8th to 10th January 2007 at Edinburgh - UK National-eScience Centre (NeSC)

Announcement, general information, on-line-registration and important dates are found here.

Main programme

Presentations and practical sessions take place at NeSC. The agenda is found here.

Requisites

Participants need to have a valid Grid certificate and be registered with the LHCb virtual organisation (V0). Information on obtaining and registering a certificate can be found at:

• UK National Grid Service page
• Grid-Ireland Certificate Authority
• CERN Certification Authority
• LCG Users Registration page

Participants also need an LHCb account on the CERN LXPLUS machines. You're usually given an account automatically when you register as an LHCb user. If you don't have an account, or haven't registered, you should contact the LHCb secretariat (lhcb-secretariat@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch), who will be happy to assist you.

Pre-course exercises

Some warmup exercises before the start:

• 1) Essential: Make sure that you have an LHCb account on LXPLUS.
• 2) Essential: Obtain a Grid certificate and register with the LHCb virtual organisation (V0).
• 3) Make sure you're familiar with AFS, basic Linux shell commands and file editing. Most people in LHCb use tcsh (shell) and emacs (editor). You're free to choose something different, but this tends to mean that you'll have less support in case of problems.
• 4) Gain some familiarity with C++. You might find useful the BaBar C++ course (follow links to pdf files).
• 5) Learn a little Python. Python is used in a number of areas in LHCb, and you'll find it useful to have at least worked through the first three sections of the Python tutorial.
• 6) Register to CERN TWikiSite: registration

Documentation

Previous courses have excellent material.

• LHCb computing page

Material for the course

It is very slow to use Emacs in graphical mode from CERN. Instead, please try using Emacs in text mode:

    [lxplus001] % emacs -nw myfile.cpp

Some of the common control keys used in emacs are:

• Control + C: quit
• Control + S: save
• Control + W: save as
• Control + F: open file
• Control + K: close buffer
• Control + Shift + '-' : undo action
• Control + X + 1: make one window
• Control + X + 2: split window in two (horizontal)
• Control + X + 3: split window in two (vertical)
• Control + X + O (not 0): switch to next window
• Control + X + B: switch to next buffer

If the BookKeeping page is not available here are some of the data set description needed:

• DataSet_DaVinci_1.txt: Data set for DaVinci exercise 1

List of participants

• Final list of participants 08/01/07

• Speakers: Tomasz Szumlak (Glasgow), Jonas Rademacker (Bristol), Karl Harrison (Cambridge), Raja Nandakumar (RAL), Patrick Koppenburg (Imperial College London), Cristina Lazzeroni (Cambridge), Ulrich Kerzel (Cambridge), Raluca Muresan(Oxford), David Hutchcroft (Liverpool), Chris Jones (Cambridge)

Organisers

Peter Clarke, Karl Harrison, Cristina Lazzeroni, Andres Osorio, Glenn Patrick, Raja Nandakumar

NeSC team: Yvonne Anderson, Lee Callaghan, Mark Pellegrini

Group pictures

• Picture photo 1:
  

• Picture photo 2:
  

• All pictures are here (but will not stay forever). Click on a picture to start and then on the picture again to continue.

• If you need full resolution drop Patrick.Koppenburg@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch an e-mail.

Claiming procedure

Glenn provided the following instructions for claiming your travel expenses:

• Claim_Instructions.txt: Claiming procedure - instructions

Forms can also be downloaded from this page. Please have a look to the attachements.