Meeting Notes for 28 January 2008

Action Items

• Mihael switches priority to parallelization of Cosmic
• Put Phong on the ELabs help mailing list

TAP Requirements

• Mihael can put guesstimate numbers for time estimation
• UI needs to be hammered down for choosing the execution (Tom, Tom, Dale, Bob)
  • LIGO has something in Bluestone for this - as a possible example
  • Put estimates into existing look-and-feel
  • Mihael has implemented some of this on his local machine, will push to DEV
    • Shows time estimates
    • Shows actual time-to-run
• Bob will be concentrating on Cosmic right now.
• LIGO's and Cosmic's designs can be tried out in the TAP and we can feed
• Bob would prefer using PROD for each TAP
  • TAP next Wednesday (4 Feb), the W after (11 Feb)
  • Eric suggests writing down the version number
  • Phong will backport bug fixes

Cosmic-TRUNK

• Decide when we switch over Cosmic to the TRUNK build
  • Major testing will be needed (esp. related to Swift)
  • Before the third think-aloud?

Prior business

• Mihael hasn't had time to investigate modifying the Gantt chart
• Eric has specific breakdowns of his tasks
• Eric has altered the posting script so the name and email addresses for the helpdesk are masked from bots and the public
  • Mihael is investigating alternatives
  • Bob needs to know the specific helpdesk request requester
• Continue discussion on the computing LO via email

Issues

• Old DAQs and GPS antenna are off by 0.5 µs compared to new DAQs and GPS antenna
• Only an issue when comparing data from an old DAQ and from a new DAQ
• Engineers are investigating the issue in detail

Misc

• We have a spare 300GB HD, we can use it as a common directory
  • Allows for a unified home directory
  • It would change how the portal is deployed
  • Could just keep things the way they are until post-June or the next hardware cycle
• Eric's looking at inserting the forum, etc. into SVN
  • Teleconference to be scheduled