Types of Kumacs

• UTIL kumacs - $STAR/kumacs/util
  There are utility kumacs which setup default search paths for kumacs, setup standardized directory structure for tables in STAF, load libraries, read in default parameter files, define global macros, input and output files, write ntuples, etc.
• PAM kumacs: - $STAR/pams/domain/kumac
  
  1. each DOMAIN should have a create_tables_domain.kumac with a different macro for each PAM --> to create the output tables needed
  2. each PAM in the domain should have an init_pam.kumac and a run_pam.kumac associated with it, with different macros for each module in the PAM --> to initialize and run the PAM from the chain kumac. The init pam should have a read, write and init macro in it to write parameters to xdf file, read from file, and to just initialize the table values (init).
• CHAIN kumacs:
  The chain kumacs run sets of PAMs in a domain and also sets of PAMs in many domains. They use the utility kumacs and PAM kumacs.
  • Domain Chain kumacs - $STAR/kumacs/domain
    - execute chains of package kumacs in domain
  • BFC (BigFullChain) Chain kumacs - $STAR/kumacs/chain
    - high level kumacs used for production The BFC chain kumac in $STAR/kumacs/chain is the overall steering/driving kumac for all simulation, reconstruction and analysis packages in STAR.
  • Example BFC Chain kumacs
    $STAR/kumacs/chain/call_bfc*.kumac
  • Example kumacs for post-DST analysis (for MDC)
    $STAR/kumacs/dst/call_bfc_read_dst*.kumac and analyse_*.kumac