EPSCI Group Meeting Apr. 27, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Software Licenses
3. A.I.
   • New Hire
   • AITO meeting
4. DOE FOA
5. SRO Activities
   • EIC YR meeting this Wed.
     • https://indico.bnl.gov/event/8341/
   • Workshop May 13-15
     • Talks on JANA2(David), CLARA(Vardan), data transport (Carl)
     • https://www.jlab.org/indico/event/378/
   • EPSCI SR0 meeting at 2pm (MS Teams)
6. JANA2
7. AOT

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Minutes:

Attendees: David L.(chair), Carl T., Nathan B., Thomas B., Vardan G., Graham H.

Announcements

• Still no firm dates on when lab will reopen
  • Will follow reverse medcon steps so we will most likely be last group
  • Rules for meetings will likely change support social distancing
• AITO (A.I. & Technology Office under Office of Science at DOE) meeting this week

FOA

• Basically complete. Will be submitted within next few days

MCWrapper

• Supporting EIC on OSG
• Ying (as reported by Thomas):
  • Has a rough draft draft of website (demo shown at Jie's meeting last week)
  • GUI w/o backend at the moment (Thomas will provide backend)
  • Help with GlueX running at NERSC

NERSC

• A request was made from GlueX to help support NERSC activities
  • Take over monitoring of day to day of job progress.
  • Not clear we IT can commit X FTE's to this, or that it saves that much from GlueX
• David will continue to write proposals for NERSC computing resources for JLab ENP program

JANA2

• Now supporting generic object factories (i.e. algorithms generating objects that don't inherit from JObject)
• Working on parallel event sources
• Several additional, new features coming soon