The DELSHIFT (DELphi SHIFT) Service

SHIFT, the Scalable Heterogeneous Integrated FaciliTy, is a collection of powerful CPU platforms interconnected by a high speed network which permit the batch analysis of the large physics data sets currently produced by the HEP experiments at CERN.

The DELPHI SHIFT service consists of 21 Alpha's and 3 HP's

Configuration as of August 1998

• Questions/Remarks about DELSHIFT are to be sent to: delphi-core@cern.ch or through this Report form

• Please follow the official DELPHI Template script

• Submission to the LSF Batch System
  • Command to look for, through their man pages (man the_command), are:
    • delsub (submission -- wrapper to bsub)
    • bpeek (output survey)
    • bjobs (jobs survey)
    • bkill (jobs killing)
    • others...

• Useful DELPHI pages are:
  • The use of LSF in DELPHI
  • DELPHI Frequently Asked Questions
  • User Guide for Computing and Analysis

• Tools to create and/or submit scripts are:
  • rskelana (creation, interactive execution, submission) - contact the author
  • Have a look at the example job at ~pubxx/public/testjob/skelexa.csh

• DELSHIFT Coordinators:
  • Jean-Damien Durand, Jan van Eldik, Ryszard Gokieli