EJFAT Group Meeting Oct 3, 2024

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Agenda:

  1. Previous meeting
  2. Announcements:
    1. ACAT 2024 Paper - In Review
    2. U280’s are discontinued.
      1. New LB purchases U55C
      2. U55C bitfiles available 1 year out
      3. U280 Supported indefinitely
  3. Topics
    1. IRI Test Development:
      1. New Test Postponed untill Thursday Oct 10, at ???
      2. LB version = ESnet Stable version
      3. Data Source:
        1. JLAB, CLAS12, pre-triggered events - 1 channel
      4. Data Sink:
        1. Perlmutter - 40 nodes
        2. ORNL/ESnet/JLab IRI Testbed / Defiant - 4 nodes allocated
        3. JLab - 6 nodes available
        4. FABRIC - ? nodes available
        5. ERSAP
      5. Test Plans - JLab, ESnet, NERSC:
      6. Prometheus Dashboards
      7. Analyzing data from Aug 29, 2024
    2. ALS:
    3. JLab FEG/SRO
      1. will use interim UDP solution for event sync
      2. Special Events Issue - Completely Out-of-band
        1. Cloud Based message queue
        2. LB isolation from any non-LB processing
    4. E2SAR - close to packetizing/reassembling
    5. IB
    6. ejfat-3 - two FPGA DP built, running - awaiting 4-port LAG at switch, needs CP installation
    7. ejfat-6 - Ubuntu 24.04 installed - esnet-smartnic-fw build succeeds with podman, issues with podman compose
    8. SC poster submitted - demo in works
    9. Experiment Halls - beam returns late January/February 2025
    10. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - support ends in 2025
    11. LAGing U280 to switch on ejfat-1 - done
    12. EJFAT Phase II
  4. AOT

Minutes

  1. ALS: Next is Tech Talk
  2. Special Events: Site Issue: Cloud solutions include CAFCA, RabbitMsg, ...
  3. E2SAR: 1.0.2 released, segmentation/reassembly complete
  4. CP: Control Web UI (127.0.0.1) needs SSH tunnel
  5. EJFAT II: New CP-DP APIs for config available for current current FW (?)
  6. ESnet interested in partnering for beachhead in FPGA/GPU AI space
    1. Separate Project
    2. FAST program coming up
    3. May get free help from Xilinx
    4. Might target VERSA release