Contents

• Contents
• Setting Up Accounts and Environments
• Overview
  • The STAR Offline Computing Challenge
  • STAR Computing and Software Group Organization
  • RCF Computing Hardware and Environment
  • STAR Software Infrastructure Tools
    • General Description
    • STAF - Description
    • STAF - Analysis Service Packages
    • STAF - Data Structures or Tables
    • STAF - Physics Analysis Modules
    • STAF - Sorting Out The Many Names for STAF Tables
    • STAF - Primary and Foreign Keys
    • STAF - Architecture
    • Other Software Tools
  • STAR Simulations, Reconstruction and Calibration Software
  • Useful Offline Computing and Software Documents
  • Typical Steps in SAS Projects
• SL97b Software Tutorials