MINOS Offline Computing Documentation

Links for Beginners - primers and cribs	WebDocs Navigation, Tutorials, Package Overviews, Concept Overviews. Setup base release at FNAL.
Documents - manuals, glossaries & FAQs	User Manual at FNAL ([HTML], [PS]) Package, software and other glossaries. Minos software FAQ pages and old docs Production Scripts Documentation
Organisation - working and communicating	Global and local organization. Mailing list with archives (also older ones). HyperNews for discussions and meetings.
Tools - to develop, build & debug	Accessing Our Respository. CVS and SRT (older SRT UserManual) Managing base and test releases Random help and tool reviews, utility scripts and hints on handling bugs. Library compile flags + utilities, transitioning to SL5 and 64-bit machines
Off-line Framework - for reconstruction & analysis	Packages, requirements ([HTML] [PS]), code browsers: doxygen [at Ox., at FNAL, or local].
Reconstruction Software - for event analysis	De-multiplexers, Calibration Framework, Standard Reconstruction (SR) classes ([HTML], [PS]), and to-do list.
Installation - of framework & support libs	Supported platforms, Software, Live CD and Database distribution and DB for laptops
Applications - configuring and running	Preparation for and configuring of the offline job. Documentation on libMidad. How to run rotorooter, minfast and reroot. Running on LCG GRID
Code Development - both private and public	How to create and use a test release. Our coding conventions in full, hot list, emacs macros. Understanding errors messages. How to document your code\for doxygen. Debugging and optimising. Database Portability Issues.
Status - problems & progress	Code: Bug tracking through files and JIRA, todo list, changelog, List of Frozen and Snapshot Releases, Package Maintenance . Sites: FNAL Farm Production Statistics , Data Handling, Nightly Code Build, view local webs.
Data - from Detectors & Databases	Data: Getting data, Run search (via sam), SAM Data Handling System, XROOTD access, General Data Handling Information, File Names, Standard N-tuples, DbuSubRunSummary search (old) Database: Overview, Table Status, Distribution, Priming Sets, Update log, Size, Web interface, Hardware ( DB  development), laptops. Auxillary: Files associated with code releases (via proxy files)
FNAL Systems - general collaboration computing	MINOS FNAL Cluster: general notes cluster basics node overview ganglia local disk usage Farm Production System: Production Scripts Documentation Farm Production Statistics
Online & DAQ - not us, but convenient links	CRL, Far/Near DAQ logs, FarDet Status, NearDet Status
Monte Carlo - beam and detectors	Look here 1st!: Practical MC Information Beam Info: GNUMI Detectors: GMINOS Framework: labyrinth NEUGEN3 How to start generating beam events somewhat easily: GMINOS jobs FFR Card generator package Photon and Front-end electronics simulation: DetSim and PhotonTransport provide the Digitization-friendly system for applying detector simulation to Reroot files. MC Calibration: Some notes on calibration/decalibration of the MC. Often useful: A guide to the numeric codes used in StdHep may be found in the User's Manual Atmospheric & Cosmic MC at Cambridge: Located here Public MC Produced: MC File naming Scheme MC on Enstore Summary Page MC Working Group Page
WebDocs Maintenance - guidelines	Author hints, structure and running doxygen

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