[backport 14_2_X] Make HGCAL Validation reproducible

[felicepantaleo]

backport of #46962

[felicepantaleo]

@cmsbuild please test

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @felicepantaleo for CMSSW_14_2_X.

It involves the following packages:

• SimCalorimetry/HGCalAssociatorProducers (simulation, upgrade)
• Validation/HGCalValidation (dqm)

@Moanwar, @antoniovagnerini, @civanch, @cmsbuild, @kpedro88, @mdhildreth, @rseidita, @srimanob, @subirsarkar can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@apsallid, @bsunanda, @cseez, @denizsun, @hatakeyamak, @lecriste, @lgray, @missirol, @pfs, @rovere, @salimcerci, @sameasy, @sethzenz, @vandreev11, @youyingli this is something you requested to watch as well.
@antoniovilela, @mandrenguyen, @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from Make HGCAL Validation reproducible #46962

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[felicepantaleo]

type hgcal

[felicepantaleo]

type bugfix

[felicepantaleo]

backport of #46962

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 16KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-f89235/43699/summary.html
COMMIT: a4ea84d
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_2_X_2025-01-09-1100/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/47066/43699/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 1 lines to the logs
• Reco comparison results: 8 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 46
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3483722
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 1647
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3482055
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 45 files compared)
• Checked 202 log files, 172 edm output root files, 46 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[antoniovagnerini]

+1

[civanch]

+1

@felicepantaleo , does backport really required? If yes, better to explain in description.

[Moanwar]

+Upgrade

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_14_2_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_15_0_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @rappoccio, @antoniovilela, @sextonkennedy, @mandrenguyen (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)