User Section

CAF User Guide

Draft of Updated CAF User Manual

CafSubmit Commands

CafMon Commands

CAF howto in 3 minutes
Outdated CAF User Manual (see updated draft for current information) [html] [ps] [pdf] (last update June 30, 2005)
FBSNG based CAF User Manual [html] [ps] [pdf](expiried soon)
Important
Recent requirements for running on the dCAFs

Grid-based User policy

If you use any of the grid-based dCAFs, and assume that any dCAF could be grid based, you are accepting the following user policies, in addition to the default Fermilab one.

LCG User Acceptable Use Policy [ pdf]
OSG User Acceptable Use Policy [Doc86-v7] [UsersAUP-V2]

Queue lengths

All (d)CAFs have the same queue lengths, unless it is stated differently.
The default lengths are:

short - 6 hours
medium - 30 hours
long - 72 hours

Monitoring

CAF Monitoring @ FNAL
Fermigrid CAF Monitoring @ FNAL -
long jobs get less resources
- Main page
- History
- Analyze
- Ganglia monitoring of headnode
- Queue prediction (Very experimental)
N.American CAF Monitoring

DCAF - CDF Analysis Farms Outside Fermilab
- ASCAF (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
- PacCAF (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
- BCNCAF (Barcelona, Spain)
- CNAF (Bologna, Italy) - Grid monitor - Site page
- JPCAF(Tsukuba, Japan) - RH73 only- Site page
- LCGCAF - Site page
- RUTCAF (Rutgers ,USA)
- SDSCCAF/UCSD(San Diego, USA) - Site page - dCache
- TORCAF(Toronto, Canada) - CondorView
- KORCAF(KNU,Korea) MC only
- LyonCAF(Lyon, France) MC production only, no long
- CANCAF (Cantabria, Spain)
Test CAF
rsh/ssh/rcp/fcp issue with dCAFs
dCAF Info page (User Principals for DCAFs)

Global Condor CAF Monitoring

Main page
History
Farm overview
Best submit for user:
History graphs 2 (Ex perimental)

Data Access

Useful Info

Admin Section

Announcement

Jan 29 2005 - Please install Condor version 6.7.8 as your batch system
Nov 5 2004 - To make Condor CAF monitor work please download binary executable " rrdtool" to ~cafmon/bin directory.

Monitoring

Documentation

fbsng based CAF
- CAF Admin Guide html, ps
- CAF Software Guide html, ps
- DCAF Installation/Operation Manual (fbsng based) html, ps
Condor based CAF
- Condor CAF Installation Manual html ps
- Condor CAF Operation Manual html
- Glide CAF Installation Manual html

Useful Info

CAF administration job list
CAF/CondorCAF Operation Log
e-log (last updated Sep 17 2002)
CafUtil in codebrowser.

CAF Documentation and Talks

CDF CAF Photos
CAF Weekly Meeting Minutes (no update till May 2003)

CDF Notes

For User:
- CDF6092 - User Guide html, ps
For Administrator:
- CAF Installation
  - CDF6991 - DCAF Installation Manual (fbsng based) html, ps
  - Condor CAF Installation Manual html, ps
- CAF Admin Guide
  - Condor CAF Operation Manual html,
  - FBSNG CAF Admin Manualhtml, ps
For more interest:
- CAF Software Internals html, ps
- CDF5743 - CDF CAF Review Report on Benchmarking [ps]
- CDF5802 - Final Report CDF CAF Review Fall 2001 [ps]
- CDF5961 - CDF CAF Design Document (Stage1) [html] [ps]
- CDF5962 - File Server Evaluation [html] [ps]
- CDF7088 - Condor based CAF [ps]

Talks and Proceedings

May 2002 Collaboration Meeting talk by M. Neubauer [pdf] [ps.gz] [sxi]
Advanced Computing & Analysis Techniques (ACAT'02) talk
"Computing for RunII at CDF" by M.Neubauer, talk [pdf] [ps.gz] [sxi] and proceedings, NIMA 502(2003) 386 [ps]
SuperComupting'05
"GlideCAF" by Igor Sfiligoi [pdf| sxi| ppt]
U.of Chicago talk'06
"CDF way to the Grid" by Igor Sfiligoi [sxi| pdf]
CHEP-06 talks
"GlideCAF" by Subir Sarkar [pdf] paper
"OSGCAF" by Matt Norman [pdf] paper
"LCGCAF" by Armando Fella paper
"Transparently Distributing CDF Software with Parrot" by Igor Sfiligoi poster paper
PASA'06 talk
"Using Condor glide-ins and Parrot to move from Dedicated Resources to the Grid" by Subir Sarkar [pdf|odp]
Condor Week '06
"Using Condor Glide-ins and GCB to run in a grid environment" by Matt Norman [pdf|odp]
CDF Grid Workshop at CDF Collaboration Meeting - Elba 2006
"CAF Architecture" by Elliot Lipeles [ PDF ]
"Glide CAf, the basics" by Subir Sarkar [ PDF ]
"CAF headnode scalability" by Igor Sfiligoi [ OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint ]
"Glide CAF over multiple sites" by Igor Sfiligoi [ OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint ]
"LCG CAF overview and status" by Francesco Delli Paoli [ PDF ]
"Data Handling Offsite - The CNAF experience" by Daniel Jeans [ PowerPoint ]
"MC Production Offsite - 'SAM upload' experience" by Rob Harr [ PowerPoint | PDF ]
"Using SAM for upload" by Gabriele Compostella [ PowerPoint | PDF ]
"The problem of user output" by Igor Sfiligoi [ OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint ]
"CDFSOFT and the Grid" by Igor Sfiligoi [ OpenDocument | PDF | PowerPoint ]
Euro Condor 06
"Using Condor Glide-Ins and GCB to run on the Grid - The CDF experience" by Igor Sfiligoi [OpenDocument, PDF]
CCP2006
"CDF Computing" by Igor Sfiligoi
- talk [HTML, RealPlayer, OpenDocument, PDF]
- paper [PS, LaTex ZIP]

Last updated December 2006 by Igor Sfiligoi