EPSCI Group Meeting May 4, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Announcements
   • DOE FOA -submitted!
   • Intel have been deprecating the low level tbb::task API - (HEPSF meeting Wed.)
3. A.I.
   • New Hire
   • AITO meeting
4. JLab Common Environment (CE)
   • Take over from Mauri [1]
   • Installed in /site/12gev_phys
   • Docker [2]
     • New location of Dockerfile https://github.com/gemc/docker
     • Old location of Dockerfile https://gitlab.com/ESC/containers/-/tree/master/Docker/JLEIC/jlabce
   • Revive "Physics Software Support Committee"?
   • Meeting next week 5/15 bluejeans
5. Hall A/C Software support
6. JANA2
7. SRO Activities
   • EIC YR meeting last Wed. indico
   • EIC SRO Meeting tomorrow bluejeans indico
     • n.b. Software and Computing Round Table at same time bluejeans website
   • Workshop May 13-15
     • Talks on JANA2(David), CLARA(Vardan), data transport (Carl), TBD (David A.) indico
       • Data format?
   • EPSCI SR0 meeting at 2pm (MS Teams)
8. AOT

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Minutes:

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

Announcements

• Proposal for DOE FOA LAB_20-2261 has been submitted
• Some low-level parts of the Intel TBB package are being deprecated
  • HEP experiments use some of this and are needing to refactor
• Thomas and Graham (and Markus) had a meeting last week with the BNL + EIC folks to discuss use of the OSG
  • Working out details on oasis support for large numbers of jobs
  • Thomas spoke with Bryan H. this morning. Working out final details and will update Graham over next couple of days.
  • The older jlab.eic VO(=Virtual Organization) that was set up some time ago is being deprecated in preference to a non-lab-specific VO name.

JLabCE

• EPSCI will be taking over maintenance of the JLabCE Common Environment for 3rd party scientific software.
• Meeting on Friday next week to finalize details
• Will try and standardize use of "module load XXX" with appropriate meta packages for each Hall or group so they have control over their specific versions while providing a common interface for all Halls/groups

Hall A/C Software

• No one in our group has any experience with the software used in Hall-A/C so we need to start getting involved there
  • Carl was asked to volunteer to try compiling the code, but had mic issues so was not able to accept or decline (we assumed he accepted)
• Rumor is that Hall-A is investigating ways to implement multi-threading (not using JANA2)
  • We should become involved so we know what is driving their design choices and are available to help as needed.
  • David will send e-mail to Ole to introduce him to Nathan so he can find out the status of their testing and if they need any help

JANA2

• Work is still progressing and features are being implemented

SRO

• Graham and Jerome (BNL) have formed a committee of 2 to help build a road map of SRO development for EIC
  • Three main factions currently involved in EIC ERO that need to have roles clarified
    • SRO Consortium, Yellow Report Working Group, BNL DAQ group