Job splitting for CRAB about combineharvester HOT 4 CLOSED

Does it work if you generate a set of jobs with different seeds, e.g. adding -s 1:50:1 ?

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Thanks for this suggestion! While a bit unintuitive, it works fine.

If I wanted to implement this more cleanly (e.g. to assure that I never accidentally submit two sets of toys with the same seed), I assume I'd have to change EnhancedCombine.run_method to create dummy lists of subbed_vars entries like in [1]?

[1] https://github.com/cms-analysis/CombineHarvester/blob/master/CombineTools/python/combine/EnhancedCombine.py#L82-L85

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I think if the seed is specified in any way, it's always going to be difficult to protect against accidental reuse. One option would be to be use a random seed in each job (-s -1). This requires a slight syntax upgrade in combineTool.py, see #254. Would this work in your case?

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Yes, that is exactly what I need! Thank you for thinking through it.

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