Architects Forum Meeting

Europe/Zurich
32/S-C22 (CERN)

32/S-C22

CERN

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Description

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)

  • Two new people in the group - Enric started as staff

  • Technical student in CernVM. Docker interface consolidation

  • Plan of work of the SFT teams presented as of 1st of March.

  • EP R&D working group chaired by Jakob and Graeme. Kick of took place

Report from the LIM Meeting

  • Preparing the 93 release

Status of Projects

  • CERNVM

    • 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

    • Pleasant surprise that we know what users want and do.

      • Faster and easier publication would be good. Requires talking to IT. maybe SSD back

      • 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

  • Simulation

    • Since last time working on new patch to 10.4. Preparing the work plan for 2018. Migrating to gitlab within two/three months.

    • Request from LHCb and FCC to have latest releases of Geant4 in LCG releases. Plus latest VecGeom. LHCb moving to 10.3.

    • LHCb comment: builds on very latest compilers would be useful

    • Giulio: why gitlab and not github? → Control system; granular control of access; public releaes mirrored to github anyhow

  • Persistency

    • 3.2.0 as new CORAL/COOL. Qt4 to Qt5 migration.

  • ROOT

    • Tag in preparation 6.12 frozen yesterday. Planning meeting on wednesday

 

Experiments’ Feedback

  • ALICE

    • Finally moving to root 6 in production releases. Business as usual A few bugs discovered and fixed.

  • LHCb

    • Nothing special. Split software in two main branches. 2018 data taking and beyond for analysis; latest/greatest for everything; trigger as focus now.;

    • Plenty of hackathons. Huge improvements in SW by looking closer at things.

  • ATLAS

    • 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.

    • RPM containing binutils provided by Patricia. Various other problems.

  • CMS

    • Nothing to report

    • Working on production releases

 

  • IT

    • NTR

    • Meltdown advice

    • Question by marco: ITUM move to CentOS7 presented. Maybe something more modern by 2020?

  • HSF

    • Published CWP in December; still gathering signatures

    • Workshop in Naples advert

    • Other news: packaging group is rather active in writing use cases. More news on that later.

There are minutes attached to this event. Show them.
    • 14:00 14:10
      Report from the LIM meeting 10m
      Speaker: Dr Patricia Mendez Lorenzo (CERN)
    • 14:10 14:20
      Status of Projects 10m
    • 14:20 14:30
      Experiments Feedback 10m