EPSCI Group Meeting Jun. 1, 2020

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The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

  1. Previous meeting
  2. Announcements
    • Credit time reset after June 30th timesheet (click "Leave" in middle of timesheet)
    • Overleaf licenses( contact an admin to start new paper)
    • A.I. New Hire
    • Software and Computing Round Table June 2 @ 11:00am (indico bluejeans)
  3. JLab Common Environment (CE)
  4. Ongoing Activities
    • Hall A/C Software support (Carl T.)
    • EVIO-6 (Carl T.)
    • JANA2 (Nathan B.)
    • MCWrapper + OSG (Thomas B.)
    • SRO Activities (Vardan G.)
  5. AOT

Minutes:

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

Announcements

  • Thomas: xrootd server is now stood up and available for general use
    • Probably need documentation on a CC webpage somewhere

JLab CE

  • No significant movement on this
  • Need to study spack and come up with a plan on implementing it at JLab

EVIO-6

  • C++ version now compiles, but not tested yet
  • Few things left to tidy up
  • estimate still 1 month more of development/testing

Hall A/C Software

  • Carl reached out to Bob M. who pointed him to Ole
  • No momentum yet

JANA2

  • Nathan will dedicating significant time to start GlueX port this week
  • Successful hand off of ACTS (tracking) software effort in EIC to Dmitry
    • Some new features for JANA2 will be added due to that experience

MCWrapper

  • New release is out
    • Adds (optional) post-event-generator/pre-simulation processing task
  • xrootd
  • Data Federation for EIC (stashcache )
  • CVMFS + OSG
    • Creating JLab Virtual Organization that will eventually replace the GlueX Virtual Organization set up by Richard Jones
    • question of hosting CVMFS share for JLab VO on oasis or JLab decided (it will be oasis)
  • Looking into allowing OSG jobs to run on JLab farm
    • Motivated by collaboration on EIC with BNL

SRO

  • Vardan and Dave A. investigating new Arista switch that could potentially replace CSA software component
    • Includes user-programmable FPGA that can be used to process network traffic
  • Online reconstruction of CLAS12 data
    • Held up by expensive conversion from EVIO to HIPPO (~4Hz/core)
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