Minutes of the LSUG Teleconference
Thursday, 11 April 2002  (10:00PST)
Attendance: 

  Kent Blackburn,  Stuart,  Masha,  Peter,  Ed,  Jolien,  Duncan,
  Patrick,  Erik,  Warren,  Joe,  John,  Rauha,  Alan,



Status of LDAS:

  Code freeze on Friday:  tag and push onto ldas-test.  Will not make
  changes unless some bug is discovered.  Will continue to make
  changes to ldas-dev as to make improvements for release.   Concerns:
  (i) has not tested freq. downsampling,  (ii) no insight into how
  ldas will be able to produce reduced data sets.

  Availability of test system on Monday,  15 April 2002
  Tag and release on Friday,  19 April 2002

  Are build instructions up-to-date?   As far as he knows,  it
  available on the ldas-dev.  

  libcurl is new
  gcc new patch
  new ospace compiled optimized
  several other packages re-compiled
  going over to a new ssh and ssl

  A lot of packages have been removed in favor of RPM.  They will try
  to make a list of versions available within the documentation.  

  Masha will get a tag from Jolien and push everything onto the LDAS
  system.  


Status of LAL/LALWrapper:

  Hard freeze this evening.   Anticipate pre-release by Monday.   Will
  announce to Masha and lal-discuss.

  Close archives for weekend.  For testing will re-open lalwrapper
  archive to developers.   If people need to make changes to lal,  he
  will give permission.  


Coordination of testing:

  Request will go through lal-discuss and then will be handled by
  jolien and kent.   When a new version needs to be pushed onto the
  system,  they will stop ldas for a little while.  He will try to
  coordinate with lal/lalwrapper changes.

  If there is missing data,  

  If there are bugs that show up on our system.  It might be good to
  have the developers.  


Database Issues:

  Rauha has a request for another change to the multi-burst table.  If
  they can get this in this week,  they probably will be.  Rauha will
  send a new request to lal-discuss.   Peter and Kent will handle
  this.

  Replication and federation of databases.  May need to upgrade to a
  newer version.  Different than what Peter circulated before.  Igor
  has made a lot of progress on using the functionality of DB2.  There
  is a central database that captures all the information.  

  LSUG is the right forum to discuss this issue.   Need to make sure
  that it makes its way onto the agenda as often as possible.   They
  will get him to post it on the web.


Last chance:

  2 GHz P4 with 0.5 Gb per node.  Would like to know memory
  requirements.  


Other business:

  Visibility in the control rooms.  Greg will help with this.  

  Dave Barker opening a new interface into the epics system.  Can now
  run on solaris and linux.  Get the alarms produced in control room
  visible to us.  
   

Patrick Brady