These pages intend to get you set up for the software tutorial week and make sure you are ready for your work on ATLAS.
You can run the tutorial hands-on sections using either option:
(A) lxplus, or
(B) Tier3 machine (a site, your own laptop, or the CernVM guest machine). You may first want to ensure that you are able to do password-less logins or preferably Kerberos authentications to these machines. Instructions to do this can be found here.
As of November 2020, we strongly suggest you use lxplus for the purpose of this tutorial
However, below you will find instructions for either lxplus or the tier3 option, choose one. There may be problems with using some of the tier3 sites for analysis, it is difficult to test everything! In theory though, they should be a viable option.
These machines are ATLAS ready and you do not have to install additional software.
To log into lxplus you should type:
ssh -Y -l <username> lxplus.cern.ch
For this tutorial we will use EOS to store our source code (more info on next page).
To check X11 forwarding is done correctly (the -Y part after ssh) type something like xterm.
Check that your machine is ATLAS-ready. If you are managing your machine, the minimal requirements are
Login to your Tier3 (if you are not already logged on) with the -Y option so that your X-windows are exported back.
ssh -Y -l <username> <your tier3 hostname>
To check X11 forwarding is done correctly (the -Y part after ssh) type something like xclock or xlogo.