4th Quattor Workshop

Name: 4th Quattor Workshop
Start: 2007-10-29T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2007-10-30T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

29 Oct 2007, 09:00 → 30 Oct 2007, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

Facultad de Ciencias, C-XI-201 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Facultad de Ciencias, C-XI-201

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Carretera de Colmenar KM 15, Madrid, Spain

Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (UAM)

Description

This workshop brings together developers and advanced users of Quattor. The aim is to share experiences and to discuss the roadmap for Quattor development.

Support

mejias@delta.ft.uam.es

Participants

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Monday 29 October
- Mon 29 Oct
- Tue 30 Oct
- Introduction
  - 1
    
    Welcome
    
    Speaker: Jose Del Peso (Departam.de Fisica Teorica)
  - 2
    
    CERN status
    
    Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN/INFN-CNAF)
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    LAL status
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    NIKHEF status
    
    Speaker: Ronald Starink (Unknown)
    
    Slides
  - 5
    
    Grid-Ireland status
    
    Speaker: Dr Stephen Childs (Trinity College Dublin)
    
    Slides
  - 6
    
    PIC status
    
    Speaker: Mr Marc Rodríguez Espadamala (PIC)
  - 7
    
    UAM status
  - 8
    
    Morgan-Stanley status
    
    Speaker: Nick Williams (Morgan Stanley)
  - 9
    
    Philips status
  - 10
    
    CNAF status report
    
    Speaker: Andrea Chierici (Unknown)
    
    Slides
- 11:15
  
  Coffee
- Quattor core developments
  - 11
    
    Pan Compiler
    
    Speaker: Cal Loomis (CNRS/LAL)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    CDB status and extensions
    
    Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN/INFN-CNAF)
    
    Slides
  - 13
    
    SCDB status
    
    Speaker: Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    
    Other core modules report
    
    Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN/INFN-CNAF)
    
    Slides
- 13:40
  
  Lunch
- Quattor developments
  - 15
    
    QWG status
    
    Speaker: Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)
    
    Slides
  - 16
    
    Xen and enclosures
    
    Speaker: Dr Stephen Childs (Trinity College Dublin)
    
    Slides
- 16:00
  
  Coffee
- Block device and filesystem layout changes
  - 17
    
    Defining filesystems and block devices
    
    Tim Bell's and Andras Horvath's proposal on filesystem definition will be revisited. Then, it will be explained how their proposal was modified when implementing it.
    
    Speaker: Mr Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (UAM)
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    NCM filesystems component
    
    During last workshop, Xen discussion raised an interesting issue: can Quattor create block devices and export them for Xen virtual machines?
    
    The filesystems component addresses this issue, and some other improvements asked on Savannah
    
    Speaker: Mr Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Facultad de Ciencias - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    AII status report
    
    Report of AII developments, and the integration of the new block devices layout.
    
    Speaker: Mr Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (Facultad de Ciencias - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
    
    Slides
Tuesday 30 October
- Mon 29 Oct
- Tue 30 Oct
- Progress review
  - 20
    
    Review open Savannah bugs
    
    We will discuss the most outstanding bugs on Savannah, including who they should be assigned to.
  - 21
    
    Documentation
    
    Discussion on documentation infrastructure on Quattor and Quattor's official page
- 11:00
  
  Coffee
- Core tools and components: Process review
  - 22
    
    Release process
    
    Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN/INFN-CNAF)
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    Component adoption lottery
    
    There are several important modules on Quattor's CVS whose author and maintainer left the project. For these modules, new maintainers must be assigned or the component must be deprecated.
- 13:30
  
  Lunch
- Wrap-up