Online Tutorial Welcome and Introduction

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What should I expect in participating in this Tutorial?

Objectives

• Introduce instructors and mentors.

• Provide overview of the modules

• Spotlight helpful network provided by Slack channel.

DUNE Computing Consortium

The DUNE Computing Consortium works to establish a global computing network that will handle the massive data streams produced by distributing these across the computing grid. Selected consortia members coordinate DUNE computing activities to new members to acquaint them with the specific and DUNE software and resources.

DUNE Computing Consortium Coordinator: Michael Kirby (Brookhave National Laboratory)

Schedule

The May 2023 DUNE computing training spanned two days: Indico site.

Instructional Crew

Organizers:

• Heidi Schellman (Oregon State University /FNAL)
• David DeMuth (Valley City State University)

Module Authors (in order of appearance in the schedule):

• Michael Kirby (FNAL): storage spaces
• Steven Timm (FNAL): data management
• Tom Junk (FNAL): art and LArSoft
• Kenneth Herner (FNAL): grid and batch job submission

Mentors

• Amit Bashyal (ANL)
• Aaron Higuera (Rice University)
• Pengfei Ding (FNAL)
• Barnali Chowdury (ANL)
• Lino Gerlach (BNL)
• Nilay Bostan (University of Iowa)

Support

You must be on the DUNE Collaboration member list and have a valid FNAL or CERN account. See the old Indico Requirement page for more information. Windows users are invited to review the Windows Setup page.

You should join the DUNE Slack instance and look in #computing-training-basics for help with this tutorial

go to https://atwork.dunescience.org/tools/ scroll down to Slack and request an invite. Please do not do this if you are already in DUNE Slack.

Key Points

• This tutorial is brought to you by the DUNE Computing Consortium.

• The goals are to give you the computing basis to work on DUNE.