The
Lund AliEn plan or:
How I learned to stop worrying and love AliEn:-)
Stage 1: AliEn and Grid certificates for everyone
We need to:
- Provide documentation on how to use ROOT, AliRoot and
AliEn - link
Responsible: Peter - Provide documentation for how to get a grid
certificate - link
Responsible: Peter - Obtain a grid certificate and get it signed by the ALICE Virtual Organization (VO)
Responsible: everyone - Provide installation documentation - link
Responsible: Peter and Philippe - Install a local working version of AliEn
Responsible: Philippe, Peter, Alex. - Install a working version of AliEn on musse.hep.lu.se
that can be used by everyone
- link to .cshrc setup
Responsible: Philippe, Peter, Alex. - How to see which files are available and staged
- MonALISA web page
(select staged="yes" to see staged files)
Responsible: Philippe, Peter - Provide documentation for how to log on to musse, run
alien, and copy one file - link
Responsible: Philippe, Peter - Log on to musse, run alien and copy one file
Responsible: everyone
Stage 2: Analysis and Simulation on the Grid
We need to:
- Provide example of analysis of
simulated data - download tar-ball example
here (documentation in the file ptspectra.C)
Responsible: Philippe and Peter - Provide example of analysis of TPC data
Responsible: Philippe and Peter - Provide example of how to generate Pythia simulation
data - link
Responsible: Alex - Run Pythia example
Responsible: Philippe and Peter - Run analysis example of choice
Responsible: everyone
Open questions
Here we can add the questions that will arise during our work.
How to:
- Run a program locally on the Nordic Grid
- Run an AliRoot program locally on the Nordic Grid