ALICE Panda CBM Grid Meeting

Europe/Berlin
Kilian Schwarz (GSI Ges. für Schwerionenforschung mbH)
Beschreibung
biweekly ALICE FAIR Grid telephone meeting Telephone conference. To join, please do one of the following: 1. Dial +41227676000 (Main) and enter access code 0145122, or 2. To have the system call you, use this link https://audioconf.cern.ch/call/0145122
    • 1
      PandaGrid Workshop in Vienna February 14-18
      see http://nuclear.gla.ac.uk/grid-workshop/
      Sprecher: Dan Protopopescu
    • 2
      BMBF Support fur Dubna/Russia Grid Centre
      Sprecher: Kilian Schwarz
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    • 3
      Status Oracle AliEn interface
      Sprecher: Almudena Montiel Gonzales
    • 4
      Status AliEn AliEn interface
      Sprecher: Szymon Daraszewicz
      text
    • 5
      AliEn Database issues
      - overview over current DB structure, what tables are important which ones obsolete ? - upgrade to AliEn v219, what are the main changes in the DB ? - how changes in the database or data structure should be distributed (and how existing databases can be upgraded)
      Sprecher: Pablo Saiz
    • 6
      tight connection of AliEn to external software
      - too tight connection to external software may be a problem for new VOs. - setup of AliEn is relatively easy, but setting up a ML repository did not work for new VOs without direct help from Costin. No corresponding manual or howto available for doing this from scratch - removal of SE service as site service: it was handy to have an AliEn service which takes care of xroot configuration and startup. If new VOs have also to install xrootd additionally on each site this is an additional obstacle - generally the obstacle for startup with AliEn Grid seems to become higher and higher for new VOs
      Sprecher: Florian Uhlig
    • 7
      hardwired code components in AliEn
      e.g. Command.pm ==> ALICE::CERN::SCRATCH Service::Optimizer::Job.pm ==> ALICE::CNAF::CASTOR LCM.pm ==> Subatech
      Sprecher: Florian Uhlig