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BABAR Software Tools and Utilities

This page contains information about various software tools and utilities used by the BABAR collaboration, and some information about the computing environment.

24 May 2007

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What's New?

12/10/2004 bbrCreateBuildArea

5/22/2002 OpenOffice 1.0 support at SLAC

7/19/99 cvsweb: web-based CVS repository browser

Monitor Data

  • Critical Server Network Activity

    • Users and Environment

  • Getting Started
  • UNIX User information (including requesting SLAC Unix accounts, AFS accounts, web access, BABAR database, disk space and passwords)
  • HEPiX scripts: Customize your SLAC Unix account at login for the BABAR environment
  • HEPiX patch: Site contact need to apply the following patch to HEPiX.
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  • Staying Afloat
  • AFS Disk Space Request form for additional AFS disk space
  • $home disk space, scratch disk space, account passwords information.
  • Report a problem with Remedy (Babar's New Problem Tracking System)
  • BABAR Computing Environment at SLAC problem report form
  • Remedy User's Guide
  • Color capacity of Emacs
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  • BABAR directories and code
  • Software Package Request form Create a new package in the BABAR code release.
  • How to add files to a newly created package in CVS.
  • $BFROOT/doc BABAR documentation directory
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  • Discussion Fora and Archives:
  • BABAR Computing Environment discussion forum (HyperNews)
  • BABAR/SCS TownHall discussion forum (HyperNews)
  • BFMAIL archive for SITECON mailing list (Site Contacts)
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  • Advanced Topics
  • Usage of SSH 6/30/98
  • BaBar Offline Workbook 12/8/98
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    • Developer Tools and Other Software

  • LSF documentation
  • Required Software - Complete list of 3rd-party software required to run the BABAR code
  • Non-required Software - Softwares that are not required.
  • Justification Policy for Required Software
  • Guildeline of setting up Third Party Software in SRT
  • BABAR-maintained or modified
  • SRT (Software Release Tools) - BABAR software release system
  • CVS (Concurrent Version System) - Code management tool
  • Old stuff
  • STL macros How to use the STLUtility macropackage - required to use STL in BaBar code.
  • "bool" fix How to patch RogueWave STL on Sun and AIX.
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  • Licensed and/or SLAC only software packages
  • valgrind Checks code does what you expect (no leaks or bad memory access), only available on Linux.
  • Purify Purify Leak-check software. Also includes other tools for profiling code, etc.
  • GreatCircle is a leak checker + garbage collector (can handle multi-threads)(recommended tool replacing Memory Advisor and Sentinel). Chris Davis is a seasoned user of Great Circle.
  • Objectivity Object-oriented database system
  • OpenGL (limited availability - wren [AIX] and percheron [solaris])
  • OpenInventor (not yet available)
  • listOS - list machines at SLAC running a particular OS version
  • Old stuff
  • CodeWizard - C++ style checking program [3 licenses]
  • FLEXlm - software license manager
  • Insure++ - C/C++ memory leak detector (site-license)
  • Memory Advisor - (obsolete - please use Insure++)
  • Rational Rose - UML based object oriented design tool [2 SOLARIS licenses]. Support and maintenance contract expired as of Dec. 01, 2001 and BABAR decided not to renew.
  • Sentinel (obsolete - please use Insure++)
  • SNiFF++ has been discontinued as of 17 May 2001
  • Tools.h++ - C++ foundation class library (obsolete - please use Standard Library)

    • Facilities

  • How To Find Memory Leaks in BaBar code.
  • Intro to the BABAR/SCS RAMP (Reference and Migration Platform) facility (aka "porting lab") - available machines of all supported architectures for BABAR developers
  • Intro to SLAC's high performance compute farm and batch & staging systems
  • Batch system in a nutshell
  • Batch Exit Codes
  • Intro to Tapes and Tape Usage within BABAR at SLAC
  • Intro to AFS usage within BABAR
  • List of Unix groups used to access NFS work space (Babar groups only).

    • The BABAR Tools Group

    Core Group
    • Charlotte Hee (eCommerce, DciWebCert, HyperNews, eLogbook, user accounts and support, software licenses administration, web server registration)
    • Terry Hung (code and release management)
    • Victor Serbo
    • John Bartelt (SCS)
    • Douglas Smith
    Maintained by Terry Hung. Send suggestions and additions to
    terryh@slac.stanford.edu, 650-926-3618