Alpine without a password How to use SSH and Alpine so that you don't have to type in a password when you start your Alpine session. Alpine has the ability to con...
Details of running condor at Nevis Warning signs If your condor script or program does any of the following, it's a warning sign that your job might crash (or wo...
How to change your password on the Nevis Linux Cluster The primary audience of this page are those who don't login to the Nevis Linux cluster directly, bu...
Conda Conda is a popular package management system. Here are some tips and tricks for using that system on the Nevis particle physics systems. Before you go to c...
Condor Basics This page describes some of the basics for setting up jobs on the particle physics computer cluster at Nevis. For a quick introduction to condor at...
Configuring alpine Alpine is a text only screen based mail program. (The previous version was called pine. This version is still present on some older systems at ...
Environment modules on the Nevis particle physics Linux cluster Environment modules are a way of setting up a Linux shell environment. On the cluster, we ...
LArLite event display (evd) at Nevis To set up the event display using the bash shell (the only one supported), use the following command: source /nevis/amsterdam...
Running GENIE at Nevis To run the GENIE Neutrino Monte Carlo at Nevis, you can take one of two approaches: * Use a software suite (GENIE and its external packa...
Glossary Some TLAs and definitions to help you get started. (What's a "TLA"? Look it up below.) The terms are not in alphabetical order; they are roughly in ord...
Hidden directories and package management If you use either conda or pip to manage software packages, or work with keras,you may have encountered something st...
Jupyter notebook server at Nevis Jupyter (formerly IPython) has become a popular tool for interactive physics analysis. Here are some examples of what you can do ...
Initial laptop setup for the Nevis particle physics Linux cluster This page is intended for those students, guests, and researchers connecting to Nevis for the fi...
Jupyter/ROOT Containers Users of the Nevis particle physics Linux cluster have access to a notebook server that lets them execute Python and ROOT C scripts o...
LArSoft at Nevis This documents how to use the LArSoft and MicroBooNE software as managed by mrb git. If you are looking for older LArSoft versions managed by SRT...
LArSoft at Nevis The Nevis copy of the LArSoft installation is currently in /a/share/westside/seligman/microboone/LArSoft. As of 21 Jan 2014, the following Fermil...
Nevis Linux Cluster Overview The Nevis Linux Cluster may seem a bit confusing at first. It's actually several smaller clusters linked together. Each working gro...
Nevis Linux Cluster FAQ The answers to many Frequently Asked Questions about the Nevis Linux cluster. It covers subjects not addressed by the other Linux cluste...
Basic diagnostics for the high availability cluster Archived 20 Sep 2013: The high availability cluster has been set aside in favor of a more traditional single b...
Nevis Local Software These are commands developed or enhanced at Nevis for our own use. (Other sites, such as Fermilab, have defined their own versions of these c...
Nevis Software Guide In addition to the notes below and in linked web pages, you should also look at the latest nevis linux announcements for descriptions of new ...
Why the shift from module load to conda? I know the shift from module load root to conda activate /usr/nevis/conda/root can be annoying. These are the reasons why...
Setting up X11 and OpenGL on your laptop/desktop X11 X11 is the graphics display protocol used by UNIX systems. If you're logging into one of the Nevis systems w...