AID2E bi-weekly general meeting

Meeting: January 13, 2026

• Announcements
  • CHEP 2026 abstract submission was noted.
• Phase I
  • The group reviewed the decision to develop a unified AID2E-framework.
  • All four optimization efforts were reported to support PanDA-iDDS workflows, though argument standardization for ePIC and optimization still needed work.
  • The framework was planned around modules for optimizers, schedulers, utilities, and CLI commands such as aid2e optimize.
  • Ongoing migration work focused on moving scheduler and utility code into the new framework, along with examples such as DTLZ2, BIC-MOBO, and central tracker.
  • The framework documentation and the Jan. 22 milestone were both referenced as near-term deliverables.
  • The group also discussed modularity concerns, repository policy, and whether the single-repo direction had fully converged with the earlier architecture discussion.
• Phase II
  • The team discussed whether Phase I and Phase II should share one longer technical meeting or alternate across more frequent shorter meetings.
  • Workforce balance was raised as a constraint, especially where the same contributors were supporting both the paper and new Phase II work.
  • The group agreed to begin a structured review of state-of-the-art LLM and agentic-workflow tooling.
  • Testing and portability of LLM workflows were treated as open questions, especially across heterogeneous sites.
  • Future compute resources, including possible GPU allocations on Perlmutter, were also raised.
• AOB
  • KLM, CLAS alignment, AERFIB, and agile development strategy were all noted as connected follow-up topics.