Architects Forum Meeting
Dial-in numbers: 71400 (CERN), +41227671400
Vidyo meeting Numeric Extension: 10287102
Present: Patricia Mendez Lorenzo, Charles Delort, Geri Ganis, Benedikt Hegner, Michael (IT), Alejandro (IT), Giulio Eulisse, Graeme Stewart, Jakob Blomer, Marco Cattaneo, Walter Lampl, Gerardo Ganis, Gabriele Cosmo, David Lange
Excused: Pere Mato, Patricia Mendez Lorenzo
Line Management Issues (Gerri)
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Two new people in the group - Enric started as staff
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Technical student in CernVM. Docker interface consolidation
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Plan of work of the SFT teams presented as of 1st of March.
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EP R&D working group chaired by Jakob and Graeme. Kick of took place
Report from the LIM Meeting
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Preparing the 93 release
Status of Projects
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CERNVM
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CernVM workshop last week. Quite happy. Feedback from experiments. Immediate items - new CernVM image. Meltdown / spectre fixes cost a lot of time for testing CVMFS 2.5. Release in a month
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Pleasant surprise that we know what users want and do.
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Faster and easier publication would be good. Requires talking to IT. maybe SSD back
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Giulio: was the point of smaller granularity in permissions mentioned? J: a few developments. User name space. Portals. S3 endpoint for a particular area. Pushing tarballs into the area. Porjh
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Simulation
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Since last time working on new patch to 10.4. Preparing the work plan for 2018. Migrating to gitlab within two/three months.
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Request from LHCb and FCC to have latest releases of Geant4 in LCG releases. Plus latest VecGeom. LHCb moving to 10.3.
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LHCb comment: builds on very latest compilers would be useful
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Giulio: why gitlab and not github? → Control system; granular control of access; public releaes mirrored to github anyhow
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Persistency
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3.2.0 as new CORAL/COOL. Qt4 to Qt5 migration.
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ROOT
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Tag in preparation 6.12 frozen yesterday. Planning meeting on wednesday
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Experiments’ Feedback
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ALICE
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Finally moving to root 6 in production releases. Business as usual A few bugs discovered and fixed.
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LHCb
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Nothing special. Split software in two main branches. 2018 data taking and beyond for analysis; latest/greatest for everything; trigger as focus now.;
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Plenty of hackathons. Huge improvements in SW by looking closer at things.
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ATLAS
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Two branches for future and data taking. Reprocessing for conditions update. Master branch working towards AthenaMT. LCG 92 recompile linker problem. New linker, but not shipped with lcg itself.
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RPM containing binutils provided by Patricia. Various other problems.
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CMS
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Nothing to report
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Working on production releases
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IT
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NTR
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Meltdown advice
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Question by marco: ITUM move to CentOS7 presented. Maybe something more modern by 2020?
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HSF
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Published CWP in December; still gathering signatures
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Workshop in Naples advert
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Other news: packaging group is rather active in writing use cases. More news on that later.
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