My Research Journal

0_8_0 Revisited

So the scramv1 problems were fixed - we needed to source one file to be configured correctly. I don't know if this would affect the farmout jobs as well. I'm testing it now.

Unfortunately the files I produced yesterday are no good. My fears of the small file size proved true. They seem to contain only gene events. Although the rest of the branches are there, I couldn't see any reco SClusters or jets :(

Back to square 1(?)...

Update: We're one step further! (hopefully the last) After looking at the problem with Ajit and Dan, the problem was pinpointed at these lines of the cfg file:

# include "SimGeneral/HepPDTESSource/data/pdt.cfi"
es_source = HepPDTESSource {
string pdtFileName = "/afs/cern.ch/cms/external/lcg/external/HepPDT/2.02.02/slc3_ia32_gcc323/data/PDG_mass_width_2004.mc"
}

It looks that in pre2 the mentioned cfi file was exactly like the code I have above! However, in 0_8_0 final, there is no path - only the filename. Obviously something has changed in the source code; that's why problems appeared.

In the 2 events I tested it though I didn't see any superclusters in the data... hmmm....maybe it's the Analyzer it needs to be changed now(?)

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btw, I looked up that __PROD thing, but apparently it shouldn't worry us at all. From this note on branch names:

In some cases, a branch name may be shortened, according to the following rules, in order:

1. If the process name is PROD, the "_PROD" is replaced by an empty string.


2. If the resulting branch name ends in __. (two underscores and a period), the two underscores are removed.