EPSCI Group Meeting Mar. 22, 2021

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting

2. Announcements
   • DE-FOA-0002490 $50k-$2M for 2 years. Meeting Thur@2pm bluejeans
   • SC_FOA_0002482 $100k-$2M/year for 3 years. Meeting Mon@3pm
   • Fortnight paper for Mar. 29: HEP-Frame: Improving the efficiency of pipelined data transformation & filtering for scientific analyses

3. Conferences and Workshops
   • Workshop: CFNS-ANL Joint Workshop on Instrumenting the 2nd IR at the EIC (Mar. 17-19)
   • 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. (Mar. 26 @ 1pm)
   • Autonomous Discovery in Science and Engineering workshop (April 20-22)
   • vCHEP2021 (May 17-21)
     • Thomas, Kishan: Hydra
     • Vardan, Nathan, David (+Hall-B, Fast Electronics, and TriDAS groups): TriDAS + JANA2 SRO
     • David: HOSS!
   • ACAT2021 (Nov. 29 - Dec. 3)

4. Ongoing Activities
   • Scientific Software support
     • JLab Common Environment (CE) + SPACK
       • ServiceNow (mapmanager, fputil, fpack, bos, bankdef)
       • HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Everyone please read the Quickstart Instructions and test the system. Report any issues.
     • EIC
       • ACTS
       • Collaboration with ANL
     • Offline frameworks (CLARA, JANA2)
   • Data Transport
     • Meetings Tue., Wed., and Fri.
   • DAQ systems
     • SRO
       • SAMPA + ERSAP + JANA2 + INDRA-ASTRA = April 1st
     • CODA (CODA3 support, EVIO-6)
   • A.I.
     • GPU purchase for ENP
     • Hydra paper
     • Jupyterhub + GPU
       • David's notes on using venv
     • Experimental Controls
   • Offsite Computing
     • NERSC, PSC, IU
       • XSEDE application for PSC bridges-2 declined
     • OSG
5. AOT

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Minutes:

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

• Announcements

• SPACK
  • CODA packages basically ready to go
  • Need to set permissions on epsci-spack repository on GitHub to allow others to commit
  • Some issue with last few packages from JLabCE 2.4
    • build system not fully contained in source tarballs
• ACTS