Present |
Giuseppe Cerati, Vito Di Benedetto, Lynn Garren, Herbert Greenlee, Gianluca Petrillo, Erica Snider, Hans Wenzel, Tingjun Yang |
Remote |
Pengfei Ding, Ben Morgan, Gleb Sinev, Tracy Usher |
Project status report [Erica Snider]
- plans for future releases:
- introducing new GCC compiler version (
e15
qualifier)
- introducing a new version of art: 2.10
- introducing a new compiler: Clang ("official" version), for OSX
- the latter is going to take a while
- starting the discussion about virtualization as a way to support OSX-based environment
Supporting LArSoft on Mac OSX via Docker [Pengfei Ding]
- produced a docker image with SLF 6.7
- relies on host CVMFS setup
- could compile DUNE code (
dunetpc
)
- also could use the LArSoft event display, using a VNC session
- future attempts are to support OSX integrated development environments and GPU support
- experiments may produce specific images
- [Herbert Greenlee] why using VirtualBox on top of this? [A] it's a workaround for the performance issues of docker with OSXfuse (used by CVMFS) [Lynn Garren] talk to a CVMFS expert... it might be helpful
- [Gianluca Petrillo] could you run jobs that rely on IFDH? [A] yes; gridftp did not work, XRootD does so IFDH tools can be forced to use it via environment variables
Opinions:
- [Lynn Garren] building is going to be the tricking part
- [Lynn Garren] consider SLF7? (nobody present expressed reasons not to)
- [Herbert Greenlee] is Spack dead? [A] no, although it's not moving fast, there is a known path to delivery, and it will happen irrespective of our choice about using Docker
- [Tracy Usher] uses XCode as building environment, and it would be good to try to preserve that [Lynn Garren] as a test, Chris Green set the Clang build of art on OSX so that it could use XCode environment
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