[Rivet] Running Rivet on the grid

[Doug Gingrich]

Hi James,

I got your grid script to work for a very simple rivet example.

Cheers,
Doug
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I attach a bash script that will run Rivet on the grid.  I had a  
> little trouble with 64 Vs 32 bit libraries (not knowing what the node  
> is going to be), which I think are solved, but maybe we will run into  
> other problems with more use.  Once on the node the script downloads a  
> couple of tarballs of libs from my web space at UCL (90 MB).
> 
> You need to set up your grid environment in the usual way (for ATLAS  
> users this is 'source /afs/cern.ch/project/gd/LCG-share/current/etc/ 
> profile.d/grid_env.sh') and then do
> 
> 	./RivetGrid -vo <MY_VO> -g Herwig:6510 -n 1000 - p IPROC=1500 etc...
> 
> The only extra argument is the grid VO <MY_VO> (atlas, cedar,  
> etc...).  At the moment it does not send any param files to the grid,  
> so you can only change the generator settings from the command line.
> 
> I guess if we can perfect this it may be useful for users who quickly  
> want to get going with Rivet without needing to install all the usual  
> packages (and it would've been bloody useful during the Debrecen  
> tutorial, if I'd thought of it!)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> James



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