Notes on the 11 12 August 2009 LIGO Workshop at Notre Dame General Overview * The users liked the system, but also struggled in some places. Big Issues ...
June 2016: This page appears to be substantially out of date. TLA/Bluestone, the tla/ directory structure, Grid computing, and links to spy hill.net seem to no lo...
Bluestone Update Procedure This page describes the proceedure to follow to release ("roll out") a new revision of the Bluestone software. It also describes how ...
Building Bluestone from Source code Bluestone itself is a web interface to GDS and DMTROOT, so what you need to build from source code are ROOT and GDS. Here is a...
SSL Certificates on ELabs VMs We maintain an SSL certificate for the e Labs website www.i2u2.org on i2u2 prod. Since we don't exchange sensitive data with our us...
CIMA CIMA is the CMS Instrument for Masterclass Analysis, a special piece of PHP software used for CMS Masterclasses. It's not part of the CMS e Lab, but it is w...
Meeting Report 21 October, 2016 Present: Joel, Marge, Ken, Sudha, Jeremy, Shane Fundamental Functions * Organize QuarkNet Centers, provide them a platform for...
Exploration Book Links Links to access the Flux Study Exploration Books stored in the QuarkNet GitHub repo https://github.com/QuarkNet HEP/CosmicExplorationBooks ...
Grid Interface API In the absence of any written documentation on how to run tasks on The Grid, I will write here how I think it ought to work and we can then di...
SSL Certificates on ELabs VMs We maintain an SSL certificate for the e Labs website www.i2u2.org on i2u2 prod. Since we don't exchange sensitive data with our us...
Kerberos There are three basic steps to configuring Kerberos: 1. Install Kerberos so that you can authenticate using it. If in doubt, look for the program or pac...
LIGO Data for ELabs served via the web The Apache web server "httpd" is used to serve the data via a web URL of the form http://servername.caltech.edu/data/frames...
LIGO Documentation There is a need for a wide variety of different kinds of documentation for the LIGO e Lab(s). We cannot hope to create all this ourselves, s...
LIGO e Lab Notes and Links The LIGO experiment monitors seismic activity at its observatory sites in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA in order to account for this b...
Tomcat Local Installation Tomcat home page Tomcat wiki Tomcat is an Apache product similar to Apache Server except that it specializes in serving JSP files, which...
Local Setup If you're setting up a local copy of the website for the first time, you're possibly new to QuarkNet. Check out the New Members Guide if you haven't a...
Logbook/Discussion * Motivation: scientists use logbooks to record their activities and observations, and our students can too, and learn how it's done. A logboo...
MediaWiki is the name of the software which is used to run the Wikipedia and it's "sister" sites, which collectively are called "wikimedia" (I find these cute nam...
Present: Eric Myers, Tibi, Liz and Nick, Tom Jordan LIGO Analysis and the Grid Eric and Tibi talked off line last week, which was very useful. Eric has added a ...
Meeting Notes for 18 July 2007 Present: Marge, Liz, Eric, Tom L., Mike W. Mihael, Tibi Absent: Tom J., Bob Wiki/Forum Issue The QuarkNet Fellows (there are app...
Meeting Notes for 29 August 2007 Present: Liz, Eric, Mihael, Bob, Mike W., Tom L., Tom J. Issues with www11 Bob noticed that www11 was not working properly. (e...
Meeting Notes for 21 November 2007 Present: Liz, , Mihael, TomJ, Bob, Eric, Mike Absent: TomL, Standing up the New Data Server Mihael announced Rick in Syste...
Meeting Notes for 5 December 2007 Present: Eric, Mihael, Bob, Liz, Tom L. , Dan K., K. Whelan(at end) Absent: Mike W. Randy, Joao, Tom J. New Data Server Unexpec...
Meeting Notes for 12 December 2007 Present: Eric, Mihael, Liz Absent: Bob, Mike W. Randy, Tom L. , Dan K., K. Whelan Joao, and Tom J. (Tom J., Kris and Bob at ...
Meeting Notes for 19 December 2007 Present: Eric, Mihael, Liz, Tom L., Tom J. Absent: Bob, Mike W. Randy, Dan K., K. Whelan, Joao New data server Mihael has th...
Meeting Notes for 23 January 2008 Present: Tom L., Liz, Mihael, Eric; Absemt: Dan K, Mike W., Randy., Kris, Joao, Tom J. Bob, LIGO wiki incident Eric reported o...
