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User Documents

Sam Command Syntax and Usage - a complete list of the syntax and requirements of each and every SAM command. (New!)
Quick Start Guide
SAM Triage page - a troubleshooting guide to common SAM problems
Sam Database Entity Diagrams - The Story Behind the Model

Projects: SAM File retrieval framework

• Defining SAM Projects
• Running analysis Projects

Using SAM within D0 Framework
Using SAM within ROOT(New!)

Heidi's tutorials on D0 software (includes a chapter on SAM usage)
Dzero policy for usersstoring files into SAM
Details for storing user files into SAM
Dzero Physics Group Representatives for file storing
Storing processed files with SAM (mostly obsolete)
Importing Data from Remote Sites into the SAM System
Monte Carlo Import Specification (obsolete)
Using the SAM Monitor Console (obsolete)
User Tips for Running SAM  - Thanks to Maria Roco for the original version (unsupported).

Station Administrator Documents

 
Updated, April 2002! Complete SAM Installation and Configuration Instructions for remote stations.
Station Installation and Setup Guide
Complete sam_bootstrap Documentation
Configuring and using the SAM Station
Examples of Group Administration of a Station Cache
Using alternative Batch System at the Station
Configuring and using the FSS
SAM Admin Command Documentation
SAM Shift Checklist (helpful to station admins as well)
Autodestination description and admin tools.
Gridftp and SAM: Performance Measurements for DZero and CDF (New!)

Requirements

Flows and Controls in the Seasons of SAM, December 4, 1997with charts for Season II and Season IV
The original SAM requirements doc

Architecture

Sequential File Access Model Evaluation and Conceptual Design - October 13, 1997
Slide showing the architecture
Slide showing data handling
Slide showing data access modes

Design

Principal:

• Enstore - SAM Requirements on and Interface with
• Slide showing software components

The Data Model: our Database Schema and stories:

• Sam Database Entity Diagrams - The Story Behind the Model
• Sam Database Entity Diagrams - The Whole Model on One Page
• Sam Database Entity Diagrams - All Available Views of the Models
• Sam Database Schema Modification Notes
• Introduction to SAM DbServer Rewrite: (November 2003) an overview of the new toolkit and components. (or power point version)
• SamApi, DbCorbaClient design: (December 2002) how clients can use the SAM Db scheme. (or power point version)

Resource Management:

• Initial Station Master -- focusing on disk cache management: a story with pictures!
• Station Design Details -- links to implementation details for the above Station Design, including IDL and Database table layouts.

Comprehensive resource management, controlling MSS bandwidth and integration with the Batch System:

• Primary Goals as derived from the Requirements
• Model and Architecture
• Goals of the Station Master - Batch system integration module
• Generic Fair Share Scheduling Using Priority-Based Queuing

Integration with the D0 framework:

• The sam_manager package

Dataset Editor: How Datasets are defined:

• Web Enabled Dataset Editor Tool - with links directly to user documentation.
• Grammar for Constructing new Dataset Dimension/Constraint Clauses
• Early Dataset Editor GUI Prototype
• Early Dataset Definition Design Document

SAM SBIR Documents: Augmenting the SAM Schema

• SAM SBIR Data Model

Monitoring tools:

• sam_admin
• sam_info_server
• SAM Monitoring and Information Service

Miscellaneous:

• SAM data files as created by processes and written to SAM using the File Store Server

Primeval documents:

• Application Programming Interfaces of SAM software components
• User Jobs and their interaction with Sam

For complete and most uptodate history of design work details, see The Sam Design mailing list archive

Configuration

The Comark PCs - installation notes and problems
Package Standards for package maintainers
Sam source code cutting directions
Other misc. docs

Plans/Task Descriptions

Draft of design plan to delete files from Sam
Large database testing plan
Misweb Pages Project Specification
sam_admin and sam_info_server to do list
See also Tasklists and WBS
--- also see also Talks and Papers

Glossary

Glossary of terms 7/1/98