The McM and pMp Tutorial

Wednesday 18 Mar 2020, 14:00 → 18:05 Europe/Zurich

40/R-A10 (CERN)

It will explain the Monte Carlo (MC) production in the CMS collaboration by emphasizing on the two main tools:  Monte Carlo request Management (McM) and Production Monitoring Platform (pMp). Please register to confirm your participation.

This tutorial will target the following areas mainly:

• MC production and monitoring in computing
• Details about McM, pMp and DAS
• Common problems in MC production and solutions
• Expert level details in MC Production
  • Requests, tickets, flows, campaigns, chained campaigns
  • Brief overview about grid pack generation, datacards
• Scripting in McM
• Exercises
   

14:00 → 14:10 Introduction

Speakers: Chayanit Asawatangtrakuldee (Chulalongkorn University (TH)), Paolo Gunnellini (University of Hamburg), Wajid Ali Khan (National Centre for Physics (PK))

introduction.pdf

14:10 → 15:10 McM, pMp and other Monitoring tools for Analyzers

40m talk + 20m for questions and exercises description

• Need of MC production management
• MC Production overview
• Details about McM, pMp and DAS
• Tools to monitor production of samples
• Links between McM/pMp and DAS
• Introduction to datatiers and event content, e.g. MiniAOD, nanoAOD
• Dataset name's terminology
• Finding datasets in DAS
• Finding cmsdrivers, global tags, production configuration files, gridpacks, cross section and more production details of samples
• HNs, egroups, meetings, twikis related to MC production
• Opportunities in MC production team
• Exercises

Speaker: Jordan Martins (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

MccM_Tutorial_March_2020.pdf

15:10 → 16:00 McM for Monte Carlo Contacts

40m talk + 10m for questions and exercises description

• Technical and management overview of MC production
• Instructions for GEN contacts
• Roles and responsibilities
• Details about requests, tickets, flows, campaigns, chained campaigns
• Brief overview about gridpack generation
• New validation methods in McM
• Dataset name's terminology and your role
• Datasets in DAS
• Monitoring of requests in McM and computing
• Common problems in MC production and solutions
• Exercises

Speaker: Anirban Saha (Florida State University (US))

March_2020_Tutorial_GEN_Contact.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 16:50 Revisiting McM and pMp for MC Contacts

Speakers: Chayanit Asawatangtrakuldee (Chulalongkorn University (TH)), Paolo Gunnellini (University of Hamburg), Wajid Ali Khan (National Centre for Physics (PK))

16:50 → 17:40 McM Scripting

Suggestions to GEN contacts to create and manage McM requests and tickets by using scripts.

Speaker: Justinas Rumsevicius (Vilnius University (LT))

McM Scripting 2020 03 18.pdf

17:40 → 18:00 Final remarks, questions, and discussion

For GEN contacts and CMS analysts