Local Workstations

Our local computer workstations and storage are administered by the Physics Computer Group. Contact help (at) physics.utexas.edu if you have technical issues or for an account (undergraduates will need to ask Peter Onyisi to send the email for them).  Once you are logged in, you will have access to the full set of ATLAS and CERN software, as well as backed up space for code (/code) and a 14 TB data storage space (/data).  You can ssh to the machines from off-campus.

Workstation names

tau{1,2,3}.hep.utexas.edu

Setting up ATLAS software on the workstations

The ATLAS software is distributed to us via CVMFS, a caching filesystem that automatically pulls updates from CERN on demand. To gain access to ATLAS and CERN software, run the following lines at the bash prompt:

export ATLAS_LOCAL_ROOT_BASE=/cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/ATLASLocalRootBase/
export ALRB_localConfigDir=/code/localConfig
. /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/ATLASLocalRootBase/user/atlasLocalSetup.sh

(you can put these lines in your .bash_profile to execute them automatically on login). The following scripts are useful:

• asetup to set up an ATLAS release
• localSetupROOT to set up the latest ROOT release
• localSetupGLite to set up basic Grid tools (including voms-proxy-init to get a Grid proxy)
• localSetupDQ2Client to set up the DQ2 tools to browse and download ATLAS Grid datasets
• localSetupPandaClient to set up the ATLAS Panda Grid job submission tools