Introduction

This document aims to join useful technical information for MC contacts and MC requests managers working in PdmV

This page tries to address all necessary information for analyzers, Monte Carlo contacts and request manager about general Monte Carlo production and samples.

Here below you might find useful links to the different pages of the documentation:

If you look for general information about Monte Carlo production in CMS, please visit this page: Introduction.

If you are a CMS user/analyzer and you are looking for information how to find samples in McM, how to find generator fragments or parameters of a MC sample, or how to monitor your submitted requests, please go to this page: Analyzer's corner

If you are a MC contact, responsible for a PAG, POG or DPG group and you are looking for information about how to setup a request in McM, about the request checking script or the lexicon used in McM for Monte Carlo requests, please visit this page: Monte Carlo contacts's corner.

If you are a request manager and you are looking for the information about the operations needed for this task, please visit this page: Request manager's corner.

If you are interested on more advanced information, like understanding the status of the requests in computing or having a deeper insight on the cmsDriver arguments, please visit this page: computing's corner or the cmsDriver page.

If you are interested on a detailed documentation of the MC database (McM), please visit the McM page. If you are interested on a detailed documentation of the platform available for monitoring requests in the system, please visit the pMp page.

If you interested to you our newly developed tool: Group Analysis Samples Pages as known as GrASP, please visit the GrASP page:

Here you may find answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any feedback and suggestions.