Workflows

Workflow for jobs

• Grids - overview of the computing farms and job submission
• HPC - high performance computing resources
  • Docker software containers for submitting to special farms
• production simulation workflow - how to run simulation, concatenate and upload the files
• MARS and G4Beamline workflow - these are not in the art framework
• Job planning - considerations of project CPU, disk, memory and file size
• Prestage - make sure files have been retrieved off tape and are ready to use
• GenerateFcl - generate fcl for simulation jobs
• gridexport - export a build of Offline or a satellite release for use on the grid
• SubmitJobs - submit, monitor and recover jobs in the workflow
• Concatenate - merging root and art files
• Upload - upload files to tape
• mu2egrid - reference for scripts in workflows
• ErrorRecovery - how to recover from common errors
• Validation - check how code is performing
• Datasets - production datasets

Data Handling

• dCache - the large aggregated data disk system
• enstore - the mass storage tape system
• Data transfer - how to move larger datasets, necessary for grid jobs
• File names - how to name files for upload or for production
• File families - the logical grouping of data on tapes
• SAM - file metadata and data handling management system
  • SAM metadata - the metadata stored for each file
  • SAM expert - some notes for the future, not of general interest
• File tools - tools for manipulating large file datasets and metadata
• FTS Upload - deprecated method to upload by the FTS area

Operations

• operations links
• Mu2epro account