EPSCI Group Meeting Apr. 20, 2020

The meeting time is 10:00am.

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Agenda:

1. Previous meeting
2. Software Licenses
3. A.I. Hire
4. DOE FOA
5. SRO Activities
   • YR meeting last Wed.
     • https://indico.bnl.gov/event/8222/
   • Workshop May 13-15
     • Invitation for JANA2
     • Inquired about additional invitations
     • https://www.jlab.org/indico/event/378/
   • EPSCI SR0 meeting at 2pm (MS Teams)
   • Ivica Fiscic - MIT postdoc working 50% EIC
6. JANA2
   • Talk at Marco's meeting Thurs.
7. AOT

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Minutes:

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

AI Hire

• Hiring committee had first meeting last week
• A couple of potential candidates identified
• Process is at least moving

DOE FOA

• Significant progress (thanks largely to Thomas (and Megan for occupying Declan))
• Finishing up final draft which will may be done tomorrow COB
• Hope to submit on Friday

SRO

• Last week's YR meeting:
  • Markus presented plan to match LHCb which does all data processing online
  • Someone in EIC has done a calculation that indicates saving all data is feasible
    • Not 100% clear how since detector is not fully designed yet
    • Unlikely no one will ever ask for more data so designing to edge of ability seems unwise
• EIC postdoc Ivica Fiscic
  • Originally discussed casually between Graham and Rik ~18 months ago
  • Recently became (re)aware of arrangement to have 50% of an MIT postdoc work on SRO related EIC activities
  • David and Doug H. met with Ivica and suggested he work on EIC simulation and AI modeling of trigger with eventual goal of implementing in FPGA.

JANA2

• Nathan gave an overview of JANA2 and some with some emphasis on how JANA2 differs from JANA1
• Carl noted the disrupter package that provides "lockless", very fast queues
  • It is a C++ port of a java package
• Nathan will give an enhanced version of this talk on Thursday at Marco's SRO meeting