Hardware configuration of PROOF

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I hope you realise that PROOF is NOT a “general purpose batch system”.
In order to understand what it is good for, see, for example (search for the string “PROOF” inside):
“ROOT User’s Guide” → “Trees” → “Using TTree::MakeSelector”
“ROOT Primer” → “File I/O and Parallel Analysis” → “N-tuples in ROOT” → “For the advanced user: Processing trees with a selector script”
TSelector

Compiled Proof analysis using ExRoot

Dear Jan, Sorry for the late reply. There are two questions in your posts. Using PROOF to process data not in ROOT TTree format PROOF was designed to process ROOT trees and in its default mode it is steered by the tree dataset. However, PROOF has also a mode where the Process method of the selector is called a certain number of times, distributed between workers (the one you were playing with). This mode can be adapted to process other files. The ‘event’ or ‘entry’ unit will then be to pr…

A simple instruction of how to setup and test a PROOF pool

[quote=“nengxu”]Hi Everyone, I made an instruction for beginners: wisconsin.cern.ch/~nengxu/xrootd … _PROOF.ppt It includes an example which runs on some ATLAS data. I think most of the beginners will need it. Please have a try. Neng[/quote] The link is dead… EDIT : the file is available here.