%IF{"(NOT defined GROUP) OR $GROUP = ''" then=' How to add the first administrator If you haven\'t previously set up an administrator, follow these steps: (Note:...
Wiki Administrator User The AdminUser allows you to login without needing to register a user, or to temporarily login as AdminUser using the password set in confi...
Nevis particle physics administrative cluster This page is obsolete. The complexity and failure modes of HA clusters was too much for a small site like ours. This...
Nevis particle physics administrative cluster This is a description of the organization of the administrative computers on the Nevis Linux cluster . The emphas...
August 2009 System Upgrades There's only a two week "window" in which I can perform these upgrades with the least impact on the Nevis research groups. General p...
As of Nov 2021, this service is experimental. The Time Machine backup is located on a Synology NAS server whose operation, at least for this purpose, can be flake...
Details of running condor at Nevis Warning signs If your condor script or program does any of the following, it's a warning sign that your job might crash (or wo...
CentOS 7 upgrades Scientific Linux 6 (SL6) will reach the end of its maintenance life on 30 Nov 2020. We have to consider what to do with those systems that are s...
Particle/Nuclear physics computing at Nevis Labs The following links will provide you with information on the computer operations and services available. (Some of...
Condor Basics This page describes some of the basics for setting up jobs on the particle physics computer cluster at Nevis. For a quick introduction to condor at...
Configuring SpamAssassin at Nevis Short version Look at ~seligman/.spamassassin/user_prefs. Copy what's relevant to your own ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs and edit ...
Nevis particle physics administrative cluster configuration Archived 20 Sep 2013: The high availability cluster has been set aside in favor of a more traditional ...
CtaGroup * Member list (comma separated list): * Set GROUP = .AdminGroup, .DanielNieto, .BrianHumensky, .MarleneDoert, .AndriyPetrashyk, .ZacharyZhong, .D...
DNS servers for the Nevis particle physics groups A DNS resolver or server is a system that's queried to translate an IP name (like mail.nevis.columbia.edu) into ...
DZeroGroup * Set GROUP = .AdminGroup, .GustaafBrooijmans * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = .DZeroGroup Related topics: , WikiGroups, .AccessControl .WilliamSeligm...
Linux Cluster Disk Guide The most important things to learn from this page: * /home and /share partitions are backed up. * /data and /scratch are not. * ...
Disk sharing and the condor batch system Background You don't want to read this page. You just want to submit your jobs and not think about disk files or whe...
EBubbleGroup * Set GROUP = .AdminGroup, .JeremyDodd * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = .AdminGroup, .EBubbleGroup Related topics: , WikiGroups, .AccessControl .Willi...
Environment modules on the Nevis particle physics Linux cluster Environment modules are a way of setting up a Linux shell environment. On the cluster, we ...
Should we switch from Fedora to Scientific Linux? Background Back in 2004, when Redhat stopped offering their distribution for free, I asked representatives from...
FutureTevGroup * Member list (comma separated list): * Set GROUP = .AdminGroup, .NeutrinoGroup, .NuSOnGGroup, .FutureTev * Persons/group who can chang...
Running GENIE at Nevis To run the GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo at Nevis, you can take one of two approaches: * Use a software suite (GENIE and its external packa...
Git Below are basic commands to get around git. There are plenty more available, and your usage will become complicated as you go. You may want to read the git bo...
Glossary Some TLAs and definitions to help you get started. (What's a "TLA"? Look it up below.) The terms are not in alphabetical order; they are roughly in ord...
GroupViewTemplate %IF{ "'.GroupViewTemplate' allows 'change' AND 'GroupViewTemplate' != 'BaseGroup' AND 'GroupViewTemplate' != 'NobodyGroup' AND {AdminUser...
Jupyter notebook server at Nevis Jupyter (formerly IPython) has become a popular tool for interactive physics analysis. Here are some examples of what you can do ...
IaxoGroup * Member list (comma separated list): * Set GROUP = .AdminGroup, .JooyunWoo, .EftychiaKotsiou, .YueYu, .MarcelaStern, .KerstinPerez, .VyshnaviSab...
