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The S3DF has its own users home directories.

Accessing the S3DF

To access to the S3DF systems  connect to the s3dflogin pool and login with you unix account:

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Within the S3DF the nodes are named sdf*.  The login nodes don't have the data folders mounted and no Slurm tools. For data transfers, data transfer nodes (s3dfdtn.slac.stanford.edu) are provided.

Interactive cluster

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s3df_psana
s3df_psana

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sdfloginNNN % ssh psana      # interactive nodes, same name as in PCDS but different nodes

Data and Software

The data-systems group folder, /sdf/group/lcls/ds, contains software packages and tools with several sub-folders:

/sdf/group/lcls/ds/anapsana1/psana2 release, detector calibartion,..
/sdf/group/lcls/ds/toolssmalldata-tools, cctbx, crystfel, om, ....
/sdf/group/lcls/ds/dmdata-management releases and tools.


LCLS experimental data

The experiments analysis storage and fast-feed-back storage is accessible on the interactive and batch nodes. 

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export SIT_PSDM_DATA=/sdf/data/lcls/ds/               # offline analysis
export SIT_PSDM_DATA=/sdf/data/lcls/drpsrcf/ffb       # FFB analysis 

S3DF Documentation

S3DF-maintained facility documentation can be found here.

Using psana in S3DF

To access data and submit to Slurm use the interactive cluster (ssh psana).

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% source /sdf/group/lcls/ds/ana/sw/conda2/manage/bin/psconda.sh

Jupyter

Jupyter is provided by the onDemand service (We are not planning to run a standalone jupyterhub as is done at PCDS. For more information check the S3DF interactive compute docs).

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