User's Area

Here you will find all the information on how to submit jobs with the STAR scheduler. You are encouraged to give feedback on this documentation via the scheduler Hypernews Forum.

The current version deployed at BNL is 1.8.9, released on August 28, 2006. To learn what's new in this release, consult the change log .

Learning Resources

The manual for the user is divided into 4 chapters:

• Introduction
• An example
• XML job description specifications
• XML job schema description
• Cut and paste examples

Also available:

• Command line options
• Full list of policies and dispatchers available
• FAQ
• Tutorial (presented at the STAR Collaboration meeting February 2003): PPT - HTML

For additional help, you can use the mailing list.