Josh Bendavid

I looked into the case of ROOT persistence of boost histograms a bit. This doesn't work with the default storage type (I think because of reasons which @HDembinski outlined in...

Modifying the madgraph code to use the python condor API rather than command line output parsing would be a clear improvement, so if you manage to do it, I'm sure...

Ah, I think running from eos is a really bad idea, since it doesn't handle small files well. Better to test from /tmp/user on lxplus, or from a personal desktop...

I think it's worth trying to run some self-contained test jobs (outside of madgraph) which take input and output from non-shared space to verify that this is working, and easily...

Of the two solutions proposed by Kenneth, strong preference for using condor_submit -spool to allow submitting from local scratch space. afs is not sufficiently reliable/performant, and the plans for future...

The best is to make sure there is no file named cmsgrid_final.lhe until the very end. (and then also check the exit codes of each step and quit with a...

For previous models as far as I can tell that data doesn't actually do anything (and you can provide different values with no effect.) But it could indeed be that...

(I may have more time to look at this later in December/January )

argyllcms supports using an external command line tool to set the patches IIRC, so this might already be possible with the right command line options

I can imagine that what's happening is that the subscription is modified underneath, so I would assume that the other values will not update in this condition. Not sure what...