Meeting Notes for 2 May 2012

General

• Going to ANL next week
  • Stand up QuarkNet homepage server
  • Going to test a different drive controller for data3 to see if the Areca is giving us trouble
• Deployment planned for many things this weekend
  • Blessing-M0
  • LIGO updates
• Scratchdir filled up and blocked Cosmic jobs
  • Changed the scratchdir job to purge stuff after two days, not 14
  • Changed the data2 analysis directory job to purge stuff after 14 days, not 30
  • Compressed orphaned raw upload files (and deleted duplicates) to free up some space
• What do we do for workshop support?
  • Do we need people on-call?
  • Failure punchlist, that doesn't work, call experts?
  • Give more people sudo access? Dangerous.

Cosmic

• Workshop in Korea last week
  • Went well!
  • Mentor is leaving Trying to find a replacement
  • Longevity is an issue for international groups
• Blessing (see bug 472)
  • Make the error codes more accessible
  • Discussion on Blessing-M2 - when do we do it?
    • Get dev work done well-early
    • Hold off on 'golden files' until end of summer?
    • Show golden files/plots now to advanced workshops?
    • Bless some of our own high-quality data? (Administrative-override)
    • Fellows might take some time to look over M2
• Priority-buglist in progress

CMS

• Calibration in progress

LIGO

• Updates planned to be rolled out
• LIGO is working on data access issues