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Step 1: General setup and preparing the test directories

On this page we will describe the basic setup needed to set up the CMS software environment on the UAF.

First, setup your environment as previously discussed. Before we get started using the UAF to produce some events we want to create an area in pnfs where we permanently want to store some of the results.

mkdir /pnfs/cms/WAX/2/<your_user_name>
mkdir /pnfs/cms/WAX/2/<your_user_name>/test


cd /storage/data/<your_user_name>

setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anonymous@cdcvs.fnal.gov:/cvs/lpc
cvs login

Use password: lpc

cvs co Tutorials/jetmet
cd Tutorials/jetmet
mkdir top

A setup script to set up the environment is provided here just do:

source .cshrc

We can use the setup.pl script to create scripts and job description files for us. The use of this scripts will be explained on the following pages.

setup.pl $PWD/top <your_user_name>@fnal.gov /pnfs/cms/WAX/2/<your_user_name>/test dccp

will create some files in the scripts area that we will use later on.
Note: If you wish to use a disk area, you should use cp for the copycommand.

cd top
source setup_tut.csh

will set up some useful environmental variables which will make it easier to navigate:

$TOP : Top of your tutorial area
$SCRIPTS : Area where most of the scripts and job description files are located
$Analysis : This is the area where we will analyse Root files etc.
$PNFS_PATH : Area in the pnfs files system where we store the final results.

Now we are set up and ready to go!

Continue to next step


  1. General setup
  2. Event generation on the farm with CMKIN (Pythia), Analysis of the generator level output
  3. Simulate the events with OSCAR
  4. Digitize with ORCA
  5. Run a small ntuple maker ( from Stephan's ORCA tutorial) looking at Calorimeter quantities
  6. Run the JetMet ntuple maker and make some plots
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