HEPiX Virtualisation Working Group Meeting

Monday 23 May 2011, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

31/S-027 (CERN)

Tony Cass

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HEPiX Virtulisation WG meeting minutes 2011-05-23

Present (in no particular order):
Tony Cass, CERN
Balmero, CERN
Thomas Finnern, DESY
Owen Synge, DESY
Ian Gable, University of Victoria
Romain Wartel, CERN
Ian Collier, RAL
Keith Chadwick, FNAL
Jie Tao, KIT
David Kelsey, RAL
Martin Bly, RAL

1. Previous meeting minutes

• Tony commented that most important conclusion is that we need to work together to achieve an end to end test.
• The result of the doddle poll was work days on June 1 and June 15th. There were no objections.

2. Progress on image exchange

• Owen has released a new version of his subscription software with several improvements and bug fixes.
• Tony asked Cal today what the status of the marketplace.
• Michel commented that the 1.0 release of stratuslab is approaching in th next week or two.

3. EGI Conference

Michel:

• There was a lot of discussion not a lot of decisions.
• It was a meeting where StratusLab was cited in every talk, and every 15 mins.
• The work we(HEPiX vwg) were doing was well received. The idea of trusted virtual machines was quite important to many people.
• Several of the people organizing the meeting were aware of what we are doing and commented that is was worth while.

Owen:

• The conference was intended to bring users, resources providers, and developers together.
• Virtualization was a bit of afterthought, and the main subject was IaaS.
• The discussion was that they weren't going to tie themselves to OpenNebula, and must consider alternatives like OpenStack.
• Owen felt that users were underrepresented.
• The UK seems to be funding  based on pay per use for clouds. The users would pay based on how long the virtual machines were up.
• Ian Colier commented oxford NGS cloud is focused on providing a proof of concept. This proposal to give the money to the users is just a proposals.
• Owen mentioned Ian Bird commented without batch queue clouds were less useful. (Michel not sure if this was Ian Birds complete message)

4. AOB.

• Tony commented that ATLAS had a workshop related to clouds and virtualization two weeks ago.
• Tony commented that ATLAS has a CernVM image that connects to their pilot job system.
• Ulrich commented that he has received a new special CernVM image from Predrag
• There will be a room available for the working group during the July 11 WLCG meeting

5. Next meeting

• June 27th next meeting

16:00 → 16:05 Previous Minutes

Minutes https://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?resId=minutes&materialId=minutes&confId=138551

16:05 → 16:25 Image cataloguing and exchange: progress and plans

16:50 → 16:55 Date & Agenda for next meeting

Next Meeting: ?? ?? @ 15:00 UTC. (16:00 CET)