STAR@PDSF Help page

Last update: 26 June, 2008

IMPORTANT News: Use the dvio resource specification whenever your LSF jobs access a datavault (see the FAQ), or your jobs (and other peoples jobs) will run inefficiently!

STAR specific FAQ

General PDSF FAQ

Embedding data on disk

Job scheduler  instructions and data on distributed disks.

Instructions for running embedding simulations.

Current status of local (non-AFS) STAR software libraries at PDSF
         (from setenv STAR_PDSF_LINUX_SETUP use_local)

STAR working group membership for PDSF disk space

HSI interface to HPSS (archive.nersc.gov)

Storage Resource Units (SRU) usage of NERSC HPSS system.  Note that the STAR allocation is called the gc5 repository.  Some user accounts end up in the mp46 repository (general PDSF nuclear physics).

STAR-PDSF Hypernews Forum (mail to, archive)