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

groomed mass fraction, log(kT) vs Rg

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

TpcRS update due to 19GeV 2019 (RDO mask, padGainT0, and Gating Grid)

 

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

Speaker : Gene Van Buren ( BNL )


Talk time : 11:15, Duration : 00:15
Productions:

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

test

test

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:

"""
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..

DB & Docker

Docker-based STAR database installations and related tools

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October 30, 2018

Removed old fc3 from BCF rack and cleaned up BCF work area