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For everyday personal use, file names can be anything that is convenient for the user. If the files go to tape were produced by a collaboration effort

SAM (Serial Access to Metadata) is a Fermilab product containing databases and servers, designed to help manage large datasets or files. This system contains

dCache is a system of many disks aggregated across dozens of linux disk servers; the total disk space is a few PB. The system lets all this hardware look

CERN Virtual Machine File System (CVMFS) is a distributed disk system for providing an experiment's code and libraries to interactive node and grids worldwide

As Mu2e approaches data-taking there will be many more ntuples, calibration procedures, and analysis code developed. Including this user code in the main

Jenkins is a freeware java code build system that the Scientific Computing Division is maintaining for the experiments. It runs on several powerful build

There are several categories of disk space available at Fermilab. Thsee include limited home areas, Mu2e project disks for building code and small datasets

Spack is a software package setup and build system. It can replace UPS, MRB (Multi-Repo Build) and Muse "package managers". Spack was developed for the

In Mu2e it will be necessary to maintain a database of calibration constants, also known as conditions data. This will include information like the alignment

When running large jobs on grids you must take into consideration all the physical limits on resources. The first question is always: is there a standard

Fermilab maintains several machines for interactive login by Mu2e members. Typically all interactive work would be done on the mu2evm (GPCF) nodes. This

You have one Fermilab username for all computing purposes at Fermilab. It was assigned when you applied for your Fermilab ID and computer accounts. This

The Fermilab computing maintains a system of data tapes called enstore (manual, project), which allows us to "write data to tape" and read files back from

As of mid June 2024, all but one of our interactive machines has been upgraded to the AL9 operating system. All new development work should be done natively

These are notes on using the group account mu2epro, which is used for collaboration-managed production activities. Access is controlled by the k5login

Next Mu2e Geometry Meeting: TBA This page contains two major sections. The top, labeled part 1 through 6, is the "Working Area." This includes contact

One of SAM's main purposes is to store metadata about our files. The mu2e instance of a SAM database has a unique set of metadata fields, listed below

Docker is a company producing an open-source "software container platform", but the word is also used is also used to refer to the platform itself. Docker

these two sets of tutorial materials: CheckoutAndBuildCodeTutorial: an introduction to offline code checkout and build. GeometryBrowserTutorial2019: learn

The Raw Data Mover (RDM) is a set of scripts which move raw data (and other) files from a teststand area to tape. It is automated to make it easier to