Virgo Kick-Off Meeting on Computing

Thursday 28 Feb 2019, 09:30 → 17:30 Europe/Madrid

Useful links:

• The venue is located here
• A list of nearby accomodation locations can be found here

Please book your stay as soon as possible. The week after is the Mobile World Congress and Barcelona gets really crowded.

09:30 → 09:50 qarsar

Current sw management rules at: https://wiki.virgo-gw.eu/Software_Management/WebHome

• Which sw is managed?
  # Online?
  # Framework?
  # User analisis?

• Role of the existing Ligo-Virgo Software Configuration Control Board (SCCB) in this game: https://wiki.ligo.org/Computing/SCCB

• /virgoApps more than 900 packages!

• Review product/module breakdown

• Is there a "Testing environment"?, useful/needed to decouple from the operational one.

• Not only for data analysis pipelines, but also at ‘framework’ level; e.g. to test Rucio, DIRAC, data exchange, bookkeeping, workload…
• How are the main pipelines developed? Internal group effort or collab effort?
• Which are developed by Virgo?

• Which are coming external to Virgo?

• SW distribution

• Conda (Review of the corresponding proposal https://tds.virgo-gw.eu/ql/?c=13967)
• Cvmfs

• Singularity

• Newer toolings available

• Git
  • If/when/how

• CMT not maintained

  • Can we take the conda migration as an opportunity to replace cmt with something else? CMake, bazel…

• Automated release, packaging and distribution possible?

• Roadmap