LHCb Core Software Meeting
Date and Location
10-Apr-2013
10:30 - 11:30
CERN (2-R-030)
Attendees
Ben Couturier,
Gloria Corti,
Illya Shapoval,
Joel Closier,
Liang Sun,
Marco Cattaneo,
Marco Clemencic (minutes),
Stefan Lohn
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.
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MarcoClemencic - 10-Apr-2013