EPSCI Group Meeting Jun. 1, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Announcements
   • Credit time reset after June 30th timesheet (click "Leave" in middle of timesheet)
   • Overleaf licenses( contact an admin to start new paper)
   • A.I. New Hire
   • Software and Computing Round Table June 2 @ 11:00am (indico bluejeans)
3. JLab Common Environment (CE)
   • Meeting Friday 5/15
4. Ongoing Activities
   • Hall A/C Software support (Carl T.)
   • EVIO-6 (Carl T.)
   • JANA2 (Nathan B.)
   • MCWrapper + OSG (Thomas B.)
   • SRO Activities (Vardan G.)
     • Workshop May 13-15
     • EPSCI SR0 meeting at 2pm (MS Teams)
5. AOT

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Minutes:

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

Announcements

• Thomas: xrootd server is now stood up and available for general use
  • Probably need documentation on a CC webpage somewhere

JLab CE

• No significant movement on this
• Need to study spack and come up with a plan on implementing it at JLab

EVIO-6

• C++ version now compiles, but not tested yet
• Few things left to tidy up
• estimate still 1 month more of development/testing

Hall A/C Software

• Carl reached out to Bob M. who pointed him to Ole
• No momentum yet

JANA2

• Nathan will dedicating significant time to start GlueX port this week
• Successful hand off of ACTS (tracking) software effort in EIC to Dmitry
  • Some new features for JANA2 will be added due to that experience

MCWrapper

• New release is out
  • Adds (optional) post-event-generator/pre-simulation processing task
• xrootd
• Data Federation for EIC (stashcache )
• CVMFS + OSG
  • Creating JLab Virtual Organization that will eventually replace the GlueX Virtual Organization set up by Richard Jones
  • question of hosting CVMFS share for JLab VO on oasis or JLab decided (it will be oasis)
• Looking into allowing OSG jobs to run on JLab farm
  • Motivated by collaboration on EIC with BNL

SRO

• Vardan and Dave A. investigating new Arista switch that could potentially replace CSA software component
  • Includes user-programmable FPGA that can be used to process network traffic
• Online reconstruction of CLAS12 data
  • Held up by expensive conversion from EVIO to HIPPO (~4Hz/core)