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- Many questions to be tackled under this item:
- building vs running
- our software vs 3rd party libraries vs system libraries
- LAT calibrations, connection to mysql db, file transfer via xroot
- Following June 6th 2017 meeting, we'll initially focused on Containers as it's very unlikely that the SLAC farm will move to Virtual Machines (Brian's comment)
- For SLAC farm - docker containers for GlastRelease. Need docker registry
Use their system run to RHEL6 container, but batch host is RHEL7.
- Johan: VMs might still be useful for code development and debugging, for GR in particular.
- indeed, we'll very likely need a RHEL6 VM to build the GR containers at some point (or keep a bare metal node just for building), no?
- indeed, we'll very likely need a RHEL6 VM to build the GR containers at some point (or keep a bare metal node just for building), no?
Virtualization
- Virtual machines running in a cloud environment or on a farm made of virtual nodes
- just a simple VM for developers or end users
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