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This is an example to run jobs and especially  SLIC , the Simulator for the Linear Collider, on the FermiGrid which is part of the Open Science Grid. SLIC is a Geant4-based simulations package that uses an XML geometry input format called LCDD to describe geometry, sensitive detectors and readout geometry. 

Warning

Note! The examples are written in a way that one can just cut and paste from your browser window to the terminal session on ILCSIM. Do not cut and paste into an editor (It wouldn't work unless you remove a lot of  back slashes: \ (sad) ). Instead

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copy and edit the files that are created

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and modify them to to fit your own needs.

Prerequisites

  1. get a DOE grid certificate from http://security.fnal.gov/pki/Get-Personal-DOEGrids-Cert.html
    This page also explains how to export the certificate from the browser and how to deal with directory permissions and such.
  2. register to the ILC VO (Virtual organization) at http://cd-amr.fnal.gov/ilc/ilcsim/ilcvo-registration.shtml that will guide you to:
    https://voms.fnal.gov:8443/vomrs/ilc/vomrs
  3. Everything is set up  on ILCSIM. So to try things out it is recommended to get an account on ILCSIM using the following form
    http://cd-amr.fnal.gov/ilc/ilcsim/ilcsim.shtml

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