LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

24-Apr-2013
10:30 - HH:MM
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Ben Couturier, Emmanouil Kiagias, Gloria Corti, Illya Shapoval, Joel Closier, Liang Sun, Marco Cattaneo, Marco Clemencic (minutes), Markus Frank, Rob Lambert (Vidyo), Stefan Lohn

Subjects

News

• Forum on Concurrent Programming Models and Frameworks today
  • Danilo reporting on GaudiHive
  • Vijay reporting on ARM
• From LIM
  • CMake-based build of the externals ready for the supported platforms
  • Now that the full set of externals can be build in few hours, SFT is planning a different deployment model for LCG stack: one directory with everything (bin, lib, etc.) per version of LCG(CMT) LBCORE-117
  • LCGCMT 65 almost ready: gcc 4.7 (c++11), VDT, etc.
  • Geant 4 new release with the multi-threading version available for testing
• Migration from Savannah to JIRA
  • identified the projects to be migrated
  • few different use cases will have to be tested
  • Marco Cl. folllowing up with Benedikt
• Discussion on packaging of SFT-provided software
  • Pere is suggesting to use everywhere CVMFS and stop packaging
  • there are pros and cons, Ben will follow up preparing arguments for the discussion
• New LbScripts released
• Issues for the migration from SLC5 to SLC6
  • at the moment we cannot build SLC5 binaries on SLC6 to run them on SLC5 LBCORE-100
  • running on SLC6 seems to require more memory than on SLC5

Presentation on LHCbPR project (Emmanouil)

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• New Nightly Builds
  • migrated the LHCb-hosted git repository to the central CERN git service (renamed LHCbNightlies2 to LbNightlyTools)
  • moved the lhcb-patches# slots to the new system, but the resources are not well partitioned because of the cohexsistence with the old system
  • waiting for the move of Jenkins to lxbuild119 before completing the migration
• Using the CMake configuration files to build the externals on ARM (Raspberry Pi), slow and requires debugging

Gloria

• Problems with group login on SLC6 desktop

Marco Ca.

• Reshuffling the agenda for the Computing Workshop
• Will ask help for conveening the session

Illya

• New SQLDDDB release (for Ariadne)
• Ariadne used to configure one LoadDDDB test in the nightlies

Liang

• We need to test the compressed database in the nightlies. We will switch today.

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-- MarcoClemencic - 24-Apr-2013