Alan Campbell 31.3.99 campbell@desy.de

Summary of L45 upgrade meeting 31.3.99

Today a small group discussed some ideas on the use of PC farms in H1for batch processing and online filtering, in the light of a second PC-Farm for which we already have funding.

Ralf Gerhards presented detailed plans to install and testLSF batch system on the current H1 PC-Farm and make it available to H1 users this summer.

Alan Campbell presented the attached slides.

He started to formulate changes in the standard H1 program framework to enable user jobs to use parallel processing.

In addition some technolgies which may be usefull in its implementation were mentioned.

It was felt that before starting coding we should invite all H1 colleagues ( and friends ) to give comments , ideas, and suggestions and invite participation.