WP4 phone conference, 09/04/2003

Review of actions

Action 17: No update.
Action 18: No update.
Action 74: No update.
Action 88: No update.
Action 90: Not tested yet, but this does not stop the FT task to continue with their developments. Lord is waiting for a fix from Olof to a bug in the subscription to the Monitoring repository.

None.

German (CERN): progress report
Enrico (INFN): first version of aii-dhcp and aii-nbp ready (this one not yet in CVS).
Martijn (NIKHEF):

2.5.1 LCMAPS design and development: ongoing/on schedule (main activity)
2.5.2 LCMAPS AFS and Kerberos modules: started/on schedule
2.5.3 Job repository: not started
2.5.4 VoMS module, POSIX module, POOL module: ongoing/on schedule (main activity)
2.5.5 LCAS server implementation: not started
2.5.6 FLIdS: not started
2.5.7 FabNat: not started
2.5.8 Packaging, documentation and unit testing for release 2: ongoing
2.5.9 Integration and deployment on testbed: ongoing
2.5.10 Support for the release 2 system to the testbed: ongoing

Thomas (ZIB): RMS integration.
Lord (University Heidelberg): Ralf Panse is still working on burn in test for hard disks. He is trying to understand the functionality of the disk tools from different vendors like IBM and Seagate. Frank Pister is still debugging the "internal compiler errors" with the compiler version 2.96. Lord is working on the GUI for generating rules and feeding a database.
Jan van Eldik (CERN, Monitoring task):

2.3.2 TCP transport: Ongoing. Key developer has not had much time to spend on developments.
2.3.4 Alarm Display: Good progress. Implementation of alarm acknowledgements, will soon run with the configuration of the CERN Computer Center, i.e. ~1200 nodes * ~100 metrics.
2.3.12 Oracle interface: David has released the oracleMonserver, supporting "blocks inserts" of data, and he reports ~4500 inserts per second of (dummy) data. This is well above the rate of ~450 inserts per second needed for today's configuration in the Computer Centre. Jan evaluated the insert misses into the oracleMonserver, and found that of 493910 values sent from ~820 nodes for a single metric over a 10 hour period, 14 where not recorded. Insert efficiency is therefore 100.00 %!
2.3.21 MSA developments: autoload on MSA configuration file has been reworked.

Lex (Edinburgh University): working full time (90%) for the Configuration task as planned.
Piotr (CERN, Configuration task):

2.1.4 - may be probably delayed (explication the same as in previous report) + my holidays two weeks starting 18)
2.1.5 - delayed Rafael on holidays next week (and then me for two weeks)
2.1.7 - delayed Lex: debugging the CCM problem, and longer-than-expected time putting together spanning map use cases.
2.1.8 - late, some debugging problems (but solved yesterday) and there is one algorithm problem (design flow) discovered yesterday - I guess should be fixed this/early next week.

The EU has told the project that the 2 last QRs (QR8 and QR9) have to bee changed to include 3 months each (instead of 2 and 4, as it was said in the beginning). Maite will take the input already sent and redistribute it to fit the new month separation.