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titleAccess to NFS

Access to SLAC NFS can be requested from the Unix Administration List. (Of course, you must already
have a SLAC Unix account to get NFS access.)

From a Unix terminal, open Open a connection to noric-new and logina SLAC Unix machine.

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ssh noric-new
[YOURACCOUNT]@iris.slac.stanford.edu

Replace YOURACCOUNT with your actual SLAC Unix account.

Now, switch to the bash shell.

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Tip
titleSLIC Command Line Interface

Unlike most other packages, the The SLIC command line interface to
SLIC simply maps directly to Geant4 commands. This keeps the interface
consistent. This also means that the order of the switches matters,
because it can affect Geant4's current statemacro commands.

To see available command line options, invoke the help command.

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slic -g $PRJ_DIST/slic/current/examples/sdjan03/SDJan03.lcdd -z -n
Tip
titleLCDD files for Common Detectors

The LCDD files for common detectors such as SiD are kept at /nfs/slac/g/lcd/mc/prj/data/detectors,
which should be accessible from the SLAC Linux machines.

Now, in order to have a work area for your SLIC usage, checkout the
package from CVS.

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slic -g examples/sdjan03/SDJan03.lcdd -z -n
Idle>/control/execute macros/vis_gl.mac
Idle>/control/execute macros/gps.mac
Idle>/run/beamOn

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slic -g /path/to/geometry/file -z -n

The -z option tells SLIC to initialize the simulator at that
point and -n will start an interactive session.

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titleSLIC Initialization

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Alternately, you may start up in interactive mode and manually input
all required commands.

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slic -n
Idle>/lcdd/setURI examples/sdjan03/SDJan03.lcdd
Idle>/run/initialize

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Tip
titleBatch job submission

Here is a set of commands that may be useful for batch submission.

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slic -g geom_file -i input_file -p path_for_output_file -o output_file -z -s #_events_to_skip -r #_events
Warning
titleSkip before Run Events
The -s argument needs to come before -r or it will be ignored!