Re: Problems at 120 GeV

From: Alfredo Ferrari <alfredo.ferrari_at_cern.ch>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 21:06:29 +0200

Dear Joseph

we need the starting random number which triggers the crash

             Ciao
            Alfredo

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On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Joseph Comfort wrote:

> I need to produce kaons and pions near 0 deg. for 120-GeV protons on a
> platinum cylinder 6 cm long. I use a geometry similar to many successful
> applications at lower energies. In running 40 cpu cores at once, with
> different random number seeds, some make it through while others bomb out.
>
> The input file for one of the failures is attached, along with the .err
> file. The only code modification is in the attached mgdraw routine, which
> is used for output to post-processing.
>
> I can live with warning messages in a file that I will eventually delete.
> But what do I need to do to prevent the failures? I went from 'Precision'
> to 'New-defaults' and then turned EMF off. These prevented problems from
> showing up sooner, but I still get failures.
>
> Thank you,
> Joe
>
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