Architects’ Forum Notes
Present: Pere Mato, Jakob Blomer, Patricia Mendez Lorenzo, Gabriele Cosmo, Graeme Stewart, Walter Lampl, Benedikt Hegner
Excused:
Two hirings for librarians in ATLAS / CMS. July 1st and September 1st. Current librarians have been hired.
Extension for one fellow and two new hires
IT technical forum presentation on SFT activities
R&D activity 18th of May for first set of proposals. Budget envelope is 5M / year for *all* activities. Two more rounds to refine project proposals. 2nd workshop end of September.
Next Wednesday proposals will be presented to get wider feedback.
Latest version of gcc today
Almost completed all packages for LLVM (5 missing).
Complete clang build for 94 release anticipated
First Ubuntu 18 machine added to cluster, currently used for ROOT test
Working on deprecating QT WebEngine, but still used by one package that BE need
93 patch prepared for ATLAS
93a removed from CVMFS because of problems with ROOT. New build ongoing
Librarians and Integrators Workshop on May 30. Please register!
CERNVM
CVMFS 2.5 is tagged. Will go into grid wide testing
No news for CernVM
Simulation
New montly development release this week.
10.4patch2 being prepared
CMS is using
FCC in production
ATLAS is testing
Persistency
Not present
ROOT
Not present
ALICE
Not present
LHCb
See email
ATLAS
93a for development branch
Q: 94 usage? A: for master
CMS
Not present
CLIC
Not present
IT
Firewall upgrades yesterday and todayt
8 to 9th of may maintenance for wigner link
SSO with github credentials? -> system under rewrite. Current system MS active directory does not allow github connection
Keycloak as new solution
HSF
R&D from Naples being pursued, e.g., training meeting a few weeks ago.
PyHEP workshop being organised pre-CHEP; there will also be a Birds of a Feather session on Frameworks (Paolo, Jim, Charles organising).
HSF meeting on licensing next week, Wednesday 9 May at 17h.
IT R&D meeting in May?
Next meeting June 14th.