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US ATLAS Analysis Support Center at BNL

Introduction

The mission of the Analysis Support Centers (ASC) is to support the U.S. ATLAS detector performance and physics analysis activities. These centers are expected to provide U.S. ATLAS physicists with training on how to use ATLAS software via tutorials and one-on-one interaction. The ASCs are also expected to support physicists making visits for help with their analysis and/or more advanced software features. It is anticipated that the ASCs are home to a community of users making occasional visits and contributing to the intellectual vitality of the centers. The ASCs play an active role to ensure that U.S. ATLAS physicists effectively participate in the overall ATLAS working groups.

The support at the BNL ASC is provided by the ATLAS groups in the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Lab, in connection with the regional groups in the US Northeast.

US physicists are encouraged to contact the personell for any analysis needs, as well as to make use of the facilities at BNL.

Organization

Next Analysis Jamboree at BNL

The next Analysis Jamboree will be on Nov 17-20, 2009. We will focus on the preparation for analysis of the first collision data.

Analysis Topics

Some of the topics and organizers/participants.

  • egamma : Jae Yu, Scott Snyder
  • muon: David Adams
  • QCD dijets: Stephanie Majewski, Michael Begel, Gabe Rosenbaum
  • di-muon + jets: Frank Paige, Michael Begel, David Adams, Kyoko Yamamoto
  • dilepton tt-bar: Jim Cochran, Akira Shibata, Jake Searcy

Agenda

The agenda can be found in http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=68573

Registration

Please register at this site http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/BNLJamboreeNov09/reserve.php. There is no registration fee. Please use username=atlas and the standard ATLAS password to enable the form submission.

A list of registered participants can be found here

Details for visiting BNL is in BnlAsc#Visiting_BNL.

Location

The meetings will take place in BNL Physics Department, Building 510A, Room 2-84 for general meetings (with a secondary Room 2-111 on the same floor) , and additional space for breakout sessions in Room 1-105 and Room 1-113 in the same building, and a coffee lounge in Room 1-100. Physics Bldg map

Please refer to the BNL Map for directions to lab and the physics department.

Expertise and Points of Contact

Facilities

Visiting BNL

Visitors who already hold a valid BNL Guest Badge may come on site without notification to the main gate. Visitors who already have approved guest appointments, but do not have a Guest Badge will have to notify the BNL main gate of their arrival by checking in here. US citizens without a guest appointment are allowed on site, but we must know the dates of your visit so that the main gate can be notified.

All others must apply for the BNL guest appointment by completing the Brookhaven's Guest Registration Form well in advance of the meeting. You will be notified when the guest appointment is approved. When you arrive at BNL with the approved guest appointment for the first time, you must stop at the security office by the main entrance where you will be issued a temporary pass, then proceed to the RHIC/AGS Users' Office to complete the check-in procedure.

NON-US citizens without BNL guest appointment should complete the BNL Guest Registration form as soon as possible, since it takes additional time for the approval process, especially for people from "sensitive" countries.

Please also note that obtaining a BNL computer account at USATLAS Tier-1 requires an approved guest appointment (irrespective of citizenship).

BNL Visitor information is http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/userindex.html .

Dining

A guide to some of the options are listed on the DiningNearBNL page.

Housing

On-site housing in the BNL dorms is available (approx. $34/night). Summer housing is always tight, so we encourage you to reserve early. There are also on-site guest houses available at approximately $106 per night. For details, see BNL housing webpage http://www.bnl.gov/staffservices/OnsiteHousing/OnsiteHousing.asp . On-site housing is in high demand in the summer, please make the reservation early.

For reservation, please contact the house office directly. Staying in BNL on site housing requires a guest appointment regardless of citizenship.

BNL on-site housing for non-US citizens can only be confirmed after the guest appointment is approved.

