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You can get into the LCLS photon computing system by ssh'ing to:

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pslogin.slac.stanford.edu

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LCLS provides space for all your experiment's data at no cost for you. This includes the raw data from the detectors as well as the data derived from your analysis. Your raw data are available as XTC files or, on demand, as HDF5 files. The path to the experimental data is:

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/reg/d/psdm/<instrument>/<experiment>

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You can use the psexport pool for copying your data:

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psexport.slac.stanford.edu

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In order to get access to the interactive nodes, connect to psana:

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ssh psana

The psanacs pool is currently made of 32 servers with the following specifications:

  • 16-cores, Sandy Bridge E5-2680, 32GB memory, diskless, 1Gb/s

Some nodes in the interactive pool have one single user Matlab license. You can find which nodes in the pool have a Matlab license available by running the following command:

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/reg/common/package/scripts/matlic

The current Matlab version is 2013a:

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LCLS provides a few Matlab licenses and one IDL license. Instructions on how to use these tools are in the Matlab and IDL pages.

Batch Farms

There are a number of batch farms (i.e. collections of compute nodes) located in the NEH and FEH. Instructions describing how to submit jobs can be found on the Submitting Batch Job page. The batch farms currently consist of eighty nodes with the following general specifications:

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