AID2E Technical Meeting
Date: March 19, 2026
Attendees: BNL: Wen, Amit W&M: Karthik Suresh, Hemalata Nayak
Announcements
- Possible overlap with the EIC Physics Readiness meeting.
- APS-related update pending confirmation.
Phase I
- Continued discussion on the Overleaf paper.
- Test problem figures from December are mostly available:
- Considering reuse vs regenerating plots.
- Parameters discussed:
- Objectives (M): 3–5
- Dimensions (D): 20, 50, 100
- Schedulers: JobLib, Slurm, PanDA Runner
- Plot types:
- Total runtime
- Hypervolume tracking
- Additional work:
- Evaluate Ax and PyMOO with a selected scheduler (Slurm or PanDA).
- Track progress toward holistic optimization.
Updates
-
Derek (JLab)
- PR is nearly complete; remaining tasks:
- stack/ePIC execution engine
- stack/ePIC workflow loader
- Timeline: Expected merge by end of next week.
- Integration testing to follow.
- Notes on PanDA:
- Geometry source code not included in container.
- May require recompilation for certain parameters (e.g., BIC).
- Proposed using a geometry template in
EpicDesignConfig.
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Amit (BNL)
- Pending discussions on BIC-MOBO and PanDA/iDDS integration.
- Limited availability over past two weeks; work to resume next week.
Phase II
- Continue discussions from previous meeting:
- Karthik Suresh: Literature survey on agentic workflows.
- Wen: Exploration of LLM and MCP-related ideas.
Additional Notes
- Amit briefly mentioned plans related to MOGA (details to be discussed further).