STAR Computing Tutorials
This
page contains all tutorials on STAR computing. Report inaccuracies
and deficiencies to the maintainer. Comments welcome; send to
starsofi-hn@www.star.bnl.gov.
Please contribute tutorials! There's a template in
/afs/rhic.bnl.gov/star/doc/www/comp/train/tut/template.html.
Use the
icon to flag new and heavily modified tutorials. The old page can
be found here (its content and
links are no longer maintained and most probably obsolete).
Run and Production
One stop for new users ...
- If you're new to STAR
- Getting help and reporting problems
- Computing overview (Oct 2004 – J. Lauret)
- General Computing overview (Nov 2003 – J. Lauret)
Computing environment
- Setting
up your STAR environment
- Setting up a Mac OS X machine for STAR offline computing
- Setting up a user account for AFS home directory owners - Introduction to the Computing Environment (July 2003)
Coding, C++ & ROOT related help
- Maker and IO Model in STAR
- StEvent
IO Model
and how to write a Maker for a new detector (Nov 2003 – A. Ogawa) - Going from ROOT to ROOT4STAR (Nov 2003 – V. Fine)
Database, Data & Job Management
- I/O and DB Maker Operation
- Using LSF at PDSF : How to make it work for you (August 2003)
- Running Jobs on the Farm(s) (Nov 2003 - J. Lauret)
- FileCatalog tutorial ( August 2003)
- Using the Scheduler for dispatching batch (August 2003 -- Lee Barnby)
- Grid 101, basics (August 2003)
Offline Software and Analysis
- Setting up STAR
software and environment at a remote site (November 2006)
- GridCollector help, tutorial, how-to (July 2004)
- GSTAR overview and tutorial (August 2003)
- a MuDST Tutorial (October 2006)
- Using Common Micro-DST (August 2003)
- Software infrastructure and remote sites (Nov 2003 – P. Chaloupka)
- STAR Software Basics (Nov 2003 – O. Barannikova)
Miscellaneous information
- Usage of cons (make replacement) in STAR
- Basics for using the STAR offline computing environment
- Setting up your offline computing environment
- Software releases and release policy
- Offline directory structure
- Developing offline software