Jupyter/ROOT Containers Users of the Nevis particle physics Linux cluster have access to a notebook server that lets them execute Python and ROOT C scripts o...
Using Terminal in Jupyter This page focuses on issues when using the Terminal emulator (terminado) when running Jupyter or JupyterLab on notebook.nevis.columbia.e...
LArSoft at Nevis This documents how to use the LArSoft and MicroBooNE software as managed by mrb git. If you are looking for older LArSoft versions managed by SRT...
LArSoft at Nevis The Nevis copy of the LArSoft installation is currently in /a/share/westside/seligman/microboone/LArSoft. As of 21 Jan 2014, the following Fermil...
Nevis Linux Cluster Overview The Nevis Linux Cluster may seem a bit confusing at first. It's actually several smaller clusters linked together. Each working gro...
Nevis Linux Cluster Node Names These are the names of the computers in the Nevis Linux Cluster. Some machines that are not listed: * the systems on the Nevis ...
Nevis Mailing List Server Help Page If you are looking for the main Nevis web site, or information about Nevis mail , click on the appropriate links in this se...
Running NUISANCE at Nevis NUISANCE is a tool for comparing the output of different neutrino event generators, including GENIE, NuWro, and GiBUU. Super quick gui...
Nevis Networks and Firewall Restrictions This web page contains a discussion of the Nevis network environment, including some of the traffic restrictions imposed ...
Nevis Seminars The Nevis Seminar is designed to bring the different research groups at Nevis together to present their work on a monthly basis. * Where: Nevis ...
NuclearGroup * Set GROUP = .AdminGroup, .BillZajc * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = NuclearGroup Related topics: , WikiGroups, .AccessControl .WilliamSeligman 01...
Proposal Look here for the OVChannelMappingFix. OV Channel Mapping Conventions There are 5 different numbering conventions used to indicate the 64 "channels" in ...
OV Channel Mapping Proposal 1) Resolve Strip # Geometry Inconsistencies: UC Strip # and OV firmware assumed layout (Looking from PMT end down the length of the mo...
The OfficeLocations topic has a list of all your offices. * NevisResearchBuilding * NevisElectronicsBuilding * NevisCyclotronBuilding * PupinCampusBui...
Basic diagnostics for the high availability cluster Archived 20 Sep 2013: The high availability cluster has been set aside in favor of a more traditional single b...
Nevis particle physics administrative cluster configuration Archived 20 Sep 2013: The high availability cluster has been set aside in favor of a more traditional ...
Nevis Printing This page describes some basic commands related to printing on the Nevis Linux cluster . How to configure printers on your laptop If you connec...
Nevis Linux Cluster Services This is the list of which machines provide the different network services on the cluster. If some terms are unfamiliar, you can try l...
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Student File Server Rationale The space available in a system's /home directory is small. Space often runs out, requiring users to frantically decide what to kee...
Computer room temperature and cluster shutdown The main computer area for the Nevis particle physics groups is room 119; the ATLAS group has a separate Tier3 clus...
%IF{"context registration_supported" then="** __ "}%" else="**" }% Read this before you attempt to register You must have a research connection with Nevis Labs...
Welcome to the Wiki pages of the particle and nuclear physics groups at Nevis Laboratories These Wiki pages are written by and for the particle and nuclear physi...
Where is the Neutrino group? The link to the Neutrino web on the Wiki is https://wiki.nevis.columbia.edu/bin/view/Neutrino/WebHome . If you aren't a member o...
The Whys and Hows of the Wiki Why bother with a Wiki? It looks complicated. A Wiki is a collaborative web environment. You can read more about it in the introd...
List of Foswiki users Below is a list of users with accounts. If you want to edit topics or see protected areas of the site then you can get added to the list by ...
Wireless routers Access The Nevis particle physics group maintains several wireless routers throughout the upper portion of the Nevis site. They are all protecte...