Product Distribution Platform Registration Form

Your Name:

Your email address: (for communciations regarding your access to the product distribution server)

Affiliation with Fermilab: (ID number for visitors or employees, or description of affiliation otherwise)
You must have a legitimate affiliation with Fermilab, or your registration will not be approved.

Location: (campus, city and country of the node(s) you are registering)

Nodename(s): (register each host that needs access. Specify the fully qualified internet node name)

The Fermilab Product Distribution Platform is the ftp/upd server for software packages that Fermilab makes available to our employees, visitors, and collaborators. In general, these are utilities that are written (and available) elsewhere, which have been repackaged for use in the Fermi User Environment (FUE). You must be on a registered node in order to obtain these products, and you must be affiliated with Fermilab in order for your registration to be approved. (NOTE: all machines in the fnal.gov domain are automatically registered; you only need to fill out this form if you are registering an off-site node).

Most of the locally-developed software packages that we support (and which are generally not available elsewhere) are also available through the public Fermitools program. You do not need to register in order to obtain these software tools.

The Computing Division supports two methods of obtaining products from the distribution server. The first method (which is the only supported method for obtaining Fermitools products) is via anonymous ftp to ftp.fnal.gov. The publicly-available products are under the /pub directory; the other packages are found under the /products directory. Most products are distributed in three separate pieces: the product tarfile, the product ups directory tarfile, and the product table file. For a description of how to obtain and unwind these three pieces, see http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/ups/FTPinstructions/.

For registered machines, the preferred method of obtaining Fermilab products is via upd (the UPS Product Distribution utility). UPD automates the steps needed to copy, unwind and install UPS products on your local system. Familiarization with ups and upd is essential; therefore we recommend that you read the documentation available at http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/ups/ including "UPS and UPD v4 Reference Manual".