Data Handling Monthly Meetings

Meetings are held monthly via teleconference on first Thursdays, 11:00 Pacific time in the Ballam Conference Room at SLAC. The meetings will also be broadcasted via EVO system. We do not use video.
Please avoid an open mike, which may cause echoes. See the evo help.  For further information be sure to have a look at the VRVS Etiquette page.

Previous Years

• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005

May 10 2012

• Hardware
  • The plan to replace the sulkys.
    • Existing NFS server allocation
    • Strawman proposal for new allocation
  • Ideas for replacing the glastlnx machines.
    • Existing compute server allocation
    • Whether and how to consolidate?
  • How should we organize ourselves for planned computing outages?

• Astroserver and run quality
  • Criteria to load data into the astroserver.
  • Possible improvements to the run quality pages.

• Support for DQM
  • Is it possible to have more meaningful messages from the log watcher?
  • Speaking of the log watcher, what's happening with the messages from tkrTrendAlarm?
  • Status of automatic shift reminders.
  • Status of the Bad Time Intervals interface (unified timing convention, fix plot axis, use normalized transient rate plot...).

• Miscellanea
  • Can we improve communication for pipeline work?
  • New JIRA project for Fermi Data Handling
  • Problems with the data catalog (see jira)
  • Any idea what happened with robots.txt? do we need to password-protect the pipeline web interface?