D0 Monte Carlo Production Collective

A few points to avoid confusion:

(Officially) you must have an OCPB representative request your job for you. (In real life, you can make the request and the coordinator will get the okay from your OCPB rep.)
We now support FULL_D0RECO V12.21. Thus we can deliver D0GEANT raw output as well as RECO DST output!
Though you can request as many events as you want...your request will be better recieved if you show some restraint. This usually means that you shouldn't request more than 20,000 events at a time. Individual input files shouldn't be too large -- for close packing on disks. You can't miss withh 100 event input files! Somewhere between 100 and 500 events per file should be okay, though some farmers won't accept files with more than 100 events in them.
Input files must have a FATMEN compatible name:
aaa_bbbbbbbbb_ccccc_d_nn.ISA for example
QCD_TWOJETRUN_IS713_A_01.ISA
- aaa = three characters for the physics group.
- bbbbbbbbb = nine character description of events.
- ccccc = five character description of event generator.
- d = one alphanumeric descriptor you can choose.
- nn = two digit file number.

The request form includes links to file naming instructions and this sort of thing to help you out.

Participating institutions include Florida State, LAFEX (Rio), U Maryland, Northern Illinois U, and UTA.
The current Collective Coordinator is Ransom Stephens. The UTA farm operates at better than 95% efficiency. That means there is never a wasted CPU cycle on the UTALF farm. If you want to put every CPU cycle to work for you and your experiment, then join the collective! Send mail to stephens@uta.edu and check out the farmer's guide.

Currently the introduction of processed D0GEANT into FATMEN is the responsibility of the requestor. We are investigating the possibility of sending tapes of processed events both to the requestor and the FNAL vault where they can be inserted into FATMEN "almost" automatically.
Please e-mail us with any suggestions/criticisms/comments you have about the way production is handled.