LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

10-Apr-2013

Attendees

Subjects

News

• Gaudi v23r7 released
• LIM
  • gcc 4.8 will be added, but can we drop gcc 4.3? not yet, Gauss being validated on gcc46, they shoud drop i686 first
• AF tomorrow
  • Grid middleware: new FTS3 depends on Boost, but there are problem integrating with LCG externals (for LIM)
• Summer students
  • Joel, Marco Cl., plus a non-member state on the Masterclass project (more physics than computing)
• Marco Ca.: request feed back
• Illya: workshop at Desy on GPUs etc.
• Joel: meeting two weeks ago about Oracle and the new licensing policies
  • discussion about the possibility of moving applications away from Oracle
• Joel: lxplus alias to be switched to slc6 in two weeks (Ganga is still missing)

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• Nightly Build System status
  • improved (take the list of platforms from the configuration file)
  • failure this morning because of a typo (fixed and restarted)
  • planning for production
• LBCORE-24: build nightlies on CVMFS, problem with Gauss + Genser

Marco Ca.: Coverity nightly seems not to have worked. Check and add an alarm.

Gloria:

Stefan

• Working with VTune profiling of Gaudi
• Adding handler for memory and VTune in LHCbPR
• Testinf new compiler, but volhcb34 needs to be moved to slc6

--++ Marco Ca.

• Philippe has been migrating files from CASTOR to EOS, including files required by QMTest tests.
  • Philippe will create a special space token to decouple special files from the production sets (so that they are not deleted when cleaning up)
  • We should have a special private file catalog for testing in PRConfig (Marco Ca. will do it).

Gloria

• Attempt of a fix for Gauss hanging.
• Emmanouil is going to leave at the end of the month, so he should present the work at the Core software meeting.

Illya

• CondDB new web portal in production.
• Will need a new SQLDDDB for the portal and for the deployment system.
• Several improvements in the Ariadne system
  • Apache will shield both Jenkins and Neo4J (administration and command line administration), will tell Joel to add the configuration to the template
  • XML-RPC interface to the Neo4J to have world readable queries.
  • Implemented user access to Neo4J in CondDB package

Liang

• Some updates to CondDBUI to support compressed database. Almost ready for production.

-- MarcoClemencic - 10-Apr-2013