fads

fads, a FAst Detector Simulation, is a Go-based detector simulation including a tracking system embedded into a magnetic field, calorimeters and a muon system.

Installation

Is done via go get:

$ go get go-hep.org/x/hep/fads/...

Documentation

Is available on godoc: https://godoc.org/go-hep.org/x/hep/fads

Example

A test application is available over there:

https://go-hep.org/x/hep/fads/blob/master/cmd/fads-app/main.go

A more in-depth tutorial is available at go-hep/tutos but, in a nutshell:

$ fads-app -help
Usage: fads-app [options] <hepmc-input-file>

ex:
 $ fads-app -l=INFO -evtmax=-1 ./testdata/hepmc.data

options:
  -cpu-prof=false: enable CPU profiling
  -evtmax=-1: number of events to process
  -l="INFO": log level (DEBUG|INFO|WARN|ERROR)
  -nprocs=0: number of concurrent events to process

$ fads-app $GOPATH/src/go-hep.org/x/hep/fads/testdata/hepmc.data
::: fads-app...
app                  INFO >>> running evt=0...
app                  INFO >>> running evt=1...
app                  INFO >>> running evt=2...
app                  INFO >>> running evt=3...
app                  INFO >>> running evt=4...
app                  INFO >>> running evt=5...
app                  INFO cpu: 1.212611252s
app                  INFO mem: alloc:           3219 kB
app                  INFO mem: tot-alloc:      26804 kB
app                  INFO mem: n-mallocs:      53058
app                  INFO mem: n-frees:        52419
app                  INFO mem: gc-pauses:         36 ms
::: fads-app... [done] (time=1.216341021s)

Using the execution tracer

It is now possible to run fads-app with the runtime/trace execution tracer enabled:

$ fads-app -trace=foo.out ./testdata/hepmc.data

The traces are then analyzed and displayed via trace-viewer from the catapult project:

$ go tool trace `which fads-app` ./foo.out

See: catapult-tracing