WP4 phone conference, 07/05/2003

Review of actions

Action 17: No update.
Action 18: No update. Thomas has not started yet to install LSF at his institute.
Action 88: Thomas has tested the use cases proposed by German. He will write a report about it.
Action 90: On hold, no progress.
Action 91: Due to many problems to make the WP1 basic job submission work, the project has decided to delay the accounting-aware Resource Broker. So WP4 accounting is already included in release 2 but the WP1 part is not included by now.

German (CERN, Installation task): progress report
Andrea (INFN): working with WP1 to help writing their LCFGng components for Release 2.0.
Martijn (NIKHEF, gridification task):

2.5.1 LCMAPS design and development: ongoing/on schedule. Policy language evaluator integrated, working on some fixes. This task is nearly finished.
2.5.2 LCMAPS AFS and Kerberos modules: started/on schedule. AFS module put forward. Release: end of may.
2.5.4 VoMS module, POSIX module, POOL module: ongoing/delayed. VOMS module: working on the VOMS certificate interface (with help of WP6-authorization group). Small drawback: VOMS not in release 2.0, some problems with interface. Release: end of June.

Information Providers: 0.8 PW, ongoing, integration finished (?)
Resource Management System: 2.7 PW, ongoing, build procedure reorganization, work on a publication.
Coordination: 0.5 PW, ongoing, publication, etc.
Integration: no current efforts

2.3.2 TCP transport: tested & released!
2.3.2 C-implementation of the repository API: finished
2.3.4 Alarm Display: search engine ongoing; working on using Oracle server as backend.
2.3.12 Oracle interface: new release, with partitioning and indices. Integration with Alarm Display reveals problems (crashes...) that are being worked on.
2.3.5 Packaging, documentation and unit testing for release 2: everything repackaged (name changes, LCF objects)

Lex (Edinburgh University): work on the CDB SQL Server module, and fixing LCFG bug reports. He has attended an OGSA tutorial. He has an inflammation of the tendons in the right arm and the doctor has recommended to avoid typing with the right hand.
Piotr (CERN, Configuration Mgt task):

2.1.4 Scalability: late, no update
2.1.5 CDB notification for sync: late, working on the second version of proposal
2.1.7 CDB SQL Server module: late
2.1.14 CCM Schema checking: I guess not started

Barcelona conference starts next Monday at 9 am. WP4 meeting will be on Tuesday the whole day. Please, download your talks to the agenda page: