LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

2014-11-19
10:30 - 11:30
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Anastasia Karachaliou, Ben Couturier, Illya Shapoval, Joel Closier, Liang Sun, Marco Cattaneo, Marco Clemencic (minutes), Sofia Qiriazi

Apologies

Markus Frank

Subjects

News

• Some physical machines (mainly SLC5) have to be retired
  • lxbuild159 is used for Neo4J test instance, but it can be moved to a VM
  • we should try to use the VMs only for the minimum required time
• ISIMA
  • one possible candidate to work on Jenkins
  • somebody to convert Dirac build to pip
  • Ben preselected 3 CVs
• Linux certification meeting
  • they understood that they have to decouple the OS from the experiments: they do their migrations and we do it at our pace
  • complaints about lxplus being slow

Round Table

Marco Cl.

• CMake
  • some improvements
  • fixed a few projects (Online, Urania, Geant4)
• Nightly builds
  • since Monday lhcb-gaudi-head is build with CMake
  • integrated the builds of LHCbDirac and Dirac
  • we need to reorganize the slots
    • remove lhcb-cmake and lhcb-root6, keep lhcb-no-reflex and rename it lhcb-root5 when the release is done

Joel

• Ben working on LHCbGrid packaging with RPM
• Issues last wee with users using eosmount to access data

Liang

• Marco Ca.: we need to completed the commissioning of the conddb system after the test run (including remove the redundant Oracle instance)

Ben

• Fixed mkLCGCMTtar from RPM
• We need to check (and fix) the RPMs of LHCbDirac and Dirac
• Problem with SFT: they provide RPMs only for what they build, but we need others too
  • prepared a script to package anything that is in sw/lcg
• Improved/fixed lb-sdb-importsvn, still to automatically flag new projects for release
• Required to prepare debug RPMs and tar files for externals
• Working only running Hlt and publish infos to LHCbPR

Marco Ca.

• Stripping 21 saga not over yet: some crazy event

Illya

• Helping Mauro Morandin for the preparation of Center of Excellence project

Anastasia

• Integration of Gaudi messaging with DD4hep
• Working on a more complex geometry for testing

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-- MarcoClemencic - 2014-11-19