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  1. Prepare a plain text file containing the run and event number for the events of interest. This should be a space-delimited list, with one run-event pair per line.  

  2. Prepare a plain text file listing the input LCIO files from which to strip the events. The Data Catalog can be used to determine which run partition any particular event is in. These files will have to have been staged and be disk-resident.

  3. Prepare a steering file similar to the following:

    Code Block
    titleskimit.lcsim
    collapsetrue
     <lcsim xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xs:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.lcsim.org/schemas/lcsim/1.0/lcsim.xsd">
    <inputFiles>
      <fileList>${inputFileList}</fileList>
    </inputFiles>
    <control>
        <printInputFiles>true</printInputFiles>
        <printDriversDetailed>true</printDriversDetailed>
    </control>
    <execute>
        <driver name="EventMarkerDriver"/>
        <driver name="LCIOSkimmer"/>
        <driver name="LCIOWriter"/>
    </execute>
    <drivers>
        <driver name="EventMarkerDriver"
                type="org.lcsim.job.EventMarkerDriver">
            <eventInterval>1000</eventInterval>
        </driver>
        <driver name="LCIOSkimmer"
                type="org.hps.recon.filtering.LcioEventSkimmer">
            <runAndEventsToStripFileName>${runAndEventsToSkim}</runAndEventsToStripFileName>
            <debug>true</debug>
        </driver>
        <driver name="LCIOWriter"
                type="org.lcsim.util.loop.LCIODriver">
            <outputFilePath>${outputFile}</outputFilePath>
        </driver>
    </drivers>
</lcsim>

  4. Run the job using the latest hps-java binary jar file

    Code Block
    > java -server -jar hps-distribution-3.11-SNAPSHOT-bin.jar -DinputFileList=lcioFileList.txt -DrunAndEventsToSkim=runAndEventList.txt -DoutputFile=skimmedEvents skimit.lcsim
  5. A summary will be printed at the end of the job and the selected events will be written to the specified outputFile. 

 

Determining which file partition an event is in

 

Here's one way to find out the file partition in which a particular event can be found.
 
in the Enter Filter... field type your search query. For instance, to find
 
5795 28009772
 
enter
 
runMin eq 5795 && runMax eq 5795 && FIRST_PHYSICS_EVENT lt 28009772 && LAST_PHYSICS_EVENT gt 28009772 

 

This should return
 

  

Clicking on the link will take you to that partition's entry, where you can find the evio file name. (It would be cool if we could then enable a staging request to be issued from this page as well.) You probably don't want the evio file anyway, but at least now you know which partition to stage to get to the recon or skim file for whatever pass you are interested in.
This is fine for a handful of events, but for bunches of them you most likely want to script this. There is a python interface to the catalog which is documented at: