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Please note that on these days it will not be possible to work at the entire PSI (office/laboratory), since the power supply, the computer network and the cooling supply can be temporarily switched off. | | T3 downtime October 5 at 14:00 -- 02. 10. 2017 NinaLoktionova
The reason is SW security updates and firmware updates on storage HW to fix failure of Controller battery. |

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T3 User information

• Request a T3 account
• Mailing Lists and Support
  • To receive information about the T3 (downtimes, issues, etc.) and for discussions among users and admins, subscribe to the cms-tier3-users list by this web interface (list archives)
  • To contact only the T3 administrators write to : cms-tier3@lists.psi.ch
  • Both lists are read by the T3 administrators and are archived. You can submit support requests to either of them. Mails to the user list are read by each subscribed T3 user.
• How to access, set up, and test your T3 account
• How to retrieve your corrupted/deleted /shome files
• How to use NX to efficiently work remotely with graphical applications
• How to check the CPUs, /shome, /scratch & /tmp policies
• How to work interactively in a CMS environment, use CERN AFS, CMS /cvmfs, /swshare ROOT
• How to use the Storage Element (SE)
• How to quickly search into /pnfs ( Optional )
• How to submit Sun Grid Engine ( SGE ) jobs
  • Generic jobs and simple CMSSW jobs + basic job monitoring and accounting
  • Manage SGE Jobs
  • Debugging your SGE jobs on the worker nodes
  • CRAB2 jobs for running locally on the T3 ( Outdated )
• How to order the CMS data sets
  • Data set cleaning: Page with query on data sets to be deleted
• Initial design concept on how users should be able to work on the Tier-3
• Monitoring

T3 Groups Organization

• Physics Groups overview page

User Meetings, Presentations

• Visit (Virtual) to ETHZ (March 2015)
• Visit to UZH (Feb 2015)
• T3 initial user meeting (Sept 2009)
• T3 phase B upgrade (Jan/Feb 2010)

General Information

• Cluster overview, pictures, etc.
• GOC Data Base entry

Administrator Information

• AdminArea
• PSI Tier-3 log

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