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The S3DF (SLAC Shared Science Data Facility) is a SLAC-wide computing facility. For LCLS the S3DF will replace the PCDS current computer and storage resources used for data processing.
The S3DF has its own users home directories.
To access to the S3DF systems connect to the s3dflogin pool and login with you unix account:
% ssh s3dflogin.slac.stanford.edu
Within the S3DF the nodes are named sdf*. The login nodes don't have the data folders mounted. Eventually there will be LCLS specific interactive nodes. For data transfers the sdfdtn001 - sdfdtn005 are provided.
/sdf/group/lcls/ds with the two sub-directories for analysis (/sdf/group/lcls/ds/ana) and data-management (/sdf/group/lcls/ds). The ana folder contains many sub-directories for psana releases (sw), detector calibration (detector) and more. The above prefix is similar to the /cds/group/psdm in PCDS.
/sdf/data/lcls/ds/<instr>/<expt>/<expt-folders>
S3DF-maintained facility documentation can be found here.
% source /sdf/group/lcls/ds/ana/sw/conda1/manage/bin/psconda.sh [-py2]
The command above activates by default the most recent python 3 version of psana. New psana versions do not support python 2 anymore, but it still possible to activate the last available python 2 environment (ana-4.0.45) using the -py2
option.
% source /sdf/group/lcls/ds/ana/sw/conda2/manage/bin/psconda.sh
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.