NPPS Leadership Team

[Brett Viren <bv AT bnl.gov>]

Paul's words ring good to me.  We should not fail to meet BelleII
obligations!  If "borrowing" from BelleII is taking a toll we better
find ways to pay back.

That said.... :)

Paul and I have talked about tackling some work involving Wire-Cell
Toolkit for multi-host I/O and GPU sharing between multi-threaded WCT
apps.  In addition to the more main tasks, we were thinking to engage
this idea to shore up a full human post-doc with major funding from DUNE
computing and minor (1/4) from some funds freed up by CSI paying 1/2 of
one of EDG's postdocs.  Strict accounting gives funds for 1.25 FTE
post-doc and then maybe with Hong's largess that could become 2.0
humans.  You said "creative" but maybe I answer with "crazy"....  

My only other thought is even more vague.  EDG is in the process of
hiring a new staff scientist who, hopefully, brings their own novel
agenda to the group.  In particular, issues related to the DUNE near
detector complex have been so far somewhat less of a focus by EDG and
there is a fair chance the new person may bring needed focus to the near
detector.  This potentially brings in all new opportunities for BNL to
expand further into DUNE.  What/who/how? I dunno.  Of course, we won't
know for sure what becomes of this hire until well after you need to
tell Hong something so this might be useless info.


That's all I got, such as it is.

-Brett.


Torre Wenaus via Phys-npps-mgmt-l <phys-npps-mgmt-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
writes:

> Hi,
>
> From Hong...
>
> As you may already know, the NPP Strategic Planning process is on-going.  
> Jamie and I are asked to identify the investment needed for HEP and NP 
> programs in PO.  By investment, we usually mean what
> we need to do to ensure the future beyond the current programs.  It can be 
> supported by the current programmatic funding, LDRD, PD, DOE FOAs or 
> SPP.Can you provide some input on what investments
> may be needed in software, before the end of the week?
>
> ...Creative input appreciated! :-) Notice is extremely short of course.
>
> (would I want this mail and this discussion going to *anyone* in SDCC, 
> under present conditions? No. Very clarifying :-)
>
>   Torre
>
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