LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

29-May-2013
10:30 - 11:30
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

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

Apologies

Marco Cattaneo

Subjects

News

• Final agenda for CHEP 2013
• LCG 65 has been announced
• Nightly builds moved to the new system
• No meeting next week (LHCb Collaboration Week)

Issues in JIRA

• for the meeting

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• Working on a new dashboard for the nightly builds prototype at https://lbtestbuild.cern.ch/nightlies/
• Modified StalledEventMonitor to print a stack trace and abort the execution. LHCBGAUSS-17
• Preparing the release of Gaudi v23r8

Joel

• Cleaned up Quattor templates for the build machines.
• Added Java7 on SLC6 (for Neo4J).
• CVMFS installed on all the nodes in the Online and updated the Presenter to use CVMFS.

Gloria

• Can we backport the new StalledEventMonitor to old versions of Gauss?
  It depends on the version of Gaudi, it might require a branch of GaudiUtils.

Stefan

• Improving the visualization of LHCbPR.
• Working in collaboration with Online team to profile HTL1.

Ben

• Will build externals tarball for LCG 65.
• Still some complaints on SLC6 (this time with the SLC5 version of libuuid).
• Working on the prototype for the software releases database.

Illya

• Working on rolling out of Ariadne system
  • the major issue is integration with the release procedure
  • will use the new stable version of Neo4J

Marco Cl.: is there an IT-provided way to back up voboxes? Joel will raise the questions with IT.

Rob

• We need to try make Online and Offline usage more uniform.

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-- MarcoClemencic - 29-May-2013