WP4 phone conference, 26/03/2003

Review of actions

Action 17: No update.
Action 18: Thomas has requested to the Condor team that they set up a Condor cluster for him to test. The RMS component to be integrated next week will only interface to PBS.
Action 40: Jan proposes to close this action and to open a new one to follow up the testing. CLOSED.
Action 74: The accounting is now finished, and it will be tested this afternoon together with WP1. Thanks to Thomas and the Resource Management task for the extra effort they have put to be ready for the integration date. German asks if the RMS is the only source of accounting information or if there is any alternative? From WP4 it is the only source; maybe WP1 has another alternative. Maite will check with Francesco.
Action 88: Priority is given now to the RMS integration. Thomas will test the use cases once this is over.

Action on the Monitoring task (Jan) to test the latest version of the FT prototype (including string comparison and level-based actuator schema).

German (CERN): progress report
Enrico (INFN): Working on final version of Automated Installation Infrastructure document. When the final version is ready, they will start the implementation (first without KickStart). Experimenting with the library provided by German. Andrea is discussing with his boss his contribution to WP4.
Martijn (NIKHEF): on track with the plan.
Thomas (ZIB): Preparations for next week integration.
Lord (University Heidelberg):
Jan van Eldik (CERN, Monitoring task):

2.3.2 TCP transport: ongoing
2.3.4 Alarm Display: ongoing
2.3.12 Oracle interface: CERN Oracle team came with many recommendations to improve the insert performance of the application (array inserts, variable binding) and the performance of the machine (Red Hat advanced server, striping across disks, EXT2 filesystem, asynchronous IO). These recommendations are being implemented.

Lex (Edinburgh University): working full time for the Configuration task as planned.
Piotr (CERN, Configuration task): 4 developments started in parallel:

2.1.4 - may be probably delayed - Piotr spent more time than planned on coordination, ATF and coordination with FIO.
2.1.5 - Rafael doing good work, everything on time
2.1.7 - according to Lex on time
2.1.8 - according to Andrew on time

Planning for 2003: Comments received from all the task leaders. The final version including them will be put in EDMS.