LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

19-Jun-2013

Attendees

Subjects

News

• LIM
  • discussion on the new installation scheme: to be confirmed by ATLAS, but we will get something similar with what is already there (possibly with some kind of optional InstallArea)
• ITUM on Monday

Discussion about GIT support in LHCb: we are not going to support GIT for analysis.

Round Table

Joel

• Asked LCG people to get bindings for Python 2.7 for the middleware, but the question is if we need them for SLC5 and/or SLC6.
  • we will need both as long as we have SLC5 resources on the Grid
• Received instructions to set-up Tivoli backup on lxbuild119 (buildlhcb).

Marco Cl.

• Nightlies
  • machine occupation improved after the tuning discussed at last meeting
  • improvements to the new dashboard ([http://lbtestbuild.cern.ch/nightlies/]), some more work needed, but it could be put in production soon
• ROOT 6 preparation
  • managed to run Gaudi and LHCb tests without PyCintex (using PyROOT instead), but it requires some hacks that should be implemented in ROOT (Wim is working on it)

Illya

• Ariadne update, see LBCORE-28.
• Added a TOOLS package to distribute the Ariadne code and prepare the environment for the Python modules. A wrapper will be added to LbScripts to simplify the access to the tools.
• Waiting for a confirmation from Gloria to start the switch.

Marco Ca.

• Chris has been fighting against a dictionary generation problem (reported on Savannah).
  • We need a test to write/read every event model class, which will help in the validation of ROOT 6.

Markus

• New release of Online: Markus testing versions. It should not be picked up by subdetectors.

-- MarcoClemencic - 19-Jun-2013