From marilyn@bastet Fri Mar 12 17:02:52 1999
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:15:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Marilyn Schweitzer <marilyn@bastet>
To: run2farms@fnal.gov, runiisteering@fnal.gov, odell@fnal.gov, echeu@fnal.gov
Subject: Run II Farms: Batch Software Working Group Update

First a reminder that Platform Computing is visiting Tuesday, December 15th.
The meeting is in FCC 2A and 2B from 9:30am to 3:00pm.  The agenda is:

 9:30 -  9:45	Introduction - Marilyn Schweitzer
 9:45 - 10:15	Fermilab Operating System Support - Lisa Giacchetti
10:15 - 10:45	Current Experience with LSF at Fermilab - Jim Fromm
10:45 - 11:00	License Management Issues - Marilyn Schweitzer
11:00 - noon	New Architectures Needing Batch Services (Liz-Buckley-Geer,
                Vicky White, Marilyn Schweitzer)
  noon - 1:00	Lunch	
  1:00 - 2:30	Technical Presentation by Platform - Bing Wu, Selam Kapetanovic
  2:30 - 3:00   Questions/Wrap-up
	
Drafts of the presentation materials can be found:
	http://www-hppc.fnal.gov/r2prodman/r2bwg/r2bwg.html
Comments are welcome.

You can also get to it from the Run II Production Manangement URL:
	http://www-hppc.fnal.gov/r2prodman/r2prodmanpage.html

At Monday's (December 7) meeting we:
	a) Exchanged existing documentation
	b) Discussed CDF's requirements of batch as they relate to LSF.
	   Nothing was brought up the was viewed to be a "show-stopper"
	   from using LSF.
	c) Updated the agenda for Platform's visit. Changes CDF would like
           to see of LSF are included in Jim's talk. The Run II Batch Software
           working group slot will instead present to Platform the hardware
           and software architectures for which we are considering LSF.
	d) Marilyn will initially devise the template for the document
	   that will come out of this working group. Liz and Vicky will
           subsequently take over editting the document.

The next meeting will be 1/8/99 where we will discuss:
	a) the results of Platforms's visit
	b) the template of the document for this working group's results
	c) any further known CDF, D0, farms requirements on batch software

The following meeting, 1/18/98, CDF and D0 will present their evaluation
so far of the Farms Batch System that they have been using on the Run II
prototype farm. The results of this evaluation will be input into the
overall working groups requirements for batch software.


Marilyn