Commissioning the CDF Offline Software

Abstract

CDF II is one of the two large collider experiments at Fermilab's Tevatron. Over the past two years we have commissioned the offline computing system. A task that has involved bringing up hundreds of computers and millions of lines of C++ software. This paper reports on this experience, concentrating on the software aspects of the project. We will highlight some of the successes as well as describe some of the work still to do.