LHCb Core Software Meeting
Date and Location
06. September 2006
10:00 - 11:30
CERN (2-R-030)
Attendees
Andres (phone),
Florence,
Gloria,
Greig (phone),
Hubert,
Joel,
Juan,
Marco Ca.,
Marco Cl. (minutes),
Markus,
Nicolas,
Philippe
Apologies
Nick,
Stefan
Subjects
News
Philippe about the Architects Forum
- LCG 47 with ROOT 5.13, new SEAL (bugfix), Qt4 and pyQt4 available soon
- Fixes for gcc323 requested (still missing)
- SLC4 uses gcc 3.4.6 instead of 3.4.5, the platform tag will be renamed to slc4_ia32_gcc34
- Castor2 client library will not be released for Windows
- rfio protocol exists in 2 flavors: a new ccommon version of libshift will be released, which will support both protocols through plugins
- Application Area internal review after LHCb week. Reviewers for LHCb: Marco Cl. ( who replaces Marco Ca.) and Gerard
Marco Cl.: we need a map of protocols, URLs and libraries. Philippe volunteers to prepare a map while waiting from an official one.
Software Releases
Gaudi (Hubert)
- v18r7 released * all changes mentioned last week * fix in ToolSvc * G.O.D. removed (included in LHCb)
- Monitoring service implementation by Ben King doesn't compile on win32
- Problem with ROOT GFAL plugin: globus rls dir contained both optimized and debug versions, the plugin was linked against dbg version, which was then deleted
LHCb, Boole, Brunel (Marco Ca.)
Built everything
- Boole
- Couple of bugfixes (RICH summary)
- Serious bug in L0 Calo, it needs to be rerun in DaVinci if needed
- Velo test beam code depends on Boole, the needed package will be moved to LbCom to avoit the dependency
Gauss (Gloria)
- Latest version of Gauss released of Friday. No failure messages arrived from the production yet
- Building Gauss on SLC4. It needs fixes and the build of GENSER
DaVinci (Juan)
- New release:
- Olivier D. provided the code for ?0 particle making
- Loki changed to support new particles
- internal changes in CALO particles
- Implemented tests using cppunits in a generic way.
Marco Cl. asked if they can have a chat about it because he wanted something similar.
Round Table
- Andres and Greig
- They managed to modify the StagerSvc to use gfal, but they have technical problems to implement the pre-staging.
- Markus
- Tried to reduce the number of files of GaudiPI. 6 files are needed for histograms, but the analysis factory bringsin all the rest.
We agreed that we want only histograms.
- Florence
- Almost ready with new CMT. Working on install area for include files.
- Marco Ca.
- Re-deploying DataOnDemand using map properties.
Velo needs a backward incompatible change in XmlDDDB. It should be handled with CondDB versioning. Marco Cl. said that in a few of weeks we can deploy an SQLite file instead of XML (few details to be sorted out).
- Gloria
- Job option directive #print doesn't work anymore. It should be added to the new JobOptionSvc.
- Marco Cl.
- Few changes in DetCond. Mainly a bugfix and a second thread that disconnects from the DB after a long idle period (off by default).
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MarcoClemencic - 11 Sep 2006