Run combination file format

Combinations of MC runs are used at several points by Professor: to decide on the input MC runs to use in building an interpolation (or a set of interpolations), to decide which interpolation to use for tuning or other comparison, to plot run-combination tune scatter plots, etc. By default the Professor scripts will use all the available MC runs (or the interpolation corresponding to them), but if a more select subset (or subsets) is required, then they must be specified as a text file.

The run combination files are stored as simple text files – one run-combination per line:

Run_ID_1 Run_ID_2 Run_ID_3 Run_ID_4 ...
Run_ID_1 Run_ID_4 Run_ID_5 RUN_ID_10 ...
...

The Run_ID_x are the directory names of the MC run directories in the mc/ directory, usually simple numbers:

mc/000
   001
   002
   ...

thus:

000 001 002 003 ...
000 003 004 009 ...
...