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The Major Review Meeting reports progresses in the four openlab Competence Centres
2nd February 2010  
  The Database Competence Centre presented the results of the advanced compression tests
CERN

CERN openlab held its 8th Major Review meeting on 28th January. In the morning, we had four technical presentations given by six team members who covered the work done in openlab since the last September Major Review Meeting:

  • The first talk focused on the Automation and Controls Competence Centre. Daniel Rodrigues presented the updates on PVSS while Filippo Tilaro spoke about PLCs Security and Omer Khalid covered STEP7.

  • Carlos Garcia Fernandez presented the latest Oracle activities in the Database Competence Centre. Amongst other things, he covered Oracle VM, the monitoring dashboard for the experiments monitoring and Exadata testing.

  • Ryszard Jurga covered the updates for the Networking Competence Centre. The CINBAD project is now turning into the production stage with more and more new facilities. The slides and a specific piece of news (coming soon) are available for further information.

  • Andrzej Nowak covered the recent results in the Platform Competence Centre. Amongst multiple other items, he mentioned that the PCC continues to actively participate in hardware beta testing and in Xeon development. A report is forthcoming.

In the afternoon, an executive session focused on management and communications aspects. In particular, the first issue of the newsletter was discussed as well as future plans for the coming year.

All presentations are available on our Web-site in the openlab presentations folder of the documents section.

Mélissa Le Jeune
CERN openlab