4th Quattor Workshop

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

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

Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías (UAM)

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

Monday, 29 October

09:30 → 11:15 Introduction

09:30 Welcome

Speaker: Jose Del Peso (Departam.de Fisica Teorica)

09:40 CERN status

Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN/INFN-CNAF)

Slides quattor-cern-site-status-10-07.odp quattor-cern-site-status-10-07.pdf

09:50 LAL status

Slides Site_Report.pdf Site_Report.ppt

10:00 NIKHEF status

Speaker: Ronald Starink (Unknown)

Slides QWG-Oct-2007.odp QWG-Oct-2007.pdf

10:10 Grid-Ireland status

Speaker: Dr Stephen Childs (Trinity College Dublin)

Slides grid_ireland_usage_oct_07.pdf grid_ireland_usage_oct_07.ppt

10:20 PIC status

Speaker: Mr Marc Rodríguez Espadamala (PIC)

10:30 UAM status

10:40 Morgan-Stanley status

Speaker: Nick Williams (Morgan Stanley)

10:50 Philips status

11:00 CNAF status report

Speaker: Andrea Chierici (Unknown)

Slides 20071029_-_CNAF-T1_Quattor.pdf 20071029_-_CNAF-T1_Quattor.ppt

11:15 → 11:35 Coffee

11:35 → 13:40 Quattor core developments

11:35 Pan Compiler

Speaker: Cal Loomis (CNRS/LAL)

Slides 20072910-panc.pdf 20072910-panc.ppt

12:05 CDB status and extensions

Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN/INFN-CNAF)

Slides cdb-evolution-part4.odp cdb-evolution-part4.pdf

12:50 SCDB status

Speaker: Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)

Slides SCDB.pdf SCDB.ppt

13:20 Other core modules report

Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN/INFN-CNAF)

Slides quattor-core-modules-status-10-07.odp quattor-core-modules-status-10-07.pdf

13:40 → 14:40 Lunch

14:40 → 16:00 Quattor developments

14:40 QWG status

Speaker: Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)

Slides QWG.pdf QWG.ppt

15:10 Xen and enclosures

Speaker: Dr Stephen Childs (Trinity College Dublin)

Slides xen_and_enclosures.pdf xen_and_enclosures.ppt

16:00 → 16:15 Coffee

16:15 → 18:00 Block device and filesystem layout changes

16:15 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 blockdev.odp

16:45 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 ncmfs.odp

16:55 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 aiiv2.odp

Tuesday, 30 October

09:30 → 11:00 Progress review

09:30 Review open Savannah bugs

We will discuss the most outstanding bugs on Savannah, including who they should be assigned to.

10:30 Documentation

Discussion on documentation infrastructure on Quattor and Quattor's official page

11:00 → 11:20 Coffee

11:20 → 13:30 Core tools and components: Process review

11:20 Release process

Speaker: Marco Emilio Poleggi (CERN/INFN-CNAF)

Slides quattor-release-process.odp quattor-release-process.pdf

11:40 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 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:30 Wrap-up