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Basics

Register as a SLAC user and obtain a SLAC computing account.
Account info can be found on the Tier2 page, along with other info on local computing at SLAC.

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If you have any questions please post them to the Non-Grid Jobs at SLAC Forum in the ATLAS Hypernews system,
where all local SLAC ATLAS computing issues are discussed. (If you don't have an ATLAS account, please mail me.)Here's how

How to get up and running quick

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#Do this just once:
cd
cp ~ahaas/.bashrc .
cp ~ahaas/.profile .
mkdir .hepix; cp ~ahaas/.hepix/* .hepix/
echo "none" > ATLCURRENT
mkdir reldirs
cp -r ~ahaas/cmthome .

The "cmthome" directory contains the all-important "requirements" file, which defines the CMT environment you're in,
see it below in "Bonus material".

You And you may want to have an area with >500MB of storage space (the /afs home limit).
If you're in group "atlas" and/or "atlas-user" (check with "groups")...

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You should be able to run anything from the CERN workbook.

You also are also ready to use the GRID easily, see instructions here.

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And there were many good talks at our WT2 users' forum workshop.

Bonus material

The default "requirements" file:

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set CMTSITE STANDALONE
set SITEROOT /afs/slac/g/atlas/b/
#set DBRELEASE_OVERRIDE 7.1.1

macro ATLAS_DIST_AREA ${SITEROOT}
macro ATLAS_TEST_AREA ${HOME}/reldirs
apply_tag setup
apply_tag simpleTest
use AtlasLogin AtlasLogin-* $(ATLAS_DIST_AREA)