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Programming Tips

Root

Installing root

root can be downloaded from root.cern.ch There are a few packages you will need on your system; on ubuntu 9.10, I needed libx11-dev, libxft-dev, libxpm-dev and libxext-dev. All the requirements the root page reccomends can be had using:

sudo apt-get install make g++ gcc binutils libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxft-dev libxext-dev

If you have that, untar the root package, and in the unzipped folder, run ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-soversion then make (or if you want; make -j n where j is the number of cores in your machine)

Setting up root

Setting the plot style to plain

In your home directory, make a file called .rootrc containing the following line:

Rint.Logon: ~/rootlogon.C

Next make that file and paste in the following code:

{
  gROOT->SetStyle("Plain");
  gStyle->SetCanvasBorderMode(0); // turn off canvas borders
  cout << "******************************" << endl; 
  cout << "* Welcome to ROOT v" << gROOT->GetVersion() << " *" << endl; 
  cout << "******************************" << endl; 
  cout << endl;
}

This switches off the toner wasting gray backgrounds on plots and the bizarre yellow borders.

ATLAS Software

ATLAS software tutorials in the wiki:

• Neil's atlfast I tutorial
• Files in our network storage

Packages of note

• Generators/EvgenJobTranforms
• Generators/EvgenATLAS.JobOptions - Set of standard JobOptions for many processes of importance. Standardized such that samples can be merged with production sets.

Computing resources

Application servers are listed here: Application servers. For external use, linappserv1 acts as a gateway to the network, and is reasonably fast. Internally, linappserv0 is the fastest machine we have. linappserv3 & 4 are usually quiet, so good for running jobs that may take some time to complete. 1, 3, & 4 use 'Linux based on Scientific Linux CERN SLC release 4.8 (Beryllium)' while linappserv0 uses 'Linux based on Scientific Linux CERN SLC release 5.4 (Boron)'. All machine names can be accessed locally (e.g. ssh user@linappserv0) and those accessable outside can be found as X.pp.rhul.ac.uk (e.g. ssh user@linappserv1.pp.rhul.ac.uk).

The faraday cluster is controlled via machine ui1. Instructions for using the cluster are here: How to use the cluster. The cluster uses 'Linux based on RedHat Scientific Linux CERN Release 3.0.5 (SL)' which does not support current ATLAS software.