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

• BNL Analysis Support Center Coordinator: Hong Ma
• An Advisory Committee is formed to advise the operation of the center. The members are Keith Baker (chair), Gustaaf Brooijmans, Kaushik De, Dan Levin.
• Administrative Contacts: Linda J Feierabend, Penka N. Novakova

Expertise and Points of Contact

• ATLAS software builds Alex Undrus
• Athena Core Software Srini Rajagopalan, Scott Snyder
• Physics Analysis Tools Ketevi A. Assamagan, Kyle Cranmer
• Distributed Analysis Tadashi Maeno
• Distributed Data Management David Adams
• Data Production Pavel Nevski
• Database Servers Yuri Smirnov
• Trigger Performance Kyle Cranmer, George Redlinger
• Calorimeter Software and egamma Performance Srini Rajagopalan, Hong Ma
• Muon Software and Performance Ketevi A. Assamagan, Stephane Willocq
• Jet/EtMiss Frank Paige
• High Energy Physics Theory Frank Paige

Facilities

• US ATLAS Tier-1 Computing Facility
• Video conference room, 2-84, Bldg 510 (Physics Department)
• Visitors office, Room 1-100, 1-105, 1-113, Bldg 510 (Physics Department)

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 Visitor Wireless Zone

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.bnl.org
  • 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.bnl.org , select the driver for HP Laser Jet 4100 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.bnl.org, 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

• AnalysisJamboree2006: Two analysis jamborees are organized in the summer of 2006.
• BsmJamboree2006: Analysis Jamboree on Beyond the Standard Model CSC Notes
• BnlJamboreeMay2007: Analysis Jamboree, May 14-18, 2007
• BnlJamboreeAug2007: Trigger Analysis Jamboree, Aug 6-10, 2007
• BnlJamboreeDec2007: Analysis Jamboree, Dec 17-19, 2007
• BnlJamboreeMar2008: Analysis Jamboree, Dec March 17-20, 2008

Links

• BNL user office http://www.bnl.gov/userscenter/
• ArgonneASC: US ATLAS Analysis Support Center At ANL
• AnalysisSupport: US ATLAS Analysis Support in general
• US ATLAS meeting agenda page

-- HongMa - 02 Aug 2006