EPSCI Group Meeting Oct. 19, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Announcements
   • Streaming Data Scientist position
   • Fortnight paper meeting next week - Coding standards
3. Real Time 2020
4. SoLID Software Status
5. Ongoing Activities
   • EVIO-6 (Carl)
   • JANA2 (Nathan)
     • GlueX port
   • A.I.
     • JLab AI webpage (Kishan)
     • Hydra (Kishan/Thomas)
     • Experimental Controls (David)
   • SRO (Vardan)
     • ERSAP
     • Hall-B/D TriDAS
   • JLab Common Environment (CE) + SPACK (Thomas)
   • Offsite Computing
     • BigRed3 at IU (David)
     • NERSC (David)
     • OSG (Thomas)
6. GUI for Calorimeter calibration scripts (Hall-D Request) (Thomas)
7. Publications
8. Coding Standards
   • Netherland eScience Center Guide
9. AOT

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Minutes:

Attendees: David L., Carl T., Nathan B., Thomas B., Kishan R., Vardan G.

Fortnight Meeting

• Coding standards discussion next week. Read up!

RT2020

• Vardan attending
  • Operational vs. Informational Technology
  • Lots of efforts to put intelligence closer to detectors
  • MLS4ML - CERN tool to convert models from most common packages to form suitable for accelerators (e.g. GPUS)

EVIO-6

• Carl out of town last week
• Documentation
  • Will work on integrating Doxygen comments into the produced ReadTheDocs pages this week.

JANA2

• EVIO event sources working
• Working on hd_dump and hd_root to start consistency checks with original JANA

A.I.

• JLab AI website
  • Some changes submitted by Kishan. (David still needs to approve)
• Hydra
  • Kishan restructuring predict script to use classes and make it more flexible for 3rd party users
  • Goal to have a paper written this year
    • Working on a publishable form of the code by then so it can be referenced
    • Thomas has almost completed a draft of the introduction in Overleaf

SRO

• Vardan is porting many of the streaming microservices to C++
• Will consult with Carl as needed since given his recent experience with related algorithms such as highly efficient ring buffers.
• Vardan has provided some slides needed for Marco's talk on Thursday (David needs to supply some as well.)

DAQ

• Vardan enhancing the filtering feature of the CODA Message Browser at the request of Bryan Moffit. He needs it to help debug some issues in Hall-A/C.

SPACK

• No time to work on this during the past week

MCWrapper

• Thomas has integrated support for JEF (JLab Eta Factory experiment) into MCWrapper at their request.
• GlueX has requested feature to add a custom JANA config file to MCWrapper jobs.

Offsite Computing

• IU - Big Red3
  • Initial SWIF2 integration complete, though still working out issues with getting first job to run
• NERSC
  • Met with NERSC analyst, Chris L.;, and Jie C. on Friday to discuss multi-job jobs. Better understanding of problem and possible solutions. We now have a plan to work towards a solution.
• OSG
  • Wes was told by Edgar to open a ticket once things were set up on the JLab end. This has been done, but no further word yet.
  • Possible first jobs could come in this week to run on the 4 dedicated OSG-dev nodes. Depends on schedule of Wes and Edgar when it will be completely ready.