CMS DAS Pre-Exercises: Glossary

Setting up CMSSW requires some environment setup and the cmsrel command.

You can use the web portal for DAS or the dasgoclient to find information about a given dataset.

There are several utilities for gaining insight into EDM ROOT files.

A MiniAOD file can be slimmed by just retaining physics objects of interest.

EDM standalone utilities can be used to determine the size of MiniAOD files.

FWLite is a useful tool to perform simple analysis on a MiniAOD file.

Use and validate your grid certificate.

Setting up your CRAB configuration and run jobs over the CMS grid.

Publish your CRAB datasets.

Calculate the luminosities of the datasets processed via CRAB.

You can use both an EDAnalyzer or FWLite to analyze MiniAOD files

Various methods exist for performing fits. You can use inbuilt functions or user defined functions. You can use plain ROOT or the RooFit package.

Interact with your git configuration using git config --global.

Use the git clone command to obtain a local copy of a git repository.

Add and interact with new remotes using the git remote command.

Use the add and commit commands to add changes to the local repository.

The pull and push commands will transfer changes between the remote and local copies of the repository.

pyROOT is an easy to use alternative to using the ROOT libraries in a C++ program.

Jupyter notebooks are a great way to perform real-time analysis tasks.

Docker images are super useful for encapsulating a desired environment.

Docker images can be run using the Docker or Singularity runtimes.