Getting Started

Steps to getting started using the Physics Farm system at Jefferson Lab are listed below:

1. Obtain Farm/ifarm access.  Note that you will require a 2-factor authentication token to login to the Farm and QCD nodes.
2. Generate a SciComp user certificate for your account if you wish to interact with the JLab tape system and other infrastructure.
3. Please join the email list jlab-scicomp-briefs@ jlab.org to get email about the status and updates of resources. This is highly recommended.
4. Considerable information about the status of the computing resources is available at the SciComp Portal: scicomp.jlab.org/scicomp/.  On the entry page you can find information about the status of the various systems, as well as important announcements about new capabilities, current problems or planned outages.  From the menu on the left you can get more detailed information about status and utilization, including reports by user or project for any arbitrary time interval.

5. For all other account questions please contact your Hall Compute Coordinator, the Physics Computing Coordinator Brad Sawatzky, or the Computer Center Help Desk

6. New users of Farm resources (ifarm, farm, swif2, slurm, etc) are also encouraged to review the following resources (in addition to the documentation at the bottom of this page).

   • Basics of Farm Computing (Tips & Tricks)
   • SWIF2 Farm Submission Example
   • JLab Knowledge Base Search
   • See also: data.jlab.org