LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

04 Jun 2014
10:30 - 11:10
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Anastasia Karachaliou, Ben Couturier, Gloria Corti, Illya Shapoval, Joel Closier, Marco Cattaneo, Marco Clemencic (minutes), Markus Frank, Sebastien Binet (Vidyo), Sofia Qiriazi

Subjects

News

• LHCb Week in two weeks time
  • prepare the summaries of the Computing Workshop by the end of this week
• ROOT I/O workshop is approaching
  • Philippe Canal asked for contribution from LHCb (feedback, requirements, etc.)
  • Marco Ca.: we should worry about the TTree cache setting for WAN connections (currently optimized for disk/LAN). According to Markus our events are so small that the default settings are good enough to get ~100 events in the cache.
• Firewall will be open this week on the DEV JIRA instance.

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• Gaudi v25r2 tagged and built, but not yet installed on AFS.
  • Marco Ca.: next Gaudi release on ROOT 6 only (bump major versions of all projects)
• We can merge Sebastien's branches
  • ATLAS is testing Gaudi trunk in their MIG2 slot
• Migration of Gaudi from Savannah to Jira just completed.
• We should move CondDB Savannah should be migrated to SNOW (same as for the deployments).
  • To be tested first.

Illya

• Completed functionality to commit CondDB metadata to Ariadne.

Marco Ca.: Issues with the management of compatibilities for the Upgrade

Ben

• Released LbScripts v8r0 (dev), featuring lb-run etc.
• Added to possibility of flag the release request to the soft db.
• LbScripts Savannah migrated to Jira as a test.

Joel

• New version of LHCbDirac installed released yesterday (SLC6 only)
  • Ganga will be built on top of it.

Marco Cl.: what about the machines for Coverity?... pending

Anastasia

• Trying to write a test algorithm integrated with Gaudi/DD4Hep.

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-- MarcoClemencic - 04 Jun 2014