EJFAT EPSCI Meeting Oct. 23, 2024
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The meeting time is 2:30pm.
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Agenda:
- Previous meeting
- Announcements:
- Status
- Topics
- Docker containers on reboot
- IRI Test Development:
- Last Test Thursday Oct 10
- LB version = ESnet ??? version
- Data Source:
- JLAB, CLAS12, pre-triggered events - 1 channel
- Data Sink:
- Perlmutter - 40 nodes
- ORNL/ESnet/JLab IRI Testbed / Defiant - 4 nodes allocated
- JLab - 7 nodes available
- FABRIC - nodes available
- ERSAP
- Test Plans - JLab, ESnet, NERSC:
- Prometheus Dashboards
- 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".
- JLab FEG/SRO
- will use interim UDP solution for event sync
- Special Events Issue - Completely Out-of-band
- Cloud Based message queue
- LB isolation from any non-LB processing
- E2SAR 0.1.2
- ejfat-5 reserved for E2SAR
- segmentation/reassembly complete
- .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
- Special Events: Site Issue: Cloud solutions include CAFCA, RabbitMsg, ...
- ALS: Next is Tech Talk
- IB
- ejfat-3 - two FPGA DP built, running - with 4-port LAG at switch, needs CP installation
- ejfat-6 - Ubuntu 24.04 installed - esnet-smartnic-fw build succeeds with podman, issues with podman compose
- SC poster submitted - demo in works
- Storage
- SSD drives on ejfat-fs - 20TB used of 28TB - mounted for EJFAT farm
- Ram Disks: 1TB Total Mem on ejfat-fs, 0.5 TB others
- Repurposing /dev/sdb to be used for user storage
- Storage Areas NOT to be backed up could be marked as scratch
- Have an opportunity to consolidate wares on SSD for consistent SC backup procedure ?.
- Experiment Halls - beam returns late January/February 2025
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - support ends in 2025 - next ESnet target 22.04
- CP: Control Web UI (127.0.0.1) needs SSH tunnel
- EJFAT II: New CP-DP APIs for config available for current current FW (?)
- ESnet interested in partnering for beachhead in FPGA/GPU AI space
- Separate Project
- FAST program coming up
- May get free help from Xilinx
- Might target VERSA release
- Resources:
- U280’s are discontinued.
- New LB purchases U55C
- U55C bitfiles available 1 year out
- U280 Supported indefinitely
- ACAT 2024 Paper - In Review
- AOT