Welcome to LHCb Analysis Productions!

The goal of Analysis Productions (the DPA-WP2 project) is to support user processing of data and simulation using the DIRAC transformation system. It is an extension of the WG productions system to allow all users to easily submit ntupling jobs for Run 1, Run 2 and Run 3 data and simulation.

Completely new to Analysis Productions? Check out the Analysis Productions Starterkit tutorial.

Getting Help

Questions can be asked on the “DPA WP2 Analysis Productions” mattermost channel.

Contributing

You might have noticed these documentation pages are still under development. Any contributions to these pages are very welcome! The sources are available on CERN GitLab at lhcb-dpa/analysis-productions/LbAPDoc.

Table of Contents

User Guide

• Getting Started
  • Overview
  • Creating an Analysis Production
  • YAML configuration
  • Options files
  • Python environment
  • Adding large files
  • Next steps
• YAML Configuration Sub-Keys
  • input
  • checks
• Testing
  • Locally
  • Continuous integration
  • Next steps
• Submitting
  • Merge requests
  • Monitoring
  • Accessing output
• Accessing Output
  • The web application
  • The apd python package
• Housekeeping
  • Archiving superseded or obsolete outputs
  • Reusing Samples
  • Instructions for liaisons
• 2024 Data Taking
  • Overview
  • Running Productions in Parallel to Data Taking
  • Controlling Parallel Data Collection
  • Archiving Active Productions
  • Next Steps

Developer Guide

• Overview
  • Testing production requests
  • Software Components
  • Analysis Productions specificities

API Reference

• LbAPCommon
• LbAPLocal
• LbAPI
• apd

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page