On 3 Mar 2014, at 10:55, Peter Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The ATLAS images used on various cloud resources are preconfigured
> SL6. They don't provide the hooks needed to contextualise as LHCb
> does.
Is there anything online about how what the images look like? (These
are distinct from the Cloud Scheduler stuff which creates a condor
batch farm on a cloud resource, if I’m right?)
> There is some activity to look at uCernVM but at this stage
> running on Vac seems beyond the effort we have available. Personally I
> like the idea but the best we can do is make decisions to not exclude
> the Vac model. If you have time to look into the details then we can
> help. One aspect are the wrapper scripts which are being re-jigged in
> ATLAS now.
I’d be very happy to work on a VM image too, but I'd need friendly
ATLAS people to be able to submit jobs (and read the protected
Twiki pages!)
Cheers
Andrew
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University of Manchester, UK, M13 9PL.
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