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).
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.
--
MarcoClemencic - 04 Jun 2014