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=== Agenda: ===
 
=== Agenda: ===
# [[EPSCI Group Meeting Mar. 22, 2021 | Previous meeting]]
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# [[EPSCI Group Meeting Feb. 22, 2021 | Previous meeting]]
 
# Announcements
 
# Announcements
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#* D&I (see below)
 
#* Michael Goodrich NEO (New Employee Orientation) starts today
 
#* Michael Goodrich NEO (New Employee Orientation) starts today
 
#* New Jupyterhub.jlab.org
 
#* New Jupyterhub.jlab.org
#** epsci-notebook
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#** epsci-notebook (Ubuntu 20.04.1; gcc 9.3.0; Tensorflow, etc. not installed)
#* D&I (see below)
 
 
#* [https://forms.gle/YWN28kYfeeLUyQ5N6 Virginia Science Bowl Volunteer] (MS: Mar 6)
 
#* [https://forms.gle/YWN28kYfeeLUyQ5N6 Virginia Science Bowl Volunteer] (MS: Mar 6)
 
#* [https://sea.ucar.edu/conference/2021 SEA'S IMPROVING SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE CONFERENCE AND TUTORIALS 2021] (Mar. 22-26)
 
#* [https://sea.ucar.edu/conference/2021 SEA'S IMPROVING SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE CONFERENCE AND TUTORIALS 2021] (Mar. 22-26)
#** Vardan: Streaming data processing from multiple satellite data sets under the NASA/GEWEX SRB project.
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#** Vardan: Streaming data processing from multiple satellite data sets under the NASA/GEWEX SRB project. (Mar. 26 @ 1pm)
 
#* [https://autonomous-discovery.lbl.gov/ Autonomous Discovery in Science and Engineering workshop] (April 20-22)
 
#* [https://autonomous-discovery.lbl.gov/ Autonomous Discovery in Science and Engineering workshop] (April 20-22)
 
#* [https://indico.cern.ch/event/948465/page/21488-bulletin-1 vCHEP2021] (May 17-21)
 
#* [https://indico.cern.ch/event/948465/page/21488-bulletin-1 vCHEP2021] (May 17-21)
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#* DAQ systems
 
#* DAQ systems
 
#** SRO
 
#** SRO
#*** SAMPA + ERSAP + INDRA-ASTRA
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#*** SAMPA + ERSAP + JANA2 + INDRA-ASTRA = April 1st
 
#** CODA (CODA3 support, EVIO-6)
 
#** CODA (CODA3 support, EVIO-6)
 
#* A.I.
 
#* A.I.
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#** GPU purchase for ENP
 
#** [https://www.overleaf.com/project/5f8d8d165f7a1900018fa7c4 A.I.I.] : [[Feb. 3, 2021 A.I.I. Planning]]
 
#** [https://www.overleaf.com/project/5f8d8d165f7a1900018fa7c4 A.I.I.] : [[Feb. 3, 2021 A.I.I. Planning]]
 
#** Experimental Controls
 
#** Experimental Controls
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=== Minutes: ===
 
=== Minutes: ===
  
Attendees: David L., Carl T., Nathan B., Kishan R., Vardan G., Thomas B.
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Attendees: David L., Carl T., Nathan B., Kishan R., Vardan G., Thomas B., Graham H.
  
 
* Announcements
 
* Announcements
** Kishan is here!!
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** All 3 vCHEP papers submitted
** It was noted that the new Jupyterhub instance contains some preliminary GPU support. Wes mentioned something about installing "tensorflow" instead of "tensorflow-gpu". Kishan noted that with the latest versions they have merged so now there is only "tensorflow".
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** New epsci@jlab.org mailing list created
  
 
* SRO
 
* SRO
** Productive meeting with TriDAS group last week
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** SAMPA+ERSAP+JANA2+INDRA-ASTRA
*** Task assignments made for TriDAS development
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*** Waiting on Ed to complete hardware setup. Vardan and Carl will talk with him offline.
*** Lengthy discussion about recent results of ERSAP testing by Vardan
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** VTP setup
** Spikes in missing framew from ERSAP test:
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*** Vardan has done some testing of the system
*** VTP firmware is now being developed by Ben and Dave to include more monitoring tools
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*** Ben R. setup pulser system to feed 2 programmable pulser signals to 32 fADC250 channels
** Chis L. event source now sending data read from files so payloads have properly formatted buffers
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**** The two pulser outputs can be synchronized or independent
** Carl is continuing to port and test the ERSAP Java code into C++
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**** System should be available this week
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** Carl has compiled the C++ version of ERSAP VTP software on computers outside of INDRA lab
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*** Need boost libraries installed in INDRA lab to compile it there
  
