BABAR Computing System Home
Page
(last updated 21 September 2009)
The BABAR Computing
System includes the following elements:
- offline (CPU,
network, storage);
- software
environment in which the computing work is done (including
code development/management, user concerns, distributed computing
issues, etc.); and the
- collaboration code itself
(on-line, reconstruction, simulation, etc.).
This page
is an entry point for more information about this system.
To
go to the OLD Computing Home Page click here.
Fast links:
- BaBar Wiki (Home,
Computing,
Long Term Data Access (LTDA))
- R24
reprocessing main monitoring page
- Releases (Release
Summary, Lettered
builds, summary
of release notes)
- Online
- Offline (Reco,
Simulation,
QA,
Data
Quality, Software
Admin, WebSRT)
- Operations
(Production, PromptReco, CondDB)
- Distributed
(Tier A
data, Bookkeeping,
PromptReco,
Databases)
- Tools
(SRT, GUIs)
- Web
(Information, Authorship
guidelines, Tools,
Web
Usage Statistics)
- Misc (HyperNews,
Training,
New
Users, absence)
- Monitoring
(Ganglia,
Old
System Monitoring)
- Documentation
(Offline User's
Workbook, Intro to CM2)
- Task
Manager Version 2

News items:
5 Jun 2008 - The CX Agendas
with notes on the status of production activities
Older items
Getting Help
Pointers to the Major Systems:
Plans, Designs, Organization, and Communication
Absence
page, if people should know you are absent please add an entry
Policies,
recommendations and other Administrative Items
Documentation,
Communication, and Information task force HyperNews forum. Make
useful suggestions on how to better organize the BaBar documentation
and facilitate better
communication of information.
Computing Reviews Page
Computing Organization
reasonably current organization
chart
Computing Steering Committee page
Communications
CX
Minutes
BaBar
Discussion Forum index - A list of archived discussions,
announcements, minutes, etc.
BFMAIL
email lists (BFMAILInstructions)
Browse computing info stored
in $BFROOT/www/Computing
Scan directories containing meeting
notes, slides, etc.
User and Programmer Information
O'Reilly
CD Bookshelf online docs available for Perl, Unix, Java, and Web
Design
Linux at
SLAC
Unix
(or NT) account information (getting and configuring) for BABAR
Collaborators
Laptop
connection to SLAC Network - so your laptop can plug into a SLAC
ethernet port (using DHCP or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). Note
that this link is available from the SLAC network
Programming
Page with useful information for programmers
BABAR Software Release information
SRT
User's Guide version 1.1
SRT -
Software Release Tools
General
Information, including release log of the common offline software
with versions and histories; package descriptions (and coordinators);
and, other pointers
Archive of the hints
& tips BFMAIL list ("SOFTWRHELP")
Browse the actual code
directories for README files
Remedy
- Submit a problem report on BABAR code (or check bug status)
Quality
Control Home Page
Quality
Assurance Home Page
C++ Standard [ps
|pdf
|html ].
Training
page with course/tutorial slides and related information.
Description of the $BFROOT directory ($BFROOT/README)
Software
standards, policies, recommendations and other Administrative Items
Wide-Area Network Monitoring
& Statistics Page
SLAC
anonymous ftp (ftp.slac.stanford.edu, directory pub/bfactory)
Hints for finding and writing BABAR Notes
Hints for dealing with troublesome PostScript
General Information about Computing
Usenet
FAQ [Frequently Asked Questions] related to computing ( Unix,
languages, graphics,
databases, emacs,
OOP, etc.
INDEX
to Journals and Newsletters (by HEPNRC,
the HEP Network Resource Center at FermiLab)
Gopher
Info
CERN Unix Workstation Support
Vendor
Pages
CUI's W3 searchable
catalog
Belle Detector Home Page and
their Computing page
This page is maintained by Homer
Neal
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