[Halld-offline] proposal for data challenge details

[Paul Mattione]

Does anyone know how to set the run number for data generated by bggen?  

 - Paul

On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Mark M. Ito wrote:

> We discussed some details of the data challenge configuration at the 
> last meeting. See
> 
> 
> https://halldweb1.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Data_Challenge_Meeting,_November_19,_2012#Data_Challenge_Configuration 
> 
> 
> We agreed that I would send out a proposal for some of the specific 
> choices. Here they are including the choices we made at the meeting.
> 
> = 1. run numbers =
> 
> All runs will be run 9000.
> 
> = 2. random number seeds =
> 
> The trick here is to insure that the we do not repeat any random 
> sequences in any of the jobs across all sites. The proposal is
> 
> a) Use the file number to seed bggen (See definition of file number below.)
> b) Do not explicitly seed hdgeant.
> c) Do not explicity seed mcsmear.
> 
> = 3. file naming convention =
> 
> a) for the rest format data: rest_<filenumber>.hddm
> b) for the monitoring histograms: hdroot_<filenumber>.root
> 
> where <filenumber> is an incrementing six digit integer, padded on the 
> left with zeros, with an initial value specific to the site:
> 
> grid: 000001
> cmu: 100001
> jlab: 200001
> 
> Jobs and filenumbers are in one-to-one correspondence.
> 
> = 4. events per file =
> 
> 200,000
> 
> chosen to take about one day at JLab
> 
> = 5. CKOV in control.in =
> 
> CKOV should not appear in control.in.
> 
> -- 
> Mark M. Ito
> Jefferson Lab
> marki at jlab.org
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