email for Users & Programmers
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Help with the MH mail handler
-
Suggestions on mail forwarding
- Calendar
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Help with the ical calendar
- Calculator
- CDF Bulletin Board
- UNIX newsgroups
- World Wide Web
- CDF Notes
- PostScript Viewer
- PDF Viewer
- Printing from cdfsga
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Printing from UNIX
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List of print queues
-
Check status of a print queue
-
What to do if your printout says MULTINET_LPD
- Printing from the display screen
- Disks
- Data Tapes
- OCS manual
- Backing up your files
- Request a tape
- Re-Initializing a tape
- STK Robotic Storage
- Debugger
- Online Fortran Manual
- Online SGI Manuals
- Programming Tips
- BAD IDEAS
- Tk/Tcl for developing GUI applications
- The Plot Widgets
- What are the Plot Widgets?
- The GNU c++ compiler
- Freeware
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Comparison of central computing usage
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Monthly HSM usage
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Success of Backups
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Utilization Report for last month
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Monthly CPU usage
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Monthly IO usage
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Monthly Tape Mounts
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Reboot History
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Products on cdfsga supported by the Fermilab Computing Division
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Survival times of 8mm drives on cdfsga
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Drawing of the hardware
Problems with cdfsga ? Please contact
cdfsga-team@fnal.gov
If you are reporting a problem
with your analysis job, please include:
- A script which creates the executable.
- A script which runs the executable, and produces the error.
- A log file, showing the error in context.
Thank you.
This file is /cdf/run1/documents/development/cdfsga.html
Last updated and validated February 15th, 2002
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