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====== ProMC Manual, Tutorials, Repositories ======


//Next generation IO data format based on variable number of bytes to store structural data//


  - **[[asc:promc:installation| Installation]]** (covers GNU Linux and IBM BlueGene/Q)
  - **[[asc:promc:examples | Quick start with ProMC]]** (examples and tutorials)
  - **[[asc:promc:introduction| ProMC User's Manual]]**
  - **[[https://github.com/Argonne-National-Laboratory/ProMC| ProMC GitHub repository at ANL]]**


//Monte Carlo  event  repositories based on ProMC://

  * [[http://atlaswww.hep.anl.gov/hepsim/ | =HepSim=  MC event repository]]
  * [[https://atlaswww.hep.anl.gov/asc/wikidoc/doku.php?id=snowmass2013:montecarlo| Snowmass 2013 Monte Carlo repository]] (archive)



====== References: ======

  * S.Chekanov, "Next generation input-output data format for HEP using Google's protocol buffers",  ANL-HEP-CP-13-32, Snowmass 2013 Proceedings. [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6675| arxiv.org:1306.6675]]
  * S.Chekanov, E.May, K. Strand, P. Van Gemmeren, ProMC: Input-output data format for HEP applications using varint encoding, ANL-HEP-PR-13-41, [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1229|  arXiv:1311.1229]], Computer Physics Communications 185 (2014), pp. 2629-2635

====== Talks: ======
S.V.Chekanov. {{:asc:promc_jlab_march2016.pdf|ProMC format (PDF)}}. A talk given at the JLab software meeting (March 29, 2016)


 --- //[[chekanov@anl.gov|Sergei Chekanov]] 2013/03/11 21:45//
 --- //[[chekanov@anl.gov|Sergei Chekanov]] 2013/05/03 12:58//