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Folks, We are close to being ready to launch MC. We are starting some test runs here at SLAC to see that the machinery is working and making final checks on the detector geometry files. So far, we have found no eggregious errors in the recent Gismo release, so we'll probably remove the 'Beta' tag. DEC sites can grab the binaries from Dave Gerdes at (http://zeno.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~gerdes/lcd-DEC.html) So, I hope you are gearing up to install the generator and full simulation code and preparing to use your batch system! The next step is deciding what generator code to use and how many events to generate. The plan is to use Tim's pybms for all but the SUSY stuff, and isajet for SUSY. The batch generator interface to pybms is available from http://www-sldnt.slac.stanford.edu/nld/zips.htm; the bbhad interface should follow soon. The pybms code must be obtained from Tim Barklow. See http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~timb/LC/generators.html. We've had some discussions here on numbers of events to generate. They can get quite daunting, ranging from 5k tt(bar) to 13M gamma-gamma background events. We will run some timing tests for each channel and then suggest generating as much of each as we can in the allotted time before the February meeting. That way people can have a look at the samples and learn which could affect them the most. Please get all the pieces for your farms together soon as we expect launch could happen in the next week! Kindly use this mailing list for discussions of the programme... Regards, Richard -- Richard Dubois SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [log in to unmask] http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~richard/ 650-926-3824 650-926-2923 (FAX)