Core Minutes 5/2/2006  

Present:    Joanne Bogart, Toby Burnett, David Chamont, Jim Chiang, Richard Dubois, Warren Focke, Riccardo Giannitrapani, Berrie Giebels, Tom Glanzman, Navid Golpayegani, Heather Kelly, Michael Kuss, David Landriu, Bryson Lee, Francesco Longo, Igor Pavlin, Leon Rochester, Tom Stephens, Tracy Usher

• GlastRelease: (Richard) As of last night there is a new tag, v9r2. The RM Linux builds disk had filled up so he and Navid deleted about 60 old builds to make room. Toby and Tracy have tracked down the last of the particle naming bugs.

  (Toby) Windows build times are if anything worse than before. (Richard) There was a configuration change, allowing 6 concurrent jobs on a machine rather than 3, which could be relevant.

• Beamtest: (Richard, Francesco) Tracy recommends going to GlastRelease v9 base. Francesco and Michael almost have this working. There is a compile problem related to ROOT, Michael has seen a linking problem and there is also a run-time problem, but they expect to be able to resolve them all shortly. The high priority electron and photon runs have been made using the old, largely GR v8-based, Beamtest release.
• Finding calibrations: Toby suggests that we settle on a recommended spot, somehow related to GLAST_EXT, for users who have to maintain their own collection of calibrations. The code would then look there if LATCalibRoot was not set. [Joanne has some misgivings which she couldn't express at the meeting since her mike mysteriously stopped working a couple weeks ago.]
• MRStudio: (Riccardo) You are urged to read Riccardo's report for the complete story. A few points are summarized here.

  First import into CVS was flawed, but this should be fixed shortly. Please note that all MRStudio development has been done with CMT v1r18; he assumes we will have officially moved to this version by the time MRStudio is ready for serious use. By the way, he believes the latest MRvcmt version has fixed problems people have reported using MRvcmt with CMT v1r18. Please let him know directly or open a JIRA issue if you discover otherwise.

  The solution files created by CMT for vs71 (controlled somewhere in GlastPolicy?) aren't usable and have to be removed somewhat awkwardly by MRStudio (Riccardo's work-around is to do it as part of the configure step) in order not to interfere with a correct build. (Toby) The GlastPolicy stuff handling this is old and out of date. We also need to be concerned with Visual Studio 8: will support be forthcoming from the CMT support team?

   

• Processing circus: (Richard) We need to plan carefully to avoid a crunch. The LAT is supposed to be shipped around May 13th or 14th and will be put in thermal vac July-August. During this time data will be taken continuously. The Beamtest will also be in progress. The combined load may be more than SLAC can handle.
• In brief: (Richard)
  • SCS has configured 5 of our 6 new disk servers. They should be available some time today. Update: as of this afternoon, 4 of the 6 are up.
  • Installer seems to occasionally lose track of xmlUtil.
  • Our first meeting using EVO was a qualified success. It was fully functional for most people, but not all. Please send comments and complaints to the Core mailing list. Richard will pass them on to the EVO support team.

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