EJFAT Group Meeting Nov 7, 2024

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting

2. Announcements:
   1. SuperComputing24 Atlanta, GA from Nov 17-22, 2024
   2. Mike PD Duty 11/06/2024 - 11/20/2024
3. Topics
   1. IRI Test Development:
      1. Last Test Thursday Oct 10
      2. Next Test Date/Time = ?????
         1. ESnet Beta Lineup on FPGAs:  FW @ 3aa897b2 + HW @ 57684
         2. CP version = latest develop ???
      3. Data Source:
         1. JLAB, CLAS12, pre-triggered events - 1 channel
      4. Data Sink:
         1. Perlmutter - 80 nodes
         2. ORNL/ESnet/JLab IRI Testbed / Defiant - 4 nodes allocated
         3. JLab - 7 nodes available
         4. FABRIC - nodes available
         5. ERSAP
      5. Test Plans - JLab, ESnet, NERSC:
   2. ALS: Next is Tech Talk
   3. 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. Cloud solutions include Kafka and RabbitMQ, ...
   4. E2SAR 0.1.2
      1. segmentation/reassembly complete
      2. .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
   5. SC poster submitted - demo in works
   6. Experiment Halls - beam returns late January/February 2025
   7. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - support ends in 2025 - next ESnet target 22.04
4. Status
   1. ejfat-1 - 2-port LAG at switch
   2. ejfat-3 - two FPGA DP built, running - 4-port LAG at switch, FW containers built (Stacey), needs CP installation
   3. ejfat-6 - Ubuntu 24.04 installed - esnet-smartnic-fw build succeeds with podman, issues with podman compose
   4. /dev/sdb is now mounted on all systems at /scratch, with the exception of EJFAT-4.
5. EJFAT Phase II
6. AOT