[Rivet] Herwig problem

Adam Davison adamd at hep.ucl.ac.uk
Fri Jun 25 16:32:35 BST 2010


Hi Andy,

Just to follow up on this, in Herwig_i if use the standard herwig job 
options and just set IPROC to 2800 it runs fine. But of course there's 
all sorts of ATLAS stuff going on there so I have no idea what that 
tells you :)

Either way I got my cross-sections now.

Thanks,

Adam

On 22/06/2010 18:05, Andy Buckley wrote:
> On 22/06/10 15:17, Adam Davison wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having a (probably unrelated) Herwig problem. Whenever I choose a
>> diboson process, 2800, 2810 etc... then I get a crash:
>>
>>             NUMBER OF SHOTS    =       10000
>>
>>    HWWARN CALLED FROM SUBPROGRAM HWHGB1: CODE = 501
>>    RUN CANNOT CONTINUE
>>
>> All I'm running here is:
>>
>> agile-runmc -p IPROC=2800 Herwig:6.510
>>
>> I also tried this in an old setup of rivet on a 32-bit slc4 machine at
>> UCL and got exactly the same error, which makes me think this isn't a
>> problem with my toolchain or architecture any more.
>>
>> Are there any known issues with rivet here?
>>      
> You mean AGILe rather than Rivet, I guess... there is nothing do with
> Rivet going on in that command.
>
> I've not been aware of that problem so far, but I've reproduced it on
> lxplus5 with a fresh AGILe 1.1.6 installation, so it's certainly
> genuine. I don't know anything about HW diboson setup: do e.g. any extra
> flags need to be set? And does this work fine through the Athena
> Herwig_i interface?
>
> Andy
>
>    



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