EPSCI Group Meeting Dec. 14, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Announcements
   • vCHEP2021
   • SEA'S IMPROVING SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE CONFERENCE AND TUTORIALS 2021
   • Virginia Science Bowl Volunteer
   • Streaming Data Scientist position
   • AI Experimental Controls Post-doc
   • AI Experimental Controls CS/DS
   • Fortnight paper for Dec. 21:

     Development of FPGA based phase alignment logic for the high speed protocol in HEP Experiments

   • Today is last EPSCI group Meeting of 2020!
3. Ongoing Activities
   • JLab Common Environment (CE) + SPACK (Thomas, Nathan)
     • ServiceNow INC0032157
   • CODA/DAQ Software Support
     • EVIO-6 (Carl)
   • CLARA Support
   • JANA2 (Nathan)
     • GlueX port
     • ACTS + EIC
   • A.I.
     • Hydra (Kishan/Thomas)
     • A.I.I.
     • Experimental Controls (David)
   • SRO (Vardan)
     • Hall-B/D TriDAS
     • ERSAP
   • Offsite Computing
     • BigRed3 at IU (David)
     • NERSC (David)
       • Award announcement: 119M units requested, 37M units awarded
     • OSG (Thomas)
4. Publications
   • CHEP2019 Proceedings are now published
5. AOT

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Minutes:

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

• CODA DAQ
  • Minor problem with JDK from Steve Wood (resolved)
  • Feature request to add user script to AFECS reset, pause and resume events
    • Working but needs to be verified/debugged with Dave
  • GUI menu item allows user-specified external process but needs to have stdout captured and presented to user

• CLARA
  • Request to have user-specific directory created at CLARA install time to allow user services to supercede standard ones. (Requested Jan. Deadline)
  • Request for stream orchestrator.
    • Timeout attached to every engine in stream chain to make it easier to diagnose where holdups occur.

• JANA2
  • Debugging GlueX port led to journey into spack
  • Big merge coming soon

• ACTS - EIC
  • Nathan will schedule meeting this week

• AI
  • Hydra paper started First draft expected by Friday
  • Kishan upgrading last component of Hydra
  • Benchmarking: will attempt before break
  • Conference
  • Problem of the Quarter presentations

• SRO
  • Vardan worked with Chris L. last week to benchmark some ERSAP services using software source
  • Sergey B. is planning to restore Hall-B test setup (eventually)
  • INDRA lab
    • 300 MB/s per stream
    • Still working to compile ATLAS code for SAMPA system (some issues communication with authors)

• OSG
  • Jobs running at JLab: accounting is now in place
  • Publication in the works