The SLD SLACVX Cluster

Introduction

The VAX usage policy is a useful introductionto using the SLACVX cluster. It contains information about which nodesto log into, how to use the SLD batchand staging systems and general hintsfor successful use of the VAX cluster.

Vital Statistics Approx. 1800 SpecInts 220GB Disk, mainly used for data storage 72 GB InputStaging | 81 GB SLDDAT 9 GB OutputStaging
Monitoring the cluster System logs Batch jobs Batch queues Disk space Staging system Tape system DUCS CPU hogs CPU Usage

Documentation

General VMS help

Help on VMS commands, compilers, functions etc.

Multinet

TCPIP for VMS, including FTP, TELNET, FINGER etc

PMDF

Mail delivery facility

SLAC utilities

General purpose SLAC written utilities.

and also the following SLD/Physics related help files:

SLD help files

Help on miscellaneous SLD defined VMS commands

SLD subroutines

Help on SLD subroutines

IDA commands

Help on IDA (SLD's Interactive Data Analysis system) commands

CERNLIB

Help on utilities from some place called CERN

Adminstration

The SLACVX system manager is Mike Wendling, whose homepage contains a bunch of useful links.

The SLACVX cluster always works perfectly of course, but just in caseit doesn't here is a place to keep a list of problems.Also, here's a list of past problems andtheir solutions.

Related Information

• DEC's OpenVMSWWW pages.
• OpenVMS FrequentlyAsked Questions