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

1. Installation (covers GNU Linux and IBM BlueGene/Q)
2. Quick start with ProMC (examples and tutorials)
3. ProMC User's Manual
4. ProMC SVN repository

Monte Carlo event repositories based on ProMC:

1. ProMC Monte Carlo event repository for Snowmass 2013
2. =HepSim= MC event repository

• S.Chekanov, “Next generation input-output data format for HEP using Google's protocol buffers”, ANL-HEP-CP-13-32, Snowmass 2013 Proceedings. arxiv.org:1306.6675

• S.V. Chekanov, E.May, K. Strand, P. Van Gemmeren, ProMC: Input-output data format for HEP applications using varint encoding,

ANL-HEP-PR-13-41 arXiv:1311.1229, Computer Physics Communications 185 (2014), pp. 2629-2635

A number of people contributed to the code source of the ProMC package: S.Chekanov (the design / first version), Last Feremenga (converters), K.Strand (converters/merging tools), P.Van Gemmeren (testing / IO buffering), E.May (testing on BlueGene/Q)

— Sergei Chekanov 2013/03/11 21:45 — Sergei Chekanov 2013/05/03 12:58