WP4 phone conference, 7/8/2002

Review of actions

13: No update
17: No update
18: No update. Condor not supported for release 2.
40: The MR API has been updated after some experience with the first implementation.
58: LCAS testing not finished because of problems with new Globus installation. Job manager changed in new Globus release (see under AOB).
74: Thomas has been in contact with Andrea from Turin. Andrea has sent a document describing their software. The implementation cannot start before end of next week because Andrea is away on holidays. Regarding the information that needs to be published it seems WP1 may be satisfied with information from the batch system. This means that the accounting sensor from the monitoring task is not required. Sylvain has already provided such sensor but it is not yet in CVS.
76: Thomas got an answer from glue saying that the schema will probably stabilise by next week. Thomas does not see any particular problem for the implementation.

Only ~5 people from WP4 will participate. Olof will ask to reduce the scheduled WP4 meeting to half day. Due to low participation we cannot use the Budapest WP4 meeting for initiating the planning for 2003. Instead we will have to schedule WP4 workshop at CERN for beginning of December.
Thomas: propose to have a WP4 integration workshop where all WP4 software can be installed. Maite suggest to wait until LCFGng and monitoring deployed. German said that such a “hands-on” should best be scheduled in connection with the WP4 workshop foreseen for December.

Thomas wondered what are the problems with the new Globus? Maite said she doesn’t know yet. She has been able to install a computing element but it doesn’t work. The jobs cannot get the output back and then jumps between the queues until the resource broker considered them as failed. This week Cal Loomis is back and he has started to investigate the problem. He has now managed to submit some jobs and it seems that the job manager has changed with the new release. This means that Maite will have to restart the integration of the RMS components that works with the previous Globus job mgr. Maite will do this after she has finished with the Global Schema definition.
Maite: LCFGng will be release today or tomorrow. The configuration files (.h) have to be changed and Enrico will do this when he is back from holidays in two weeks time. Only then LCFGng will be widely deployed (realistically in the beginning of September).