You can use space on XROOTD file servers which is visible from atlas16,18 and ascinode (test cluster). Login to these computers and look at the directory:

/atlasfs/atlas/local/

You will see your name (likely). You can also have data directly deposited in a the same file system from a grid job by using the “–destSE=ANL-ATLAS-GRIDFTP1” for prun or pathena. It will appear in the directory “/atlasfs/atlas/dq2/user/<yourname>” . The subdirectory structure is detemined by the output dataset name. You'll have to grope around a bit to find where the output went under this directory (some of the “.”'s in the datset get transformed to “/”).

To access files using root via xrootd on the worker nodes [this is true on ascinode but is it on 16 and 18?] you can use “xprep”. Let's say you ran a grid job and your data is now available in the following area:

/atlasfs/atlas/dq2/user/<yourname>/user.<yourname>.xxx/yyy.root

You can prepare the files for use with root in the following way You run the following xprep command to register it (note that “/atlasfs” is not in the name):

xprep -s aschead01 /atlas/dq2/user/<yourname>/user.<yourname>.xxx/yyy.root

Instead of doing this file by file you may provide a list of files with the “-f” option.

In root you can open the file as “root:aschead01/atlas/dq2/user/<yourname>/user.<yourname>.xxx/yyy.root”.

To check that the files have been registered you can do the following command:

xrd aschead01 locatesingle /atlas/dq2/user/<yourname>/user.<yourname>.xxx/yyy.root