NPPS Leadership Team

[Alexander Kiselev <kisselev AT mail.desy.de>]

  Torre,

  this all sounds good to me. The person at JLAB is David Lawrence, not 
David Alexander :-)

  Cheers,
    Alexander.



On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Torre Wenaus via Phys-npps-mgmt-l wrote:

> 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:
>
>          o 
>
>             Community: detector simu, reco, analysis software
>
>          o 
>
>             Labs:
>
>              o 
>
>                 software framework and toolkit for simu, reco
>
>              o 
>
>                 fast simulation
>
>              o 
>
>                 analysis tools 
>
>              o 
>
>                 doc, tutorials
>
>              o 
>
>                 software infrastructure
>
>              o 
>
>                 distributed processing support (data and workload management)
>
>  * 
>
>     2022-2026: Detector development, test beams
>
>      + 
>
>         Software work in support:
>
>          o 
>
>             Community: detector simu, reco, analysis software
>
>          o 
>
>             Community and lab
>
>              o 
>
>                 integrating streaming DAQ and offline computing in 
> online+offline processing workflows
>
>          o 
>
>             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
>
>          o 
>
>             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