1. How to get a SpinQuest computing account

[Adapted from Amitav's notes]

Fermilab Computing Account – Steps

If you already have a Fermilab computing account you can skip these steps.

1. Requesting access

• How-to: https://uscms.org/uscms_at_work/physics/computing/getstarted/getaccount_fermilab.shtml#ComputingAccountDetails
• Request form: https://fermi.servicenowservices.com/new_acct_request.do
• For the affiliation, people generally just select “E-892-919 (CMS)”.

2. After the request has been accepted, you are given a default password for your Kerberos and Services accounts

• Call 630-840-2345 to be given the default passwords
• Change Kerberos password: https://fermi.servicenowservices.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0010628
• Change Services password: https://fermi.servicenowservices.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0010542

3. Connecting to the LPC CAF (Central Analysis Facility)

• https://uscms.org/uscms_at_work/physics/computing/getstarted/uaf.shtml
• Now you can connect to the cmslpc cluster

4. Setting up VPN: https://uscms.org/uscms_at_work/computing/setup/remote.shtml

• People generally do not need this, since VPN isn’t needed for kinit, ssh, scp, sftp to cmslpc*.fnal.gov

Requesting Specific Account Access:

If you have applied for the CMS account in Step 1:

• We need to apply for access to specific computing clusters E-906 (Drell-Yan) SeaQuest and E-1093 SpinQuest. Go to the Fermilab service desk to request computing accounts for these two specific experiments: https://fermi.servicenowservices.com/wp

Once there:

• Click “Request Service”
• Search for, or find in the list, “Experiment/Project/Collaboration Computing Account”
• Fill in name, Kerberos Principal (username essentially), desired affiliation/experiment, your institution name
• By default, keep “No” for Computing/IT Professional Access Only section
• Then just wait for approval!

Repeat the procedure twice for E-906 (Drell-Yan) SeaQuest and E-1039 SpinQuest respectively.

If you are not part of CMS

• Request form: https://fermi.servicenowservices.com/new_acct_request.
• For the affiliation, choose E-1039 SpinQuest.

Sometimes we might need to email Kun ([email protected]) and Nhan ([email protected]) to notify that we submitted our request to the SpinQuest machine.

Additional questions can be sent to Yongbin ([email protected]).