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\section{Automatic reduction with floydsauto}  \textbf{floydsauto} is the executable used to perform  \emph{automatic reduction}. We do not report here all the options  available for this executable, since this script has been optimized to  run at LCOGT in order to produce the automatic data products for  external users. We will focus on data products.  \textbf{floydsauto} runs every day with a cron job on the last 5 days of  observations. For each night, it divides the observations using the  {\em PROPID}\footnote{{\em PROPID} is a unique number that identifies different  proposals}, reduces the data, and groups them in tar files. Each tar  file will have in the name the Proposal ID, the telescope, the date of  observations, and the MJD\footnote{The number reported is actually not the MJD, but MJD $\pm$ 1 day. This number will update at midnight local time in order to remain the same as far as the reducer compute the reduction during day-time and during the same day.} when the reduction was performed. If a  standard star was observed the same night, a tar file of automatic  reductions for the standard frames will also be produced. The tar file  for standard prereduced frames will all start with "STD", e.g.:  \begin{small}  \begin{verbatim}  LCO2013A-003_fts_20130727_56503.tar.gz  STD_fts_20130727_56503.tar.gz  \end{verbatim}  \end{small}  Each tar file will contain the following files:  \begin{small}  \begin{verbatim}  ESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1.fits (Trimmed raw red part of the science frame)  ESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_blue_2.0_56505_1.fits (Trimmed raw blue part of the science frame)  arc_ESO323G077_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1.fits (Trimmed raw red part of the arc frame)  arc_ESO323G077_fts_20130727_blue_2.0_56505_1.fits (Trimmed raw blue part of the arc frame)  flatESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1.fits (Trimmed raw red part of the flat frame)  flatESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_blue_2.0_56505_1.fits (Trimmed raw blue part of the flat frame)  ttESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1.fits (rectified red part of the science frame)  ttESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_blue_2.0_56505_1.fits (rectified blue part of the science frame)  ttarc_ESO323G077_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1.fits (rectified red part of the arc frame)  ttarc_ESO323G077_fts_20130727_blue_2.0_56505_1.fits (rectified blue part of the arc frame)  ttflatESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_blue_2.0_56505_1.fits (rectified blue part of the flat frame)  ttflatESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1.fits (rectified red part of the flat frame)  nttESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1.fits (flat-field corrected red part of the science frame)   ttESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_blue_2.0_56505_1_2df.fits (2D flux calibrated blue frame)  ttESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1_2df.fits (2D flux calibrated red frame)  nttESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_red_2.0_56505_1_2df.fits (2D flat-field corrected, flux calibrated red frame)  nttESO323G077_offset_fts_20130727_merge_2.0_56505_1_2df_ex.fits (fast reduction 1D spectrum)  \end{verbatim}  \end{small}  In summary, the extension ``\emph{2df}" indicates a flux calibrated  spectrum, the prefix ``\emph{tt}" indicates that the frame has been  geometrically \emph{transformed} along x- and y-axes, ``\emph{n}"  indicates that the frame has been flat field corrected. The typical  science name is composed (in order) of object name, telescope,  observation date, ``blue" or ``red" (indicating second or first order),  slit width, and MJD date when the reduction was performed.  The tar file also includes extra files to help the user understand  if the observations were performed correctly. It includes a pdf file  with the acquisition image and first guiding images,  together with some useful plots with information on the guiding and the  flux of the guiding star during the full exposure. An example of the  summary pdf file is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:summer}.   Filenames are of the form:  \begin{small}  \begin{verbatim}  LCO2013A-003_fts_20130727_56503.tar  LCO2013A-003_fts_20130727_56503.pdf  \end{verbatim}  \end{small}