 
* CODA
 
* CODA
** Carl working on some issues with cMsg brought up by Dave A.
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** Carl has been working with Dave A. to get full CODA to compile with EVIO-6 release
** AFECS 4.1 release created
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** A feature of AFECS was built-in some time ago to look for dangling cMsg servers so they could be disabled/avoided
*** Extended COOL acomponent
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*** Dave A would like the frequency of the probe to be reduced and is working with Vardan on that
*** Numerous enhancements to help resolve pending feature requests
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*** Dave A. will check out and is responsible for formalizing the release with new CODA version
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* SPACK
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** David and Carl met last week to go over some of the work David has done on the SPACK deployment.
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*** Carl is working to absorb info with idea to include some CODA packages in the SPACK repository
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** Carl has been going through CERN online course on Docker
  
 
* AI
 
* AI
** Hydra vCHEP paper well underway
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** Thomas and Kishan met with Bryan. In consultation with Graham, they now have a potential plan for GPU purchase for the new farm.
** Cryptic teaser message from Amber on upcoming FOA
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*** Unable to use gamer cards in the farm so looking at things like P100's
** Expect decision on new hires for AI controls project at Thursday meeting this week
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*** Bryan is looking into prices
** Kishan and David met with Zisis and Cristiano last week to discuss GlueX BCAL shower classification problem.
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** Thomas has started going over Hydra paper with intent to release it for group-wide review sometime this week
*** They were going to send follow-up info, but we haven't seen it yet.
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** Kishan has been looking some code Nobuo sent.
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** Neutron/Photon classification problem for GlueX
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*** Student James Giroux plans to send some notebooks early this week
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** AI Experimental Controls
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*** Committee made some decisions but they depend on details being worked out.
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**** Don't expect to have anyone in place before April
  
* Offsite Computing
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* OSG
** GlueX PSC allocation is now exhausted. Awaiting results of new allocation proposal. If approved, we will not get access until April
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** Edgar replacement still filling out paperwork and going through training
** Some core dumps seen on rare occasions on GlueX NERSC jobs. No clues yet as to why.
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** Thomas will be sponsor so also has to go through training about host foreign nationals
** OSG
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** scosg20 to be rolled out soon(?)
*** Thomas is currently in the process of helping Edgar's replacement get accounts set up at JLab
 
*** osg16 node was causing some issues on Friday due to being overloaded with jobs. Will look into getting osg20 reconfigured to relieve some of the load.
 
*** Thomas reported that a GlueX collaborator (Peter Pauli) is now the first point of contact for MCWrapper issues in GlueX. He has been given some admin rights to repository/DB
 
  
* SPACK
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* JANA2
** David and Carl will meet this week to discuss moving forward with this
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** Nathan working on getting scons build system to work with JANA2 port of GlueX halld_recon
** Nathan now able to mount spack repository via cvmfs on his mac and then access it via Docker container. This provides an effectively local Linux platform for testing the cvmfs distributed spack binaries
 
  
 
* ACTS
 
* ACTS
** Nathan looked into using the ROOT7 event viewer which was claimed to work with the hits used by ACTS.
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** Pukai working to install libraries, but did not attempt to align with know set of version numbers from existing software stack
*** Several issues encountered. ROOT7 online viewer system seems buggy and not really ready for production use.
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** Switched him to use Docker
** Nathan working with a user (Carlos and Pukai sp?) on getting ACTS working in eJANA
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*** Experienced some issues so Dmitry release new image
*** Customer is trying to compile ACTS directly rather than use package manager like ejpm or spack
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** Meeting tomorrow morning with Nathan, David, Markus D., and Andreas Saltzberger of ACTS to discuss EIC + JANA2 + ACTS project.
*** Some discussion over striking the balance over providing large amounts of manpower to EIC to help achieve our common goal of having EIC adopt a JANA-based software stack vs. focussing manpower on other EPSCI projects.
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*** David and Nathan will meet today at 2pm to go over material prior to meeting
**** Nathan will continue strong support, but will cap it so that it does not occupy 100% of his time.
 
 
 
* CLARA
 
** rare stall issue for CLAS12 production jobs still not fully understood. It looks to be related to memory requests.
 
*** Need engine-specific monitoring to help diagnose issue
 
** CLARA 4.3.13 released.
 
*** A few code changes, but CLAS12 reports 20% performance improvement. Vardan attributes this almost entirely to building it with JDK11 which has better garbage collection.
 
