LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

19-Dec-2012
10:30 - HH:MM
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Ben Couturier, Gloria Corti, Illya Shapoval, Marco Cattaneo, Marco Clemencic (minutes), Markus Frank, Stefan Lohn, Thomas Hartmann (Vidyo)

Subjects

News

• Hlt Workshop page will be circulated today

Issues from last meeting

• Coverity back in production
  • Marco Cl.: it was a misconfiguration (forgot to declare distcc)

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• Progress on CMake configuration
  • Bender, Vetra and Alignment can be built (some patches to be applied and configuration still to be committed)
  • Pending: Hlt, Moore, Online, Panoramix, Gauss
  • Waiting for the checkout script to be able to build regularly the head versions
• Need to modify the QMTest custom classes to produce CDash-compatible reports

Ben

• LbScripts v7r5 released (updated archive-project in place)
• New version of archive-project now archive the distribution files and reminds that CVMFS needs to be cleaned
• It looks like there is a problem with the latest release of Gauss (Gloria will check the task on savannah)

Gloria: we need to consider how to add the documentation of DecFiles.

Marco Ca.: we need to install everything on Online (we will use it for production).

Ben: we need for CVMFS the same kind of mechanism used for Online.

Gloria: do we have debug on CVMFS? Ben: no, we are still waiting for the dedicated volume.

Markus

• If we need to change the way software is deployed to the Online, we need a meeting with the sysadmins.

The discussion needs to extend to the deployment on the grid too... install_project, SetupProject etc.

Stefan

• Tried to run VTune regularly
  • it needed improvements to run faster
  • the new code will be committed soon

Thomas

• Working on script for patching the stack.
• Updating the documentation.

Illya

• ...(CondDB) Compatiblity Tracking System demo...

Marco Ca: we need a simple way to update the database (tools are available)

Ben: We could use this DB for the informations on the platforms and installations.

Marco Ca: we need to replace the "Data Type" with "Reconstruction Type"... the simulation has a similar problem. We need a discussion early next year.

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-- MarcoClemencic - 19-Dec-2012