ALICE workload status:

• Ported the code to ARM in December, ran into some issues which our experts fixed in a short time. 
  • The code is on CVMFS and since last week we have stable setup in multi arch configuration. 
  • CI produced new singularity / apptainer images for both x86 and arm that run fine in our test machine. 
• The load has been reduced to a maximum of 4 for our workload in order to meet the running condition of the benchmark which are different wrt the grid jobs. We have found no stability problems with such a load on our test machine. Needed to measure stability on machines with high number of cores.
• For what concerns the reco-only workflow instead of digi-reco, this does not bring additional benefits and it is less representative, so we decided to stay with digi reco workflow.
• What we could still aim to do is to provide a specific benchmark that runs on both CPU and GPU (TPC only reconstruction). This will require some effort of our GPU reconstruction experts to provide this.