Notes from (short) Techniocal meeting

VAC 

No Report

ATLAS 

Testing  pilots running singularity at Glasgow and is working. Glasgow are running on CentOS 6 whereas most people are running on CentOS 07.   Also a big push with NorduGrid sites.

Atlas are happy to run on straight, bar bones CentOS 7.

CMS

Not too much going on. Setting up a CPU inefficiency task force is being set up.

LHCb

No Report

GridPP Dirac

Nothing to report

Sites running VAC, clouds etc

There are problems running single and multicore VMs running on the same machine.

There will be a call for participation in the cloud-sig taskforce on HTC on clouds

Storage Evolution

Testing http third party copies seem to be having problems in testing in some configuration (especially when using davex but gfal seems to work).

There is also work going to test xrootd caching testing go on around the country.

Security

WLCG workshop will have a talk about the security aspects of singularity.