New Luis and New John have accepted our offers, we are working on getting their visa's and hope to get them to Fermilab in July so we can have overlap in these positions.
there may be a re-running of miniaod, high IO but low cpu time, 1.5 billion events
Dima: I don't know where this information is coming from. PPD has no plans to do miniAOD on MC in near future (we just produced that). Anyway, the only real issue that we may have with miniAOD campaigns is to have a proper setup to handle it, which is not very different from DigiReco. I/O load should be much smaller for miniAOD since we don't need to read hundreds of minbias events per one collision event as we do for DigiReco.
We are back to needing US operators, with data taking starting again, we need to look over what we are doing and possibly re-define roles
Dima: we are trying to shift some responsibilities to the central computing shifters. Christoph Wissing needs to test the instructions and integrate them.