Belle II at the SCDF¶

The SCDF hosts the Belle II Analysis Facility at BNL, plus infrastructure services supporting the experiment, including the Conditions Database (CDB) and Data Distribution Management (DDM) systems.

Analysis Facility¶

User guide for running Belle II analysis on SCDF resources.

• Overview — Prerequisites and quick start
• Getting a BNL Account — Account request steps
• SSH Interactive Nodes — Command-line access
• NoMachine NX — Graphical desktop sessions
• JupyterHub — Web-based notebooks
• Storage — Scratch and dCache space
• HTCondor Batch Jobs — Scaling with b2af-submit
• B2Luigi — Workflow management

Services¶

• Conditions Database (CDB) — Overview of the Belle II CDB at BNL
• CDB Backup Policy — Backup and retention policy
• DDM Information — Data Distribution Management details