 
 
* JANA2
 
** Docker + CVMFS mount will help with developing and testing against existing packages in the GlueX software stack.
 
** Getting ready to work on getting scons build system to work with JANA2 GlueX port (development has been done under cmake).
 

Latest revision as of 21:56, 1 March 2021

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Agenda:

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

D&I Message from 2/18/2021 (Click "Expand" to the right for details -->):

A message from Gina Lawson on Jefferson Lab's D&I Program Lead:

As some of you may know from the Weekly Briefs, Jefferson Lab's D&I Program Lead and members of Leadership are facilitating demographic focus group meetings that focus on groups at the lab that scored the lab lower during the 2020 D&I Survey. The goal of these meetings is to gain additional feedback from staff members belonging to these focus groups so that Leadership is aware of the issues, and solutions can be generated to alleviate these problems when able.

I was hoping since you all work closely with your groups/divisions, you would be able to help me in getting the word out to staff within your group, so those who will want to participate are aware of these meetings and are able to attend.

Also, there is a meeting scheduled specifically for Administrative Assistants to be held on March 2nd.

Here is the information for each of the remaining scheduled meetings:

Feb. 18: Veteran Status - Will Oren
Feb. 19: Role (Technicians) - Andrei Seryi
Feb. 23: Age/Generation - Amber Boehnlein
Feb. 25: Race - Lauren Hansen
Feb. 26: Gender - Jennifer Logan
Mar. 2: Role (Admin Assistant) - Stephen Smith
Mar. 10: Role (Staff Admin) - Stephen Smith
Mar. 16: Disability - Rusty Sprouse

Meeting links are included in the calendar event links for each event listed above.

Please let me know if you have any questions or have any concerns. Thank you! Gina

Rachel Harris Administrator Support Physics & IT Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Science Associates, LLC 757-269-5345 harris@jlab.org


Minutes:

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

  • Announcements
    • All 3 vCHEP papers submitted
    • New epsci@jlab.org mailing list created
  • SRO
    • SAMPA+ERSAP+JANA2+INDRA-ASTRA
      • Waiting on Ed to complete hardware setup. Vardan and Carl will talk with him offline.
    • VTP setup
      • Vardan has done some testing of the system
      • Ben R. setup pulser system to feed 2 programmable pulser signals to 32 fADC250 channels
        • The two pulser outputs can be synchronized or independent
        • System should be available this week
    • Carl has compiled the C++ version of ERSAP VTP software on computers outside of INDRA lab
      • Need boost libraries installed in INDRA lab to compile it there
  • CODA
    • Carl has been working with Dave A. to get full CODA to compile with EVIO-6 release
    • A feature of AFECS was built-in some time ago to look for dangling cMsg servers so they could be disabled/avoided
      • Dave A would like the frequency of the probe to be reduced and is working with Vardan on that
  • SPACK
    • David and Carl met last week to go over some of the work David has done on the SPACK deployment.
      • Carl is working to absorb info with idea to include some CODA packages in the SPACK repository
    • Carl has been going through CERN online course on Docker
  • AI
    • Thomas and Kishan met with Bryan. In consultation with Graham, they now have a potential plan for GPU purchase for the new farm.
      • Unable to use gamer cards in the farm so looking at things like P100's
      • Bryan is looking into prices
    • Thomas has started going over Hydra paper with intent to release it for group-wide review sometime this week
    • Kishan has been looking some code Nobuo sent.
    • Neutron/Photon classification problem for GlueX
      • Student James Giroux plans to send some notebooks early this week
    • AI Experimental Controls
      • Committee made some decisions but they depend on details being worked out.
        • Don't expect to have anyone in place before April
  • OSG
    • Edgar replacement still filling out paperwork and going through training
    • Thomas will be sponsor so also has to go through training about host foreign nationals
    • scosg20 to be rolled out soon(?)
  • JANA2
    • Nathan working on getting scons build system to work with JANA2 port of GlueX halld_recon
  • ACTS
    • Pukai working to install libraries, but did not attempt to align with know set of version numbers from existing software stack
    • Switched him to use Docker
      • Experienced some issues so Dmitry release new image
    • Meeting tomorrow morning with Nathan, David, Markus D., and Andreas Saltzberger of ACTS to discuss EIC + JANA2 + ACTS project.
      • David and Nathan will meet today at 2pm to go over material prior to meeting