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• get yourself a computer account at PCDS (external link to the main PCDS space)
• configure your environment as explained here (the link to the account configuration)
• learn which computing and storage resources are available for LCLS users (external link)
• know where the data of your experiment are located and (use Web Portal to locate the experiment, go to the 'Files' section)
• you may also need to look through our Data Policies (external link). Note that data files of older experiments may not be available on disk and you may need to order then to be restored from tape before you can do your analysis.

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• read an overview of the analysis tools

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• to decided which one would work bets for you

• Read this document

Where to look for help with the Analysis tools

We advise sending your questions to our "hot line" e-mail: pcds-help@slac.stanford.edu. One of our experts will contact you.

In case if you run into some problem with our software then it would be helpful if you provided the following information:

• on which machine you're seeing the problem
• which software are you using
• which data (files, etc.) you're trying to read, or where you're writing your results (intermediate files, etc.)

How to contact us for comments, suggestions on this documentation

We try do our best in keeping documents on this Portal complete and current. If you notice any errors, or if you think we should add something to the Portal then you have two options:

• contact us by

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• sending a message to: pcds-

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• help@slac.stanford.edu
• or leave a comment right at the page which you think needs to be corrected or improved