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

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