SPI project meeting

Tuesday 11 May 2010, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

32-SC-22 (Bldg 32)

Stefan Roiser (CERN)

The weekly meeting of the Software Process and Infrastructure project of the LCG/AA.

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Ana Gaspar

+ Actions done
- Set up virtual machine for the nightlies
- Abstract for CHEP
- Installed gccxml-0.9.0_20100428
- Installed frontier_client 2.7.14
- Added links for the errors at the beginning of the log files (not only for make errors)
- Added scheduled task to synchronize the externals on the windows machines
- Installed pygraphics 1.1 (python 2.5 and 2.6) with the latests versions for sip, qt and pyqt
- Installed pyanalysis 1.2  (python 2.5 and 2.6) with pyminuit2 and sympy, json and storm
- Installed expat 1.95.8
- Reduced the number of threads used per platform to increase the number or parallel platforms running simultaneously, now are running at the same time as many platforms as the half of cores the machine has.
- Added the branches coverage to the coverage platform

+ Next actions
- Installation of python 2.6.5
- Installation of mysql 5.1.45
- Installation of multiprocessing
- Add debug information to the server to prevent new failures from the database
- Put in production the changes made by Karol in the nightlies scripts

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Carlos
+ Actions done
- Two windows hosts created for testing VS7 and on
- Two new physical computers are available in 157-R-008:
    pcphsft06.cern.ch: SLC4X for savannah development
    pcphsft16.cern.ch: SLC5X for data operations

+ Next actions
- In discussions to grow the current capacity of the infrastructure:
  * Define a plan for new HW acquisition from CC for Savannah
  * Define HW profiles to upgrade to, for CernVM and SFT virtual servers

+ Problems
- No track of recent activity

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Stefan Roiser

+ Actions done
- working with gcc 4.5 plugins and gccxml. Check the feasibility of using the new gcc plugin mechanism for the gccxml tool
- release of LCG 58c, fixing a problem with the LFC plugin library of CORAL
- release of LCG 56g, this contains a fix for the expat versions (now in sync throughout AA), all stack on Mac 10.6, and the new python module groups
- check with IT/ES group on how to test the nightlies on the grid, this should allow us to check compatibility issues with grid nodes running not supported OSes
- create new LCGCMT branch for checking LCG 56 series with Python 2.6


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15:00 → 15:10 News

15:10 → 15:40 Round table

15:40 → 16:00 Aob