search

cernopendata / opendata.cern.ch

Source code for the CERN Open Data portal
http://opendata.cern.ch/
GNU General Public License v2.0
666 stars 148 forks source link

CMS: add instructions how to find the exact pythia version for MC #2511

Open katilp opened 5 years ago

katilp commented 5 years ago

Add instructions how to find the exact pythia version used in production of MC

scram project CMSSW CMSSW_version
cd CMSSW_version/src
cmsenv
scram tool info pythia8 
scram tool info pythia6

To do:

check if the relevant (old) versions are available -> OK, see below

katilp commented 5 years ago

E.g.: http://opendata.cern.ch/record/1389 -> SIM CMSSW version CMSSW_5_3_11_patch6

On OpenData VM:

cmsrel CMSSW_5_3_11_patch6
cd CMSSW_5_3_11_patch6/src
cmsenv
scram tool info pythia6
Tool info as configured in location /home/cms-opendata/CMSSW_5_3_11_patch6
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Name : pythia6
Version : 426-cms
++++++++++++++++++++
SCRAM_PROJECT=no
PYTHIA6_BASE=/cvmfs/cms.cern.ch/slc6_amd64_gcc472/external/pythia6/426-cms
LIB=pythia6 pythia6_dummy pythia6_pdfdummy
LIBDIR=/cvmfs/cms.cern.ch/slc6_amd64_gcc472/external/pythia6/426-cms/lib
USE=pythia6_headers f77compiler
katilp commented 1 year ago

@jmhogan Maybe this could be included in the documentation if not already done.