EPSCI Group Meeting Apr. 13, 2020

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Agenda:

  1. Previous meeting
  2. Software Licenses
  3. A.I. Hire
  4. DOE FOA (NLA?)
  5. SRO Activities
  6. JANA2
    • Quarterly report and FY20 milestones
  7. Legacy software support
  8. AOT

Minutes:

Attendees: David L.(chair), Carl T., Nathan B., Thomas B., Vardan G.

Software Licenses

  • Gitkraken and CLion licenses have been purchased and distributed to all group members
  • Nathan and Thomas missed the spam-like e-mail notifying them of their licenses for gitkraken, but found them during the meeting
  • Everyone now has JLab-purchased CLion and gitkraken license good for the next year

A.I. Hire

  • 14 applications so far
  • will form committee this week and start deciding who to invite for an interview

DOE FOA

  • Rough draft complete and out for comments
  • Will try finish off all auxiliary parts this week so it can be submitted next week

SRO

  • There will be an EIC Yellow Report meeting on Wed.
    • One on current reconstruction software options
    • One on COMPASS SRO system being developed
  • There will be another EIC YR meeting in about 1 month
    • JLab and BNL will give presentations on current SRO activities
    • Not clear how this overlaps with the Stream Readout VI workshop May 13-15
  • Vardan has pared down his list of questions for TriDAS experts to 3 or 4
    • Available on SharePoint document
    • Will discuss at SRO meeting this afternoon before sending

JANA2

  • Working to meet milestones for LDRD FY20
  • Nathan will give 20-30 minute talk at EPSCI group meeting next week
    • Some focus on differences between JANA1 and JANA2
  • Nathan will also prepare slides on SRO features of JANA2 for Marco's meeting a week from Thursday

Legacy Software

  • Carl gave update on new EVIO C++ development
    • Still climbing some of C++ learning curve
    • Ported Tree class from JAVA to C++ so the C++ implementation can be kept more consistent with Java implementation
  • Vardan gave an update on CODA support
    • FIPA-based intelligent agents
    • GUI component
    • COOL language for describing CODA state machine with new jcedit
    • Supporting JDK-11
  • Vardan also noted some work on porting CLARA to JDK-11
    • expected 15% performance improvement but did not see at first
    • resolved issue with incorrect JVM version running and now observe expected improvements
    • full benchmarking of CLAS12 code still needed
  • Thomas gave an update on MCWrapper
    • SLURM support now included
    • Now able to run standard GlueX container on JLab SciComp farm (was only used for offsite before)
    • Thomas is now JLab contact for OSG VO (used to be Sandy)
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