Upcoming meetings (as from GDB introduction )
Andrea Sciaba' and Manfred Alef will be there and Manfred is going to submit a status report
Andrea Valassi will be there
CHEP Proceedings deadline: 14th Feb.
Andrea will work on it next week and present something
Outreach
D. Giordano will present the HEP-Benchmarks activity to the CERN Openlab Technical Workshop
https://indico.cern.ch/event/853334/timetable/#20200122.detailed
Invited by Openlab, will present something similar to what has been presented at CHEP by Andrea
Olga will speak in a workshop on Data Preservation al CERN
Support mailing list
A new support list (open) has been created hep-benchmarks-supportATcern.ch
The developers list is member of that list and can receive requests.
Presentatiion from Luis F. Alvarez on the usage of our suite in the batch group.
not interested in benchmarking HW under ideal conditions, like procurement teams does. They want to see what happens in a setup similar to production and to spot differences in performances of a VM. In an example they compared using VM wrt using baremetal. Since VM are pinned to NUMA nodes the VM performed better. So they implemented a NUMA aware setup also on Physical nodes using cpuset to confine each daemon
They found it that very little effort is needd to start using our suite
They were using singularities that worked better with Condor because of protection issues. They are interested in continuing using our suite and proposed some requirements or enhancement that would be useful to them. We are also interested in having the possibility to use K8 to submit chaotic workloads to simulate real life situations.
Presentation from Martina on new parser.
Python comes with a module which provides the infrastructure for defining Abstract Base Classes (ABCs). This module is called - for obvious reasons - abc. A class that is derived from an abstract class cannot be instantiated unless all of its abstract methods are overridde
Martina proposes a common parser using abc with advanted, common structure of the json, write all result in a common notation,
Next meeting on Friday 24th, will be shorted because of a meeting in the IT division