IT-protoDUNE coordination (Single Phase and Double Phase)

Thursday 3 Sept 2020, 15:00 → 16:15 Europe/Zurich

vidyo

Ignacio Coterillo Coz (CERN)

Coordination: JIRA, Minutes, etc. https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/viewauth/ProDUNEIT/WebHome

Present: Steven, Ignacio, Elisabetta, Pablo (minutes), Xavi

Denis sent his apologies:

 

Ignacio: couple of points to mention:

* Migration to SLC6. New emails sent by the linux administrators. Any issues from the Protodune side?

S: I think I can do it. I haven't done it yet. 

I: Migration from Puppet 5 to puppet 6 in the configuration management

X:  Proposal: forum to discuss and learn about fundamental aspects of software engineering for computing hardware accelerators document

S: There is some usage about hardware accelerators.  I will forward the document to the people involved

 

Roundtable:

Steven: No data taking in 2020. If anything, there will be just calibration data.  There are new people, and it will take some time to get them organized. New people are coming for the second round. 

Virtual Dune collaboration coming up at the end of september.

X: Q to Steven: What do you expect from us during these months until the Christmas break?

S: I don't expect big changes. 

X: We could help with the testing of EOS and Rucio if you guys are interested. 

X: I got contacted by the MuONE experiment (Mark Tesaresi and Christian . They are setting some instances in the same way as Dune

S: If they want documentation, I can send it to them

Elisabetta: Restarted operations at the beginning of august. Starting since may one third of the structure was empty. 

We wanted to check the stability of the detector. We struggled with several technical issues, and to fix it it was necessary to do . There was a surgery that was succesful, and it generated. CRT sparking rate became higher and we run several tested to understand it. 

Last week we took data, around 40 TB of data moved to EOS public. Now, trying to analyzing the data. 

Today is the last day of operations. Next week the decomimssion of the experiment will start.

We don't expect more data from now until the end of the year. The following weeks we might run some DAQ tests. No massive data taking, since we are decommissioning. 

I: Next meeting will be in ZOOM instead of Vidyo. 

S: I've been using ZOOM for 4-5 years already

S: Any information about RUN3?

X: The latest new is that RUN3 will be extended by one year. LS3 will start in 2025. The COVID impact is not yet clear. The fixed target experiments expect beam in 2021. For the LHC, probably no data taking in 2021 (not official).

E: Is CERN going to go back to normal situation?

I: The plan was to start at 100% physical presence at the beginning of September. It has been relaxed, and it has been relaxed to 50% for the positions where the presence at CERN is not necessary. 

X: We are decommisioning CASTOR, and moving forward CTA. ATLAS uses CTA, and non-LHC experiments are also doing the transition. In case Dune wants to evaluate the transition from CASTOR to CTA.

S: This is interesting. I thought it was only for LHC experiments

X: That has changed. That was true one year ago. 

S; We have to do it eventually, so it will be good to test it. 

 

AOB?

Next meeting in two months: 05.11.2020

 

 

 

 

 

15:00 → 15:15 Roundtable

• Proposal: forum to discuss and learn about fundamental aspects of software engineering for computing hardware accelerators document

15:15 → 15:35 Misc