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The SLD SLACVX Cluster

Introduction

The VAX usage policy is a useful introduction to using the SLACVX cluster. It contains information about which nodes to log into, how to use the SLD batch and staging systems and general hints for successful use of the VAX cluster.

Vital Statistics Approx. 1800 SpecInts 220GB Disk, mainly used for data storage 72 GB Input Staging | 81 GB SLDDAT 9 GB Output Staging
Monitoring the cluster System logs Batch jobs Batch queues Disk space Staging system Tape system DUCS CPU hogs CPU Usage

Documentation

VMS Bookreader Books

The complete VMS documentation set is now available through the web.

General VMS help

Help on VMS commands, compilers, functions etc.

Multinet

TCPIP for VMS, including FTP, TELNET, FINGER etc

PMDF

Mail delivery facility

SLAC utilities

General purpose SLAC written utilities.

and also the following SLD/Physics related help files:

SLD help files

Help on miscellaneous SLD defined VMS commands

SLD subroutines

Help on SLD subroutines

IDA commands

Help on IDA (SLD's Interactive Data Analysis system) commands

CERNLIB

Help on utilities from some place called CERN

Adminstration

The SLACVX system manager is Mike Wendling, whose home page contains a bunch of useful links.

The SLACVX cluster always works perfectly of course, but just in case it doesn't here is a place to keep a list of problems. Also, here's a list of past problems and their solutions.

Related Information

• DEC's OpenVMS WWW pages.
• OpenVMS Frequently Asked Questions