NPPS Leadership Team

[Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>]

Oops again! ATLAS has a David Alexander :-) Note to self... don't rely on memory!

  Torre

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 3:45 PM Alexander Kiselev <kisselev AT mail.desy.de> wrote:

   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. 
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>  *
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>     2020-2021: Yellow Report detector design and physics performance studies
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>      +
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>         Software work in support:
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>          o
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>             Community: detector simu, reco, analysis software
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>          o
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>             Labs:
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>              o
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>                 software framework and toolkit for simu, reco
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>              o
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>                 fast simulation
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>              o
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>                 analysis tools 
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>              o
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>                 doc, tutorials
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>              o
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>                 software infrastructure
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>              o
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>                 distributed processing support (data and workload management)
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>  *
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>     2022-2026: Detector development, test beams
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>      +
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>         Software work in support:
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>          o
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>             Community: detector simu, reco, analysis software
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>          o
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>             Community and lab
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>              o
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>                 integrating streaming DAQ and offline computing in online+offline processing workflows
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>          o
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>             Labs: as above
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> BNL EIC software effort
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>  *
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>     Today: ½ FTE
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>      +
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>         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.
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>      +
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>         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)
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>  *
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>     ASAP: increase to 2 FTE
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>      +
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>         EIC is starting a new ‘greenfield’ framework/simu/reco development effort. If we want to play a role, we need effort
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>          o
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>             Add 1 FTE ASAP framework/simu/reco developer to participate in greenfield effort
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>      +
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>         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.
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>  *
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>     2021: increase to 3.5 FTE
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>      +
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>         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
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>      +
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>         Add ½ FTE for processing support: distributed computing, platform porting, analysis processing. A small level that leverages existing activity.
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>  *
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>     2022-2026: flat planning for now, sustain  3.5 FTEs
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> Torre
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