From ATLAS-TRIUMF

For our local group's computing needs, distinct from the Tier 1, we run the following:

• TRIUMF Tier-3 Server which has many current release Updates installed. Sometimes we even run KitValidation on them and make sure they work.
• DesktopCluster
• Tier-3 Cluster TRIUMFAtlasTier3

The Tier-3 server runs some user services for ATLAS-Canada, in addition to the TRIUMF Tier-3 services. We won't discuss those here. For the local group, the relevant services on the Tier-3 server are:

• Athena releases installation (for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures)
• gLite User Interface
• Ganga
• pacman

How to setup your desktop / laptop to use ATLASLocalRootBase

Some notes on setting up ATLAS software at TRIUMF and running Athena jobs from TRIUMF on lxplus, on your workstation or on the GRID.

Most of the desktop machines for the ATLAS group at TRIUMF are combined in a cluster. If you have an account on one of them, you should be able to log into it from any of them and access your home directory as if you were on your own machine (the only catch is that your own machine, where the home directory is physically, has to be working at the time). The cluster master is a virtual machine on UPS. The data/scratch disks are mostly mounted so that they can be seen from all of the nodes in the cluster. As of 2008/01/23, there are 6 desktop machines in the cluster. Three of them are monitored.

Using PROOF has some information on how to use the PROOF cluster.

Local cluster setup notes details for adding user accounts and cluster nodes

Monitoring for local ATLAS Cluster and Tier-3 Server

Local ATLAS Computing Wish List

I am currently trying to upgrade the cluster to SL5.

Setting up FreeNX