Using Minuit on SLAC's Unix Cluster
2009 August 3
Update: Newer versions of Minuit (C++ versions) are
installed as part of CERN's ROOT package, in:
/afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/cernroot
[Here is some information on using the old FORTRAN version of Minuit.]
6 May 2003
To use the CERN fitting package Minuit on the unix cluster at SLAC, the user
must supply the following items:
- A main program (example: myprog.f) to assign I/O unit
numbers to file names and to invoke the main Minuit subprogram
- A file (myfcn.f)
containing the FCN function to be minimized
- A file containing the function
(func.f) to be fit
- A GNUmakefile to link and build the executable
(in this example, myprog)
- A file (myprog.mincards) containing a set
of Minuit control cards.
To get started, copy the examples to a subdirectory in your space and
type gmake. The program myprog will be created.
When you run myprog, it will create the file
myprog.results.
Page originated by Willy Langeveld
John Bartelt