# McM glossary: campaigns

### What is a campaign?

A campaign defines the condition, i.e. the cmsDriver, of an entire set of requests which will be produced for a standard production (e.g. MC for analysis and comparison of 2018 data) or for a specific collection of requests (e.g. Cosmics).

In the following, the different entries needed for the definition of a campaign are explained.

### CMSSW Release 

CMSSW version to be used while processing requests that are members of this campaign.

### Energy 

Energy in [TeV](https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/TeV) to be used.

### Next 

List of campaigns ("Next Campaign" in Flows) with which this campaign is joined by flows (chained) and is the first campaign ("Allowed Campaigns" in Flows).

### On Hold 

Flag whether this campaign is on hold.

### Events Per Lumi 

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### Sequences 

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### No output 

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### Generators 

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### Memory 

Default amount of memory to be used (in MB).

### Type 

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### Status 

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### Input Dataset 

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### Approval 

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### Pileup Dataset Name 

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### Validation 

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### Root


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