From: Hironori Ito (hito@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 18:16:19 EDT
Hello. About rcas software. Who use xv, xfig and latex over the long network? I wouldn't do it. Do we realy ask for this? (Note: rcf only wants to install the same image to all rcas including othere rhic experiments.) Hiro Flemming Videbaek wrote: > I compiled the messages from Bjoern+Christian into this kind of list. > > Since I will probably not make it to (all) of the meeting I hope/assume > Hiro can go. > > > > Other comments- > > Kris have you had a chance to checkout the RH9.0 machine-oops I guess > not since the > > message about the RH9 was probably not ever forwarded to you. > > > > | > | The respective Liaisons are encouraged to test (or ask > | your users to test) these 3 different RH Linux flavors > | (rplay1 -> RH 7.3, rplay15 -> RH 8 and rplay10 -> RH 9) > | in the next few weeks (the earlier the better). At the > | meeting, each experiment will be asked for their OS > | upgrade wishlist (flavor, extra software packages, etc). > | Since USATLAS uses the LSF shared queues in the RHIC Linux > | Farm, is is encouraged to attend in order to understand > | how the RHIC OS upgrade will impact its access to the > | RHIC Linux Farm. > | > | I will make a short presentation at the meeting to > | summarize our upgrade plan and schedule. Discussion of > | the experiments' needs will follow. > > Flemming > > > > Bjorn (sys op at NBI) and my general experience is, that one should > wait for Red Hat x.1 rather than jumping into Red Hat x.0 straight > away, as x.0 always has child-diseases. That said, we should get onto > a newer system ASAP. > > > > >> As I hear RH 9.0 is in reality RH 8.1 thus should be ok > > > > > > Compilers: > * GCC 3.2 or 3.3 (probably available at that time) > * Intel C++ compiler > * GDB > > > > scripting > > * Perl an obvious must > * python2.2, > > > > Libraries: > * XFree86 4.2.x run-time and developer libraries + headers > (in particular the OpenGL and libfreetype stuff) > * libmysqlclient (what ever version) > * LDAP for GRID solutions > * GSL (Gnu Scientific library) > > > > Tools > > * The MS True Type Fonts installed somewhere on the system. > * Autotools: > - Autoconf 2.53+ > - Automake 1.7+ > - Libtool 1.5+ > > > > could we also add utility programs like > > >> (request for making overseas work easier, except of course these > services are available on rcf2 ). > > > * latex > * xv > * xfig > > > > > > Services: > * MySQL server on brahms-db0 > * rootd - that's a can of worms to say the least. To do that really > effectively, we should get the RCF guys to have `rootd' controlled > by `xinetd' (see the `rootd' man page, and the RPM stuff in the > ROOT source tree). > > >> This is how it is done, apart from the fact it points not to a /uar/.. > > >> but a brahmlib version. > > * LSF or OpenPBS. (will likely have condor) > > >> > * LDAP > * CVS server. Rather than insisting on people using AFS to access > our CVS repositories, we could use a CVS server. > > >> -- Certainly not on all machines? > > Other stuff: > * The MS True Type Fonts installed somewhere on the system. > * Autotools: > - Autoconf 2.53+ > - Automake 1.7+ > - Libtool 1.5+ > > > > > > The web search engine is as I realized since Betty left our own problem > not RCF since the > > messages end up under our control on the br_list user account. > > > > Flemming > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Flemming Videbaek > Physics Department > Brookhaven National Laboratory > > tlf: 631-344-4106 > fax 631-344-1334 > e-mail: videbaek@bnl.gov <mailto:videbaek@bnl.gov>
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