LSC Data Analysis Software Working Groups

Agenda: Wed, 9 August 2006

Minutes

Attendance:

Stuart Anderson
Kent Blackburn
John Zweizig
Shourov Chatterji
Brian Moe
Patrick Brady (minutes)
Keith Thorne
Igor Yakushin
Junwei Cao
Xavier Siemens
Greg Mendell
Ben Johnson

New structure:

  bylaws require identification of working group chairs and three at
  large members for the Data Analysis Software Committee.  Basically,
  we will have each project lead on the committee and three members at
  large.  See the leadership sub-heading of the web page.

  Operation by consensus rather than voting.  


FC4 and O/S for future:

  Junwei asked about FC5 support.  Stuart asked where we go next.
  General discussion suggests that we can stay put with FC4 for ~12
  months, but not longer.  ** Will get a subcommittee to examine the
  options **

  Stuart mentioned problems with FC4, NIS+ and glibc.

  Condor up to RHEL3.  Needs stubs for FC4 glibc.


Last call for VDT on RH7.3 and RH9:

  We're ok to drop this.


Update on VDT installing its own python:

  Alain thnks there is a bug in pacman rules.  He will work with
  Junwei.  He ran 32 bit and found it did not install a new version of
  python.


Condor related issues:

  There will be a release of 6.8.1 in a few days.  Fix to condor_run
  -force crash.  NFS log file issue.  Checkpoint issue and schedd
  looping restart.

  Will upgrade at CIT, then will upgrade elsewhere. 


Nemo:

  Shourov poked around.  Was able to run condor.  Needs more
  documentation of where things are,  policies on back-ups, scratch,
  etc.  

  Having an ldas-jobs web server is highly desirable. 

  Some software he wanted was missing.  Paul installed. 

  Shourov asked about getting our web pages under a wiki.  Patrick
  commented that software tools don't fix the problems, people fix the
  problems.  

  Matlab is being worked on actively by Keith and Paul Armor.  


Frame spec change:  

  There was discussion of the request from Benoit to make a change to
  the frame spec.  This led to the idea of discussing with Benoit at
  the LSC meeting and formation of a sub-committee to address possible
  changes. 

  Igor has no update on frame 6.20 bug he found. 


Certificate request problems:

  Patrick will ask Warren, Kent and Junwei to look into this and
  update our scripts. 


64 bit:

  Most of our software is now in LSCSOFT.  DMT offline not tested
  against root, framecpp, etc.  

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