FWD Software

["Van Buren, Gene" <gene AT bnl.gov>]

Hi,

The jobs are running now, and we already have some output available for 
anyone to examine to be sure this is doing what you want:

/star/data14/GRID/NFS_FileList/production_pp500_2022_DEV_st_fwd_test_mudst.txt
/star/data14/GRID/NFS_FileList/production_pp500_2022_DEV_st_fwd_test_picodst.txt

-Gene

> On Apr 13, 2026, at 4:07 PM, Van Buren, Gene <gene AT bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> OK, submitted. These 4214 jobs will probably start appearing in a couple 
> days (shorter jobs) and finish in ~5-8 days.
> -Gene
> 
>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 3:47 PM, Ogawa, Akio <akio AT bnl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> Okey. 1/4 of runs are a good start. 
>> 
>> From: Van Buren, Gene <gene AT bnl.gov>
>> Date: Monday, April 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
>> To: Ogawa, Akio <akio AT bnl.gov>
>> Cc: star-fwd-software-l AT lists.bnl.gov <star-fwd-software-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
>> Subject: Re: Small scale test production for run22 fwd stream
>> 
>> Hi, Akio
>> 
>> Sorry I didn't get to this before the weekend. I've prepared the job files 
>> for this, and I see that it's almost 18k files with over 150M events. I've 
>> made some tests and calculations to find that this test production, unless 
>> I significantly interrupt the ongoing 3 physics productions, will take 2-4 
>> weeks to process. So....it isn't really all that small. Output would be 
>> ~25 TB of MuDsts.
>> 
>> Any chance you are willing to scale this back a bit? e.g. a quarter of the 
>> files or runs? Or do you really need this much?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Gene
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2026, at 7:59 AM, Ogawa, Akio <akio AT bnl.gov> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello
>>> 
>>> I'd like to request test production of all production_pp500_2022 runs and 
>>> all fwd stream files from Run22 day81 (2022 Mar 22, run 23081001 ~ 
>>> 23081064) with current STAR code & tags we are using for physics stream 
>>> Run22 productions.
>>> 
>>> If you can include already approved & merged PR792:
>>>   https://github.com/star-bnl/star-sw/pull/792
>>> it would be great but not critical. Speed is more critical at this 
>>> moment, I think.
>>> 
>>> We want Mudst files somewhere on disks so we can run afterburner on it 
>>> with more recent fwd tracking code. No StEvent file are needed on disks.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Akio
>>> 
>>> From: star-fwd-software-l-request AT lists.bnl.gov 
>>> <star-fwd-software-l-request AT lists.bnl.gov> on behalf of Ogawa, Akio 
>>> <akio AT bnl.gov>
>>> Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 11:09 AM
>>> To: star-fwd-software-l AT lists.bnl.gov <star-fwd-software-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
>>> Subject: [[Star-fwd-software-l] ] Small scale test production for run22 
>>> fwd stream
>>> 
>>> Hello
>>> 
>>> I ran afterbuner on P24ia fwd stream mudsts. These MuDsts seems to be
>>> poroduced between 2023/04/29 and 2025/07/24.
>>> 
>>> From a MuDst produced at very end (2025/07/24), I do not see any tracks
>>> reconstructed:
>>> 
>>>   /star/u/akio/fcstrk11/star-sw-fwd/log
>>> 
>>> Please see the log file tell us this is what you expect from mudst with
>>> the FST raw hit recording bug or am I doing something wrong.
>>> 
>>> David also told me that he remembers we did the whole run22 P24ia fwd
>>> stream mudsts production without including FST raw hit recording bug fix.
>>> 
>>> If so, I woiuld like to request a small (a day worth or 10 good long runs)
>>> of Run22 fwd stream test re-production with currrent fwd tracking code in
>>> STAR library, so that we can run afterburner with tracking incl STGC to
>>> produce PicoDsts privately, unless recent changes to include STGC in
>>> tracking can be merged to STAR code base very soon.
>>> 
>>> I'd propose we pick runs from early period4 (after 2022-03-14 16:25
>>> 23073059 1st LED based gain change) for this production.
>>> 
>>> OGAWA, akio                 Email : akio AT bnl.gov
>>> BrookHaven National Lab. Physics Dep. 510A 2-235
>>> Upton, NY, 11973-5000          Tel. 631-344-5293
>> 
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