(S.Chekanov, E.May)

ANL BG-HEP library is designed to run CPU-intensive HEP calculations on the BlueGene/Q supercomputer (Vesta/Mira) of Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. The main features of the BG@HEP library are:

• Many packages have been redesigned removing ROOT, HBOOK and CERNLIB calls
• Monte Carlo / NLO programs redesigned to use MPI for random seeds and outputs on multiple cores
• The default output of event records is ProMC file format

The following HEP libraries are supported:

• CERNLIBlite - a light version of CERNLIB (without HBOOK)
• fastjet (v 3.03) - jet library Fastjet
• hepmc (v 2.06.09) - HEPMC library
• lhapdf5 (v5.9) - LHAPDF the Les Houches Accord PDF Interface
• lhapdf6 (v6.4)
• MCFM v.6.7 - NLO program with ProMC output for ntuples
• jetphox (v3.02) - A JetPhox NLO program
• promc (v1.3) - ProMC data I/O library
• protobuf (v2.5) - (comes with ProMC)
• pythia8 (v8180)- Pythia8 with ProMC output
• jetphox 1.302 - NLO program with ProMC output
• zlib (v2.09)

To setup the library, run this setup script:

source /home/chakanau/public/BG-HEP/bghep_setup.sh

This will setup the above libraries. Each library has a “Makefile” which can be compiled and run a program on BlueGene/Q. Look at this “bghep_setup.sh” to see location of each library.

A list of Monte Carlo simulations and NLO programs generated on BlueGene/Q (Vesta, ANL) is listed on the RefHepSim web page.

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— Sergei Chekanov 2014/02/04 10:24