Alexander Richards, UCL 1 Atlfast and RTT (plus DCube) Christmas Meeting 18/12/2007

Alexander Richards, UCL 2 Atlfast Fast Simulation Package

3 Alexander Richards, UCL ATLAS fast simulation It includes most crucial detector aspects: jets reconstruction in the calorimeter, momentum/energy smearing for leptons and photons, magnetic fields effects and missing transverse energy It provides, starting from the list of particles in the event, the list of reconstructed jets, isolated leptons and photons and expected missing transverse energy. Optionally package provides a list of reconstructed charge tracks What is Atlfast ?

4 Alexander Richards, UCL Smearing functions replace full chain 4-5 orders of magnitude faster than full simulation What is Atlfast ?

5 Alexander Richards, UCL How does it perform? Full simulation + reconstruction takes ~½ hr per event. Atlfast test jobs in x faster than full chain 2376 s307 sTotal (includes initialisation) 200 ms12.6 msPythia execute per event 21.8 ms8.15 msAtlfast execute per event ttH(H  bb) (10k, Pythia) Z  ee (10k, Pythia) Sample

6 Alexander Richards, UCL Instructions on web  (static UCL page)  AtlfastDocumentation (Atlas TWiki portal) Easiest way is to  Set up a release directory  Set up run time environment (athena)  'get_files XXXXtoAtlfasttoYYYY.py' XXXX is Pythia or POOL YYYY is CBNT, AOD and in r12 AAN  Configure script  'athena XXXXtoAtlfasttoYYYY.py' How to run Atlfast?

7 Alexander Richards, UCL Some plots! High Pt Low Pt QCD Jet Sample

8 Alexander Richards, UCL Towards "Atlfast Phase 2" FastCaloSim  Parameterised showers in a full calorimeter Fatras  Fast tracking via hit simulation More "Atlas", less "Fast"

9 Alexander Richards, UCL Timing still prohibitive but getting better..... Project is at validation stage Towards "Atlfast Phase 2" M. Duehrssen

Alexander Richards, UCL 10 RTT Run Time Tester

11 Alexander Richards, UCL What is ATLAS RTT? “The ATLAS RTT is a tool for developers which provides them with a convenient way to test, on a nightly basis, both the status and the output that any changes to their code may have had.” Does it run? Is the output the same as expected – regression tests/root macros ATLAS RTT lets you automate: ● Running Athena (as well as non-Athena) jobs. ● Running post-job activities i.e. ROOT macros, regression tests and user specified Python scripts. ● Publishing all results to a (web served) user specified directory.

12 Alexander Richards, UCL How does it work? Several NICOS builds occur each night –’Nightlies’ When Complete the build ready flag set and RTT can begin RTT scans all packages in the release for those which require RTT tests RTT then proceeds in two steps: Firstly the Data Copier checks to make sure that any data requested by the jobs is available and if not it copies it to the running directory Secondly the RTT tests are begun and results updated in ‘near real-time’ to the results webpage.

13 Alexander Richards, UCL RTT Results results/weeklyTable/weekly.php

14 Alexander Richards, UCL RTT Results

15 Alexander Richards, UCL RTT Results

16 Alexander Richards, UCL Including RTT jobs For RTT to pick up that your package requires RTT tests you must add lines to your requirements file. RTT steered by an.xml configuration file, which must be store it in a subdirectory of your package called ‘test’..xml file may be validated on the RTT main page:  Every job must belong to a ‘jobgroup’, the name of which must be registered with one of the RTT developers. Jobs belonging to a job group are treated the same way by the RTT with respect to any post Athena actions/tests. As many jobgroups as required may be registered to your package.

17 Alexander Richards, UCL Example configuration file

Alexander Richards, UCL 18 DCube Histogram Comparison

19 Alexander Richards, UCL What is DCube? DCube is a histogram comparison package. Can be run interactively or as part of RTT Capable of comparing 1D and 2D histos with:  Kolmogorov-Smirnov test    test  Bin-by-bin comparison Results generated in user friendly web format

20 Alexander Richards, UCL How does it work? DCube is steered by.xml configuration file. Config file picked up and run in RTT by a post athena macro called DCubeRunner.xml file specifies the following:  Absolute location of a reference ROOT file  Name of the file to compare with this reference file, called the Monitored file  Which of the three types of tests to perform  The P-values to mark ‘warning’ and ‘failure’ threshold for stats tests Both reference and monitored files may contain multiple histos each of which may have any of the three tests performed on it

21 Alexander Richards, UCL DCube Results

22 Alexander Richards, UCL DCube Results

23 Alexander Richards, UCL DCube Results

24 Alexander Richards, UCL DCube Results

25 Alexander Richards, UCL Summary With RTT we have the ability to test the stability of code on a nightly basis. With the addition of DCube we can now check the ‘stability of our physics’ on a nightly basis Future plans include creating physics validation plots for both GeneratorsRTT and TestAtlfast packages.

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