EJFAT EPSCI Meeting Oct. 9, 2024

The meeting time is 2:30pm.

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Meeting ID
273 279 114 915

Passcode
Rkypzi

Agenda:

1. Previous meeting

2. Announcements:
   1. ACAT 2024 Paper - In Review
   2. U280’s are discontinued.
      1. New LB purchases U55C
      2. U55C bitfiles available 1 year out
      3. U280 Supported indefinitely
3. Status
4. Topics
   1. IRI Test Development:
      1. New Test Thursday Oct 10, 14:30 - 15:30
      2. LB version = ESnet ??? version
      3. Data Source:
         1. JLAB, CLAS12, pre-triggered events - 1 channel
      4. Data Sink:
         1. Perlmutter - 40 nodes
         2. ORNL/ESnet/JLab IRI Testbed / Defiant - 4 nodes allocated
         3. JLab - 7 nodes available
         4. ERSAP
      5. Test Plans - JLab, ESnet, NERSC:
      6. Prometheus Dashboards
      7. The Prometheus dashboard can be accessed on port 1717 of the ejfat-fs node. The test data is located at "100g-nersc-ornl / ejfat-nersc-ornl". The test time interval is around UTC 17:05 to 18:20 on August 29, 2024. To log in to Grafana, please use the username and password "ejfat".
   2. JLab FEG/SRO
      1. will use interim UDP solution for event sync
      2. Special Events Issue - Completely Out-of-band
         1. Cloud Based message queue
         2. LB isolation from any non-LB processing
   3. E2SAR
      1. e2sar/ibaldin:0.1.02 available - MVP completed
      2. ejfat-5 reserved for E2SAR
      3. E2SAR 0.1.0 .deb packages for Ubuntu 20, 22 and 24 are now available (they contain e2sar library, headers, executables as well as appropriate versions of gRPC and Boost dependencies, all installed under /usr/local), as well as the latest Docker image
   4. IB
   5. ejfat-3 - two FPGA DP built, running - with 4-port LAG at switch, needs CP installation
   6. ejfat-6 - Ubuntu 24.04 installed - esnet-smartnic-fw build succeeds with podman, issues with podman compose
   7. SC poster submitted - demo in works
   8. SSD drives on ejfat-fs - 20TB used of 28TB - mounted for EJFAT farm
   9. Ram Disks: 1TB Total Mem on ejfat-fs, 0.5 TB others
   10. Disk sdb - user storage or HA OS fail-over mirror?
   11. Experiment Halls - beam returns late January/February 2025
   12. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - support ends in 2025
5. Resources:
   1. HPDF
   2. EJFAT API
   3. EJFAT Status
6. AOT

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