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.

1 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