Meeting Notes for 27 February 2008 Present: Liz, Mihael, Tom L., Tom J.; Absemt: Eric, Dan K, Mike W., Randy., Kris, Joao, Bob Supporting Workshops on Saturday ...
Meeting Notes for 19 March 2008 Present: Liz, Tom L., Bob, Eric (showed up late) Absent: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Mihael, Tom J., Joao Release of Refactored...
Meeting Notes for 26 March 2008 Present: Liz, Tom J., Mihael, Eric (showed up late, after his class) Absemt: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Tom L., Joao, Bob, Mar...
Meeting Notes for 2 April 2008 Present: Eric, Bob, Tom L., Tom J., Mihael, Liz; Absemt: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Joao Supercomputing K12 education workshop...
Meeting Notes for 23 April 2008 Present: Bob, Tom L., Tom J., Mihael, Liz, Eric, Marge; Absent: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Joao Status of i2u2 grant Marge gav...
Meeting Notes for 30 April 2008 Present: Bob, Tom J., Tom L., Mihael, Liz, Eric; Absent: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Joao Handling errors Mihael seems to be g...
Meeting Notes for 18 June 2008 Present: Bob, Tom L., Mihael, Liz, Eric Absent: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Joao, Tom J. Tom Loughran's Report: Need for Telecon...
Meeting Notes for 16 July 2008 Present: Mihael, Eric, Tom L. Liz Absent: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Joao, Tom J., Bob Modes of working #8211; SVN We discussed...
Meeting Notes for 23 July 2008 Present: Mihael, Eric, Tom L. Liz Absent: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Joao, Tom J., Bob IT job We discussed strategies for findin...
Meeting Notes for 30 July 2008 Present: Tom L, Mihael, Eric, Liz Absent: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Joao, Tom J., Bob Progress on Action Items from Last Week: ...
Meeting Notes for 20 August 2008 Present: Mihael, Eric, Liz, Tom J, Tom L., and Alan Absent: Dan K, Mike W., Randy, Kris, Joao, Bob Telephone Number for Telecon ...
Meeting Notes for 29 October 2008 Present: Dan, Eric, Liz, Tom L.,Tom J. Bob Report on CMS Java Applet Interface What follows is Dan K's description via e mail...
Meeting Notes for 11 February 2008 Present: Marge, Bob, Phong, Liz, TomL, TomJ, Eric Absent: Mihael Action Items * Liz gets in touch with Dave to see if he'l...
Meeting Notes for 13 May 2009 Present: Liz, Phong, Eric, Mihael, TomL Absent: Marge, TomJ, Bob (QuarkNet Meeting) Notes * Mihael has to go back to the homelan...
Meeting Notes for 16 Mar 2011 Present: Liz, Phong, TomL, Bob, Marge Absent: TomJ, TomM Common * Working on furlough mitigation strategy * Store multiple e...
Meeting Notes for 8 May Present: Phong, Liz, Bob, Edit General * Schedule stress test on 18 for this week. * We need to follow up with systems about data3....
Meeting Notes for 6 Nov Present: Liz, Bob, TomJ, Edit All e Labs * Allow users to reset password feedback: * Retrieve username: provide all usernames...
Meeting Notes for 30 Oct Present: Ken, Bob, TomJ, Edit General * Data4: data2 was replaced yesterday by data4 with the help of Dan Olson from systems at Argon...
Meeting Notes for 30 Oct Present: Ken, Bob, TomJ, Edit General * Data4: data2 was replaced yesterday by data4 with the help of Dan Olson from systems at Argon...
Meeting Notes for 30 Oct Present: Ken, Bob, TomJ, Edit General * Data4: data2 was replaced yesterday by data4 with the help of Dan Olson from systems at Argon...
Meeting Notes for 4 Jun Present: Marge, Bob, Liz, TomJ, Edit Cosmic * Bug 625: Tom is working with this issue and still testing. * EQUIP (old Purdue Java) ...
Meeting Notes for 16 Jul Present: Liz, Ken, Dale, Edit CMS * New Interface for CMS: * Ken described what needs to be updated in order to roll this out ...
Meeting Notes for 11 Feb Present: Bob, TomJ, Liz, Ken, Sudha, Edit Cosmic * Blessing: * Tom J will complete the process of reviewing the files that are...
Meeting Notes for 17 February Present: Joel, Liz, Mark, Ken, Sudha, Tom, Edit LIGO * We should fix the notifications/news box for LIGO to be like Cosmic, whic...