For off-site housing, we suggest

  • Hampton Inn
    2000 North Ocean Avenue
    Farmingville, NY
    Phone : +1-631-732-7300
    Directions : East on the Long Island Express, Exit 63 North
    Rates : BNL rate ($112/night )
    Daily rate includes: Daily Continental Breakfast, Wireless Connections, Microwave, Refrigerator, Coffee Makers in each guest room

  • Radisson Hotel (on the site of the former Best Western)
    1730 North Ocean Avenue
    Holtsville, NY
    Phone : +1-631-758-2900
    Directions : East on the Long Island Expressway, Exit 63 South
    Rates : BNL Rate ($109/night, breakfast included)

Computing Environment

We assume everyone will bring a laptop to work on, and everyone has a BNL computer account at the Tier-1. See https://www.racf.bnl.gov/experiments/usatlas/getstarted/useraccounts for getting new accounts.

Network connections, Wireless

All computers connected to BNL network need to be registered with the BNL ITD. When you first connect to the network, your web browser will be connected to a page to register your computer. Enter the appropriate information on the page (your Guest number is needed), re-start the network connection, you will then be connected.

The physics building has visitor wireless network. The name of the wireless access point is Corus2. A few wired connections (inside firewall) are available in rooms 2-84 and 1-105. You need to set http proxy in the web browser after registration, for both wireless and wired connections, see i http://www.bnl.gov/cybersecurity/www.asp for instructions.

If you enable X11 on your laptop, please make sure the usual vulnerability is closed. See details here http://www.phy.bnl.gov/computing/index.php/Computer_Insecurity.

Tier-1 computer account.

If you have not logged onto your BNL account lately, you should be aware that using ssh private key is required. Follow this link https://www.racf.bnl.gov/docs/authentication/ssh/sshkeys.

During Jamborees, we ask for additional interactive nodes be made available. They are included in the pool of the interactive machines, so using "rterm" is sufficient.

Printers

Printing from the ACF farm

On the acas farm, if you want to print, you should log on to atlas00.usatlas.bnl.gov. The printer queue is atlasdc, and the command is 
lpr -Patlasdc filename
Either text file or ps file can be printed. The printer is the large Xerox machine (also a copier) in the printer/mail room (1-81) at the end of the Omega Group hallway.

Printing from laptop on the wireless network

The same Xerox printer, atlasdc, can be reached through a CUPS server. There is also a HP printer in room 1-105 (next to the coffee lounge) for wireless access only.

To print from your laptop, you need to set up a printer queue on your laptop.

  • For windows, Goto Control Panel==> Printer and Fax ==> Add a Printer ==> A network printer ==> connect to a printer on internet, and use these url
    • For HP printer, http://cups:631/printers/phyconfrm.phy.bnl.gov, select the driver for HP Laser Jet 4100 series
    • For Xerox printer, http://cups:631/printers/atlasdc, in both cases, select the driver for Generic, and MS color printer.
  • For Mac OS X, Goto System Preferences==> Print and Fax ==> "+" to Add a Printer ==> Protocol: Internet Printing Protocol - IPP==> Address: cups:631 ==> Queue:
    • For Xerox printer, Queue: printers/atlasdc, select the driver for Xerox Documentation Center 432
    • For HP printer, Queue: printers/phyconfrm.phy.bnl.gov , select the driver for HP Laser Jet 4240 series
  • For Fedora, System==>Administration==>Printing (or system-config-printer as root). Use New to add a printer; put in the queue name, select a queue type of "Networked CUPS (IPP)", server cups, and the additional parameters:
    • For Xerox printer: queue: /printers/atlasdc, model: manufacturer Xerox, Document Center 400 (or just use generic postscript)
    • For HP printer: queue: /printers/phyconfrm.phy.bnl.gov, model: use generic postscript. (The HP-specific setting may not work.)
  • You should be able to figure it out for other Linux distributions from the above!

Activities

Links

-- HongMa - 02 Aug 2006 http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=51566

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