EPSCI Group Meeting Apr. 13, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

Previous meeting
Software Licenses
A.I. Hire
DOE FOA (NLA?)
SRO Activities
- YR meeting Wed.
  - https://indico.bnl.gov/event/8222/
  - https://bluejeans.com/407968302
- Next YR meeting in about 1 month. BNL and JLab will present ongoing activities
- EPSCI SR0 meeting at 2pm (MS Teams)
JANA2
- Quarterly report and FY20 milestones
Legacy software support
AOT

Minutes:

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

Software Licenses

Gitkraken and CLion licenses have been purchased and distributed to all group members
Nathan and Thomas missed the spam-like e-mail notifying them of their licenses for gitkraken, but found them during the meeting
Everyone now has JLab-purchased CLion and gitkraken license good for the next year

A.I. Hire

14 applications so far
will form committee this week and start deciding who to invite for an interview

DOE FOA

Rough draft complete and out for comments
Will try finish off all auxiliary parts this week so it can be submitted next week

SRO

There will be an EIC Yellow Report meeting on Wed.
- One on current reconstruction software options
- One on COMPASS SRO system being developed
There will be another EIC YR meeting in about 1 month
- JLab and BNL will give presentations on current SRO activities
- Not clear how this overlaps with the Stream Readout VI workshop May 13-15
Vardan has pared down his list of questions for TriDAS experts to 3 or 4
- Available on SharePoint document
- Will discuss at SRO meeting this afternoon before sending

JANA2

Working to meet milestones for LDRD FY20
Nathan will give 20-30 minute talk at EPSCI group meeting next week
- Some focus on differences between JANA1 and JANA2
Nathan will also prepare slides on SRO features of JANA2 for Marco's meeting a week from Thursday

Legacy Software

Carl gave update on new EVIO C++ development
- Still climbing some of C++ learning curve
- Ported Tree class from JAVA to C++ so the C++ implementation can be kept more consistent with Java implementation
Vardan gave an update on CODA support
- FIPA-based intelligent agents
- GUI component
- COOL language for describing CODA state machine with new jcedit
- Supporting JDK-11
Vardan also noted some work on porting CLARA to JDK-11
- expected 15% performance improvement but did not see at first
- resolved issue with incorrect JVM version running and now observe expected improvements
- full benchmarking of CLAS12 code still needed
Thomas gave an update on MCWrapper
- SLURM support now included
- Now able to run standard GlueX container on JLab SciComp farm (was only used for offsite before)
- Thomas is now JLab contact for OSG VO (used to be Sandy)