This course targets young scientists and engineers with little or no experience of ROOT. The basics of the package are covered as well as high level concepts of C++ and Python.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
You can find the slides of the course here.
Participants of the ROOT Summer Student course at CERN may use a ROOT installation available via lxplus or SWAN. See following paragraphs for instructions. Every participant should have a working ROOT installation prior to the course.
SWAN (Service for Web-based ANalysis) is a CERN service offering a web-based platform for interactive computations and workflows. It provides access to user storage and a complete software stack, including ROOT.
In order to be able to connect and use the SWAN service during the course, participants need to make sure that:
- They have a CERN account that is associated to a computing group. They can check if they belong to a computing group at https://account.cern.ch/account/CERNAccount/AccountStatus.aspx. If a participant does not belong to any computing group, she can subscribe to the default computing group following these instructions: https://resources.web.cern.ch/resources/Help/?kbid=067030
- They have created a CERNBox account. In order to create it, they just need to connect and authenticate with their CERN username and password at https://cernbox.cern.ch
- They can log in to SWAN with their CERN username and password: https://swan.cern.ch
ROOT is available on any lxplus instance at CERN. Please make sure you can establish a graphics ssh connection to lxplus.cern.ch using your CERN account (ssh -XY youruser@lxplus.cern.ch).
Different ROOT versions may be sourced via LCG releases, for example:
source /cvmfs/sft.cern.ch/lcg/views/LCG_103/x86_64-centos7-gcc12-opt/setup.sh
ROOT can be installed on the local machine on different platforms. Installation instructions are available at https://root.cern/install