Minutes of the UVic Testbeam meeting held Friday, October 22, 2004
(present: ML,TH, RK, IG, AAgrewal, AAstbury, WS,  PP, TI, RS, MF)

Ashok reported that he needs a username and password to access the conditions database at CERN and that these passwords must be filled into job option files. He is working on installing the conditions database locally.  He also brought up the current RHEL vs. Scientific Linux  battle which triggered a discussion amongst the group. Randy will be running RHEL on the mercury cluster because it is considered an IBM supported OS, where as Scientific Linux is not. Ashok asked that the muse cluster be moved to RHEL as well. However, Richard pointed out that we will need to maintain some nodes and login machines which have an identical OS to Lxplus. Richard pointed that Tim Smith (Lxplus cluster Guru) should be contacted in regards to what will be happening with the Lxplus cluster so that we can maintain some parallel machines.

Tamara has managed to produce some fits on her energy density dependent parameters C₁, C₂, C₃ so that she can move to a beam-energy independent weighting scheme.

Ian has created a  locally mirrored version of relevant pieces of the Atlas CVS repository. He has also created a UVic branch of the mirrored repository which he and Margret have check-in access to.  He is now making improvements to the code. Richard requested that Ian inform Pavol and Rob about his repository.

Margret is now working off the mirrored repository and is working to continue the code cleanup. She discovered that a particular segfault experienced in the LArG4TB code was experience by Pavol at CERN and MPI. Pavol has been unable to find the source of the problem either.

Michel gave a rapid tour of the monitoring histograms to illustrate some of the details of that data for the group. This was done online using the data projector in the conference room.

Richard commented that Margret, Rolf and Kai should get together after the next LAr week at CERN to discuss what analysis jobs they could each work on to avoid excessive overlap.