EPSCI Group Meeting Mar. 8, 2021

From epsciwiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

The meeting time is 10:00am.

Connection Info:

You can connect using BlueJeans Video conferencing (ID: 253 300 597). (Click "Expand" to the right for details -->): 

Meeting URL
 https://bluejeans.com/253300597?src=join_info

Meeting ID
253 300 597

Want to dial in from a phone?

Dial one of the following numbers:
+1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free)
(see all numbers - https://www.bluejeans.com/premium-numbers)

Enter the meeting ID and passcode followed by #

Connecting from a room system?
Dial: bjn.vc or 199.48.152.152 and enter your meeting ID & passcode

Agenda:

  1. Introductions to group
  2. Previous meeting
  3. Announcements
  4. Conferences and Workshops
  5. Ongoing Activities
    • Data Transport
    • DAQ systems
      • SRO
        • SAMPA + ERSAP + JANA2 + INDRA-ASTRA = April 1st
      • CODA (CODA3 support, EVIO-6)
    • Experiment Support
      • EIC (EIC Software Expression of Interest meeting 1/27)
      • CPP
      • SOLID
    • Offsite Computing
      • NERSC, PSC, IU
      • OSG
  6. AOT

Minutes:

Attendees: David L., Carl T., Nathan B., Kishan R., Vardan G., Thomas B., Graham H., Mike G.

  • GPU Farm nodes
    • Some complications with initial plan for GPU purchase by ENP for SciComp farm
    • Vendor quote for GPU nodes does not include option for single GPU nodes with reasonable pricing (only nodes with many GPUs)
    • Alternative plan formed to purchase only a couple of those nodes, but Bryan was going to look into getting quote from another vendor
  • OSG
    • There was a request for suggestions for Edgar's replacement. Raised question if person being integrated now will be temporary.
    • Thomas believes this person will remain our contact and any additional hire they make will work on other things.
  • SPACK
    • Some work done on documentation on wiki
    • Instructions pointed to for using the system
  • ACTS
    • Met with Andrei Salzberger last week (lead developer for ACTS)
    • ACTS is now in use for production in ATLAS
      • Released version 6 two days ago
      • May be good time to finally update from version 1.2 EIC is currently using since production use at ATLAS may slow down API-breaking major version releases
    • Need to reach out to Pukai (edge customer) again
  • JANA2
    • Some progress in getting scons build system working again with GlueX + JANA2
    • JANA2 + ERSAP development is ready to start. ersap-jana project already on GitHub (Vardan)
  • CLARA
    • Responsibilities for I/O code now transferred to CLAS12 developers
  • Data Transport
    • Mike, Graham, and David Met with Yatish Kumar from ESNet to discuss FPGA data transport project
    • Yatish indicated we would need an FPGA programmer on our end
    • Meeting scheduled for this week with Chris Cuevas and some of his group to discuss the project
  • INDRA-ASTRA project
    • Current request/plan is to get SAMPA system setup so they can continue from where they left off when Eric P. initially set up project
    • Vardan noted that the VTP setup may be more readily available and could be useful for their purposes.
    • David will reach out to Markus to discuss it
  • AI
    • AIEC (Experimental Controls)
      • Paperwork for the 2 new hires for the project has been submitted. Offers have not been extended/accepted yet
      • Thomas has begun spending more time on the project. (He charges 10% of his time to it)
      • Initial focus is on existing GlueX CDC calibration code
    • Hydra paper
      • First draft complete and primary authors have been notified
    • JupyterHub
      • Some issues with using a virtual environment
      • Need access to log files to track down issue
      • epsci-notebook works better, but not all tab completion features are working. It does use Jupyterlab-3.
    • AiDAPT (Nobuo project)
      • Kishan converted some notebooks to use more recent TF and Keras version
      • Notebooks had used older version of TF before Keras was integrated
    • Some review of the GlueX BCAL project to classify Neutronic vs. photonic showers
      • Will need to study more and communicate with project owners again about next steps
Retrieved from "https://wiki.jlab.org/epsciwiki/index.php?title=EPSCI_Group_Meeting_Mar._8,_2021&oldid=591"