RECAST Control Center

Introduction

This is an early prototype for the RECAST control center. This web application is used to launch jobs for different back-ends that perform the reinterpretation requested on the RECAST frtonend currently hosted at the Perimeter Institute. The goal for RECAST is to allow analysis reinterpretation for the community.

It supports CERN SSO authentication which will allow for fine-grained control over which users are able to launch the reinterpretation jobs and/or upload the results to the front-end. This web application provides a plugin model for analyses. Currently, we have a template plugin for Rivet analyses that runs quickly. We are working with CERN IT's analysis preservation product to provide a template plugin for reinterpretation based on the full simulation, reconstruction, and event selection.

For convenience, one can initiate a request directly from the control center, which will be uploaded to the front-end.

Prerequsites

• Python 2.7
• redis
• python-devel
• gcc

Basic Steps To Lunch Control Center

1. Install prerequisites
2. Install recast-control-center
3. Run server.py

Quick Instructions For People That Think They Know What They Are Doing

wget https://github.com/recast-hep/recast-control-center-prototype/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd recast-control-center-prototype-master/
sudo pip install --process-dependency-links .

Instructions for RHEL7

Install prerequsites:

sudo yum install redis python-devel gcc
sudo easy_install pip

Get the code:

wget https://github.com/recast-hep/recast-control-center-prototype/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd recast-control-center-prototype-master/

Install control center

sudo pip install --process-dependency-links .

If this is for a development server you may want to use

sudo pip install --process-dependency-links -e .

to see you edits in real time.

Finally, run the server

python server.py

Special Help For RHEL6

Install python 2.7 out of the box we need to install it. Start with the tools we need to build Python and its modules:

yum install gcc gdbm-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel \
            bzip2-devel sqlite-devel db4-devel openssl-devel tk-devel \
            bluez-libs-devel libxslt libxslt-devel libxml2-devel libxml2

Download and compile Python 2.7.1:

VERSION=2.7.9
mkdir /tmp/src 
cd /tmp/src/
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/$VERSION/Python-$VERSION.tgz
tar xzf Python-$VERSION.tgz
rm Python-$VERSION.tgz
cd Python-$VERSION 
./configure
make
sudo make altinstall

Now we need to install Python setuputils:

cd /tmp/src
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg
sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg

Now install pip to install the rest of our dependencies:

sudo easy_install-2.7 pip

Install RECAST Control Center prerequsites:

sudo yum install redis gcc

Get the code:

wget https://github.com/recast-hep/recast-control-center-prototype/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd recast-control-center-prototype-master/

Install

sudo pip-2.7 install --process-dependency-links .

If this is for a development server you may want to use

sudo pip-2.7 install --process-dependency-links -e .

to see you edits in real time.

Run the server

python27 server.py