LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

28-Aug-2013
10:30 - HH:MM
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

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

Subjects

News

• Illya will present Ariadne next week
• Joel: grid middleware Python bindings for Python 2.7 should be ready soon

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• Fixed CondDBCompression issue with Stripping applications (LBCORE-238)
• Nightly Builds
  • Restored "headofeverything" feature (LBCORE-240)
  • We can build releases with the nightly build system, but we need to validate the products: how to do it?
• ROOT 6 Test Status
  • Reflex Plugin service replaced with a ROOT-free one, tested in the nightlies
  • Testing new genreflex but there are unrelated problems with genconf (segfault in a destructor in ROOT)
• CMake
  • Trying to build Geant4 with CMake in the nightlies, but, it seems, there is a problem with CTest.

Marco Ca.: request for new stack soon; are there changes in Gaudi? not really

Joel

• DIrac is using the the same Jenkins ash the nightlies.
• We may have a new project for the Virtual infrastructure: BeautyDirac
• We need to reboot SLC5 build machines to upgrade the OS

Markus

• Problem with mmapped deleted temporary files, probably due to SQLite.
  Marco Cl. will follow it up with Markus.

Gloria

• What is the status of the changes in the notification policies in JIRA?
  Ben will check.
• Decoupling of the Generators : LHAPDF now moved to a data package.
• We need to feed back to SFT some interface packages (will be sent to Benedikt and Victor).

Ben

• New web application for the radiation maps.
  • old app written in C++ that took a bit to compile (strong requirements on ROOT and Boost versions)
    Gloria: we should draft recommendations for web applications
• Working to integrate Valgrind and Massif in LHCbPR
• Issue with ICC13: LbLogin -c does not set up the environment correctly
• We should drop gcc47 and move directly to gcc48; to check with SFT, but we can do it in the next stack.

Stefan

• Many changes to LHCbPR to be deployed.
  Ben: we should push them to the dev instance.

Liang

• Testing the JIRA configuration for CondDB patches.

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-- MarcoClemencic - 28-Aug-2013