CMSSW @ FNAL Tutorial 26. June 2007

Introduction

• The CMSSW@FNAL tutorial is meant for the early beginner to learn about software and computing tools in CMS.
• The tutorial should give the user insight on how to use the CMS software framework CMSSW to carry out analysis tasks and use and develop reconstruction and other software components. The user should also learn how to use the various computing tools to process events in a parallel and distributed way.
• The day-long tutorial consists of an introductory part held as a talk and a hands-on part where the users follow a provided TWiki to learn about CMSSW. The hands-on part is interactive, participants will produce and compile code and can/should ask questions.
• The participants are required to have a valid FNAL computing account with login access to the cmsuaf/cmslpc.
• To participate in the hands-on part of the tutorial, the user is required to bring his own laptop and be able to login to the cmsuaf/cmslpc and open X windows. A limited number of public terminals is available for participants who cannot bring their own laptop.

Schedule

• [9:00 AM - 9:20 AM]: Introductory talk about basics of the FNAL facilities (Patrick Gartung, WH11 Sunrise) CMSSW_Tutorial_UAF_jun07.ppt.
• [9:20 AM - 9:40 AM]: Introductory talk about basics of reconstruction in CMSSW from the physics perspective (Eric James, WH11 Sunrise) CMS101d_ej.pdf.
• [9:40 AM - 10:40 AM]: Introductory talk about CMSSW software basics (Oliver Gutsche, WH11 Sunrise) Link to the Tutorial.
• [10:40 AM - 11:00 AM]: Setup of laptops and public terminals in the common space of the LPC on the 11th floor in Wilson Hall at FNAL.
• [11:00 AM - 12:30 PM]: Hands-on session working through the components of CMSSW and running small interactive jobs.
• [12:30 PM - 1:30 PM]: Lunch break.
• [1:30 PM - 3:00 PM]: Continue first hands-on session and hands-on session about submitting jobs to the local batch farm.
• [3:00 PM - 3:30 PM]: Optional coffee break
• [3:30 PM - 5:00 PM]: Continue second hands-on session.

Prerequisites / Requirements

All participants are advised to start early with the registration processes as the individual processes can take some time (order of days) to be processed.

• UAF/LPC account at Fermilab:: Please follow http://www.uscms.org/SoftwareComputing/UserComputing/GetAccountFermilab.html
• Own laptop able to login to CMSUAF/CMSLPC at FNAL and open X windows:: Please follow http://www.uscms.org/SoftwareComputing/UserComputing/ConnectUAF.html

Registration

Please send a mail to gutsche AT fnal.gov to register in this tutorial.

List of Participants

• A list of registered participants is available here.

Public terminals

• 1 of 8 public terminals are still available.

Tutorial

• Link to the Tutorial