Meeting Notes for 18 May Present: Joel, Liz, Sudha, Mark Cosmic Ray * Mark reports some feedback through the Help Desk about the Time of Flight feature * S...
Meeting Notes for 20 July Present: Joel, Liz, Mark, Sudha, Tom, Marge Planning meeting July 22 23 One thing we will want to provide in the proposal is justificat...
Meeting Notes for 24 August Present: Joel, Liz, Mark, Sudha, Marge LIGO * The new outreach coordinator (replacing Dale) should be in place by the end of Augus...
Meeting Notes for 18 January Present: Liz, Joel, Sudha, Marge, Mark, Ken, Tom, Kevin M Drupal * Kevin shared XM's sample site with the new theme concept via t...
Meeting Notes for 5 April Present: Sudha, Mark, Marge, Ken, Liz, Joel, Tom Drupal * Kevin couldn't join but will provide updates to BaseCamp * Marge has su...
Meeting Notes for 21 June Present: Mark, Sudha, Joel, Liz, Marge, Ken Drupal * Kevin and Mitch discussed and resolved the added cost of delaying the rollout u...
Meeting Notes for 28 June Present: Sudha, Joel Drupal * Xeno Media scheduled to migrate files this week, haven't finished as of meeting time * Sudha upload...
Meeting Notes for 12 July Present: Senem, Sudha, Joel, Liz, Mark Drupal Changes to the site are now mostly content tweaks and administrative adjustments. Sudha ...
Meeting Notes for 5 July Present: Sudha, Joel, Tom, Mark Drupal Xeno Media migrated files to the new site. Sudha reports that previously missing files are now p...
Meeting Notes for 26 July Present: Sudha, Mark, Joel, Liz, Senem Drupal * Sudha is changing grey backgrounds to transparent on several pages. Senem recommend...
Meeting Notes for 9 August Present: Sudha, Joel, Liz, Senem, Marge Drupal * Senem explains that the best way to change hardcoded quarknet.i2u2.org/... links t...
Meeting Notes for 30 August Present: Sudha, Joel, Mark, Ken, Shane Drupal * Some discussion of scheduling the transition. Decided on Mon, Sept 11 with notice...
Meeting Notes for 4 October Present: Sudha, Senem, Mark, Tom, Joel, Adam, Shane, Ken Drupal * Senem has arranged so that Sudha can deploy directly to producti...
Meeting Notes for 22 November Present: Joel, Ken, Shane, Mark, Tom, Liz, Adam CMS * Tom found that the source of the display bug when switching between views ...
Neutrino Development This is a working topic for developing a Masterclass and (eventually) ELabs e Lab based on neutrino physics as a collaboration between QuarkN...
Password/Username Retrieval Error On Feb 3 Rebecca J reported that the username and password retrieval function is not working. From the page http://i2u2 dev.crc....
Tell Others: Posters This page is for outlining considerations for the "Tell Others" milestone. We'll get it started just by listing bullet points, then flesh in...
QuarkNet Forums At the end of October, 2008, Marge asked Eric to set up a site to host forums and wikis for QuarkNet, independent of the ELabs forums and wikis. ...
RSS overview * RSS is a Web content syndication format. The name is an acronym for "Really Simple Syndication", though there are actually 3 different versions...
Study Guide References This diagram shows what happens when a user clicks on a milestone in the e Lab flow diagram. It opens the pop up references. Each pop up...
Meeting Notes for Next Telecon Agenda for Apr 30, 2025 quarknet.org * Current page on i2u2 quarknet * Xeno Media Basecamp page for issues * Should we a...
Upload Testing Introduction Uploading over HTTP is fraught with peril. The protocol is simply not designed to do it, even if it is the most convenient way for u...
Using Apache You will need to be able to use Apache on both your local machine and on the VMs. It's likely that these two environments will be different, since th...
Building Software from Source Code Our servers now run a fairly up to date version of Ubuntu Linux, which includes most of the software we need. We prefer to use ...
QuarkNet Developers' Wiki This is the Developers' Notebook for the NSF funded QuarkNet e Labs education project. The e Labs are a science education project where...
ELabs Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the ELabs web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can be overwri...
Web Server Configuration (this page is still incomplete, but better than nothing) We are using Apache's httpd web server, version 2.210, on all of our servers. I...
ELabs Workshop Schedule This calendar is hosted by Google Calendars. Eric, TomL, Liz, and TomJ currently have permission to edit the calendar or alter sha...