The McM and pMp Tutorial

Tuesday 9 Apr 2019, 09:30 → 13:00 Europe/Zurich

354/1-019 (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 has following additions as compared to the previous tutorials:

• More details about the MC production and monitoring in computing
• Introduction to datatiers and event content 
• Explanation about current/future developments, e.g. updates on validation procedures, X-section database
• Common problems in MC production and solutions
• The cost of MC production, i.e. computing resources, human resources and money
• The brief overview of gridpack generation
• Updated exercises
   

09:30 → 09:40 Welcome and introduction

Speakers: Paolo Gunnellini (University of Hamburg), Patricia Rebello Teles (UERJ - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR)), Zhen Hu (Tsinghua University (CN))

McMtutorial-3.pdf

09:40 → 10:20 Tutorial for CMS analysts

30m talk + 10m 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
• Cross section database
• 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: Wajid Ali Khan (National Centre for Physics (PK))

mccmTutorial.pdf

10:20 → 11:00 Tutorial for GEN contacts

30m 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
• Cross section database
• 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))

April_2019_Tutorial_GEN_Contact.pdf

11:00 → 11:20 Break

11:20 → 11:45 GEN request script and GEN-relevant information

Speakers: Efe Yazgan (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)), Qiang Li (Peking University (CN))

2019-04-09-tutorial.pdf

11:45 → 11:55 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_tutorial_2019_04_09.pdf

11:55 → 12:20 pMp

Suggestions to GEN contacts to use Production Monitoring Platform (pMp) to monitor McM requests/flows/campaigns

Speaker: Justinas Rumsevicius (Vilnius University (LT))

pMp_tutorial_2019_04_09.pdf

12:20 → 12:45 MC production and Monitoring in Computing

• Technical overview of the MC production from computing's perspective
• All tools involved and their mutual connection
• Monitoring tips
• Critical parameters and their role in the MC production

Speaker: Sharad Agarwal (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

P&R CompOps monitoring tutorial

12:45 → 13:00 Final remarks, questions, and discussion

For GEN contacts and CMS analysts