Reprocessing: Meeting of 31-Jan-2005: 9:30-10:30 ESNet video conference

Agenda

1. News
2. Status of Merge Certification of Sites
3. JIM Deployment and Remote Setup
4. AOB.

Minutes

Participants

Topics

1. News
   p17.03.00 problems in build 2 with single events taking up to 3.7hours, a fix needs testing;
   Calorimeter has changed DB schema (!)
   Our estimate thus is that frozen p17.03.00 is at least one week away.
2. Status of Merge Certification of Sites
   We have p17.02.00 RecoCert working, OverlayPlots is broken though. Should be fixed in p17.03.00.
   • DØFarm has produced all required datasets, RecoCert is being run on these.
   • WestGrid will send first merge certification after the meeting.
   • Lyon does have 2 of 3 daysets produced but HPSS is down until Wednesday. Tibor will send them in one go.
     
   • SAR expects to send datasets by the end of the week
     
   
   Error messages on DB server about access to CPS cal DB server without jobs failing. DB server seems to raise exception, but still doesn't stop. Provide logfiles of d0reco to Qizhong and Laurent.
   Qizhong needs to check that all DB servers have contents for all runs.
3. JIM Deployment and Remote Setup
   • GridKa: Still problems with SAM (sam_cp_config). Station is also extremely slow.
   • Wisconsin: Sometimes only very few machines are available to run reprocessing due to site policy. Running merge certification.
   • Prague: MC jobs have problems sam_client was fixed under test.
   • UK: IC problems installing vdt. Improvments are slow but steady.
     Manchester: New installation which hopefully can build on existing though old configuration. Lancster and RAL not yet started.
4. AOB:
   
   • Stuff discussed along the way:
     Iain warns that adding --killDeclaration is significant change.
     Exit codes can be found in run time directory named "exit_code".
     Work on XML stuff can wait.
   • Yann wants to monitor CPU/event from monitoring. Beginning and end time can also be taken from the metadata of the output unmerged thumbnails.

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