LHCb Core Software Meeting

Date and Location

2015-11-25
10:30 - HH:MM
CERN (2-R-030)

Attendees

Ben Couturier, Gerhard Raven (Vidyo), Gloria Corti, Illya Shapoval, Joel Closier, Liang Sun, Marco Cattaneo, Marco Clemencic (minutes), Markus Frank, Paul Seyfert (Vidyo)

Subjects

News

• LCG 81 being prepared
• Marco Cl. will prepare presentations on git use and workflows
  • a first meeting on Wednesday (Core Software slot) with git mini tutorial and workflows proposals
  • at the Tuesday meeting on the 15th of December more focused on the workflows

Ben started collecting use cases that will help us defining practical workflows: LbSoftUseCases.

Study on ROOT compression algorithms

Interesting results.

To

Round Table

Marco

• Nightlies
  • another (more successful) attempt to ccache
  • one slc5 machine can be moved to slc6
  • to review the use of lhcb-trigger* slots

Joel

• lxbuild119 retired
  • finalized the puppet templates

Gloria

• Presentation next week on the simulation FSR
• Some work on fast simulation, to be followed up how to integrate it in Gaudi

Ben

• Started working on the new chain for LHCbPR2
• Mika prepared some test jobs that will run in the old LHCbPR
• Security issue with automatically created .rhost files. New release of LbScript to remove the
• Started trying the build of Geant4.10.

Illya

• Interesting possibility of development on the scheduling machinery in GaudiHive.

Gerhard: we should invite hpx

Gerhad

• Trying to

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-- MarcoClemencic - 2015-11-25