EPSCI Group Meeting Feb. 15, 2021

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Announcements
   • Michael Goodrich starts Mar. 1st!
   • SciComp announcement (see below agenda)
   • vCHEP2021 (paper submission closes Feb. 28)
     • Thomas, Kishan: Hydra
     • Nathan, David: TriDAS + JANA2 SRO
     • David: HOSS!
     • Vardan: ERSAP Beam Test Hall-B
   • SEA'S IMPROVING SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE CONFERENCE AND TUTORIALS 2021 (abstract submission deadline: Jan. 10th)
     • Vardan: NASA/CLARA
   • Virginia Science Bowl Volunteer (MS: Mar 6)
   • Fortnight paper for Feb. 15: We're going to discuss oneAPI

3. Ongoing Activities
   • A.I.
     • Early Career Award Proposal - Thomas
     • Hydra
     • A.I.I. : Feb. 3, 2021 A.I.I. Planning
     • Experimental Controls
   • Offsite Computing
     • NERSC, PSC, IU
     • OSG
   • DAQ systems
     • SRO
     • CODA (CODA3 support, EVIO-6)
   • Scientific Software support
     • JLab Common Environment (CE) + SPACK
       • ServiceNow (mapmanager, fputil, fpack, bos, bankdef)
     • Offline frameworks (CLARA, JANA2)
   • Experiment Support
     • EIC (EIC Software Expression of Interest meeting 1/27)
     • CPP
     • SOLID
4. Publications
   • CHEP2019 Proceedings are now published
   • Hydra Publication
5. AOT

 Tomorrow, as part of the monthly scheduled maintenance, the following changes will be made to the Scientific
 Computing environment:
 
 - At 9:00am there will be a brief interruption of network traffic to scientific computing networks
   to switch over to new firewalls. For traffic that is firewalled, capacity will be increased to 10Gbit/sec.
 - The default version of Singularity will be updated to 3.7.1 and 3.7.0-rc2 will be removed
 - CMake will be updated to a default version of 3.19.4
 - GPUs for notebooks will be made available as a beta feature in on Jupyterhub, https://jupyterhub.jlab.org

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