Sync meeting 2023 10 23 with CernVM FS developers on Best Practices for CernVM FS on HPC tutorial

Sync meeting (2023-10-23)

Attending

• CernVM-FS: Laura, Jakob, Valentin
• EESSI/MultiXscale: Kenneth, Lara
• Excused: Bob

Notes

• go/no-go for online tutorial on Mon 4 Dec 2023
  • create event + announce?
  • motivation to stick to Mon 4 Dec'23
    • ISC'24
    • MultiXscale
• maybe make Terminology section an appendix (out of CVMFS intro)
• flagship repos
  • plot from department newsletter
• unpacked.cern.ch
  • https://cvmfs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cpt-ducc.html
  • https://cvmfs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cpt-containers.html
• performance section
  • tiered cache: https://cvmfs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cpt-hpc.html
    • not sure if this should be encouraged
• S3 storage backend
  • Stratum-1 with S3 storage
    • S3 on-site CEPH
    • S3 with cloud provider
  • not really compatible with GeoAPI...
• CDN
  • https://openhtc.io
• Troubleshooting
  • https://github.com/cvmfs/cvmfs/blob/devel/doc/developer/60-debugging-and-testing.md
• Next sync meeting
  • mid Nov'23?
    • Mon 20 Nov'23 14:00 CET
      • OK for Lara, Laura, Jakob, Valentin, Kenneth
      • will check with Bob & Alan