EPSCI Group Meeting Jun. 15, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Announcements
   • CST Division
   • Credit time reset after June 30th timesheet (click "Leave" in middle of timesheet)
   • Beam delivery for physics starts July 27th(ish)
   • JLab User's Group Meeting: Mon. 6/22 - Wed. 6/24
     • webpage w/ registration link (free, but passcode required to join)
3. Publications
   • CHEP19 Proceedings
   • Fortnight Paper
     • Qudi: A modular python suite for experiment control and data processing
       • Discussion 6/29
4. JLab Common Environment (CE)
   • Meeting Friday 5/15
   • Meet w/ Mauri at 11am today
5. NERSC Activity support
6. Ongoing Activities
   • Hall A/C Software support (Carl T.)
   • EVIO-6 (Carl T.)
   • JANA2 (Nathan B.)
   • MCWrapper + OSG (Thomas B.)
   • SRO Activities (Vardan G.)
   • JLUO Annual Meeting Markus D. talk on SRO
     • Requested:
       • I will ask the hall leaders and Chris for input.
       • I will report on JANA2 for streaming readout and the work on the data format and ZeroMQ messaging. Could you please send me some slides for the JANA2+CLARA system you have in mind? What other topics from your group should I cover?
       • Graham, may I use your writeup on streaming readout as input for my presentation?
     • EPSCI SR0 meeting at 2pm (MS Teams)
7. AOT

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Minutes:

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

GPU Resources at JLab

• Graham looking at what GPU resources would be needed/appropriate for the SciComp farm
• Nubuo et al. working on reproducing CLAS6 e- p -> e- p π⁺ π^- results
• David noted NERSC will be GPU heavy after Perlmutter upgrade so software will need to leverage it in order to take advantage
• Thomas noted some GPUs are available currently on OSG
• Cloud is also possible for temporary stop-gap

EVIO-6

• Still working on porting EVIO-4 code to C++

JANA2

• GlueX port to JANA2 progression
• ACTS - EIC meeting on Wed.

MCWrapper

• Incorporating config. files for managing an MCWrapper instance temporarily on hold while higher priority tasks are addressed
• Move to python3 has encountered issues with RCDB and CCDB
• CVMFS JLab share on oasis final testing underway
• Documents for formalizing JLab VO(virtual organization) on OSG sent to Graham and Bryan

A.I.

• Thomas scheduled to give talk on 6/24
• Series of invited talks underway at A.I. Lunch Series

SRO

• Working on Java stream source (helps in preparing for streaming CLAS12 data)
• CLON (CLAS Online) server went offline Wed. and as of this morning, it is not yet up
• Able to compile and run Graham's software for emulating VTP source

Misc.

• Thomas, Vardan, and Carl all expecting to take some time off over the next week