User Software and Computing

UAF: Introduction

The User Analysis Farm (UAF) is part of the Tier 1 facility at Fermilab. The UAF is a small farm running the LINUX operating system providing interactive computing for users. The load balancing is done on the network switch. Low level monitoring of the hardware like CPU usage, memory usage etc. is provided by GANGLIA and for the UAF have a look here. To check the status of the batch system please have a look here. Below you find a schematic view of the CMS User Computing at Fermilab as of November 2005 (click on the image to obtain .jpeg file). Click on the links to access a pressentation about the UAF given at CMS101 (pdf, ppt).