Software and Computing
Conduit renewal notes for October 2024
Remaining issues for conduit renewals:
1009:
The following IP's were identified in having vulnerabilities:
198.125.209.10,198.125.209.11,198.125.209.24,198.125.209.40
Restoring Ganglia RRD file location on sun
This is a rough guide to restoring Ganglia RRDs to sun local disk and clean up most of the details
WAH Network Switch NPS details
This is NOT a comprehensive list of NPS units in the WAH, only those used with network switches
Note that in some cases the NPS units listed here also supply power to devices other than
MegaRAID Storage Manager used on STAR servers
Notes about the use of MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) with STAR servers. This page was initially created August 10, 2022 with hastily prepared notes, with more details and clea
Copy & Transfer: MySQL Offline Database Snapshot to NERSC/Cori
Copy & Transfer: MySQL Offline Database Snapshot to NERSC/Cori
CVS->Git
On June 1, 2021, the main repository for STAR offline software has migrated from CVS to GitHub (https://github.com/star-bnl).
Calibration/Production Update
Reference
Speaker : Gene Van Buren ( BNL )
Talk time : 11:15, Duration : 00:15
Another Look at Impacts of SpaceCharge and GridLeak
I ran a simple test of artificially adding SpaceCharge and GridLeak (in separate tests) to see the impact on pT and DCA using the track-by-track comparison tool (documentation [node:3
Evaluation of PHP security tools
Going through https://geekflare.com/php-security-scanner/, primarily using staruser01 and dashboard1 for testing and illustrative purposes. staruser01 is NOT an externally visible webserver
He3 efficiencies (RT2561)
In an effort to take another look at RT2561 (original documentation here), I tried to have a quick look at the He3 reconstruction efficiency as a function of pT (the or
Install Docker & Run STAR SW Container - Scientific Linux
Install Docker & Run STAR Container - Scientific Linux
In search of nightly test slowness
As shown in previous blog posts, some of the nightly tests show very interesting behavior in the ratio of CPU time per event from one test job to another on the same da
In search of 64-bit slowness
Following recent tests by Dmitri and me that showed no library dependence in the 64-bit slowness,
BNL Active Directory Tools and Notes
Mike Poat sent the following in a very helpful email on December 4, 2019:
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Since NetIQ is gone I wanted to offer some instructions on how we access
CPU ratios for nightly tests
I'm posting plots of the results of several of the nightly test jobs from the past 6 days, where the horizontal axis is the 500 events processed nightly (0-499 is Saturday, 500-999 is Sunday, ...etc..