NPPS Leadership Team

[Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Jamie asked for input on BNL EIC sw effort as input to the NP budgeting going on right now. Here's my first version. Comments appreciated. 

• 2020-2021: Yellow Report detector design and physics performance studies

• Software work in support:

• Community: detector simu, reco, analysis software

• Labs:

• software framework and toolkit for simu, reco

• fast simulation

• analysis tools 

• doc, tutorials

• software infrastructure

• distributed processing support (data and workload management)

2022-2026: Detector development, test beams

• Software work in support:

• Community: detector simu, reco, analysis software

• Community and lab

• integrating streaming DAQ and offline computing in online+offline processing workflows

Labs: as above

BNL EIC software effort

• Today: ½ FTE

• ½ FTE of computing infrastructure (Maxim) is the only dedicated effort at BNL (besides Torre time on coordination). Small fractions of people with commitments elsewhere. Particularly Chris leveraging sPHENIX software, Kolya supporting eic-smear, Alexander and Elke’s postdocs.

• in contrast, JLab has large fractions of Markus Diefenthaler (coordination, evgen), Dmitry Romanov (jupyter based interfaces, tutorials, simu and reco infrastructure), Julia Furletova (g4e simu framework), David Alexander and the Jana team (reco)

ASAP: increase to 2 FTE

• EIC is starting a new ‘greenfield’ framework/simu/reco development effort. If we want to play a role, we need effort

• Add 1 FTE ASAP framework/simu/reco developer to participate in greenfield effort

Bring computing support effort to 1 FTE. Effort up to now is mainly collaborative tools, websites etc. With software development consolidating to common community efforts, we need software support (repositories, releases, containers, documentation tools) and user support in addition.

2021: increase to 3.5 FTE

• Add a second dedicated software developer working both on common framework (including contributing to user support and documentation)  and BNL-specific software priorities as the detector collaboration(s) and institutional responsibilities take shape

• Add ½ FTE for processing support: distributed computing, platform porting, analysis processing. A small level that leverages existing activity.

2022-2026: flat planning for now, sustain  3.5 FTEs

Torre