Richard's SLD Primer
This is part of the SLD Primer that Richard Dubois wrote in May 1994.
It has been mostly superseeded by a much larger work titled
the SLD Offline Users Workbook.
Only those parts that have not yet been superseeded still remain here.
Check the Offline Users Workbook first for any information you are seeking.
Come back here if you have any remaining unanswered questions.
VM Examples
There is a useful set of examples on SLACVM which form a self-guided tutorial.
Try HELP EXAMPLES.
UNIX
The general SLD offline system currently only runs on VMS and VM. Use of
UNIX is restricted to CERN's
PAW. Ntuples are converted from Jazzdata files created
either on VMS or VM, as described in the
SLD PAW description.
IBM RS6000 320's in SLD's control are currently the Ravel, Dali and Bach
workstations. Disk space for PAW ntuples is available (on a sign-up basis)
on a local disk on Ravel (/nfs/ravel/u1 partition).
Monte Carlo Simulations
MC simulations created on the
SLD farm at SLAC are described by .TASK files in SLACVX::[SLDMCM].
Most recent MC for the '93 data can be found on the
MC processing page. There is a .DATACAT file for each .TASK. The
miniDST on tape for the MC300K_* datasets can be found in
DUCSDATACAT:MDSTV3.DATACAT. The VMS disk datacat is in diskmdst2.
R.Dubois 8 May 1994
hacked to pieces by
J.Perl 4 April 1995