ePIC Software & Computing Weekly Meeting: PanDA

Wednesday 11 Mar 2026, 11:00 → 12:20 US/Eastern

Dmitrii Kalinkin (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Holly Szumila-Vance, Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab), Torre Wenaus (BNL)

In this week’s ePIC Software & Computing meeting, we will discuss PanDA, the workflow management system we have chosen to support our increasingly complex simulation campaigns. The presentation will cover PanDA’s role in distributed computing for the ATLAS experiment and the WLCG, as well as its evolution and integration into production workflows: 

We will use Zoom for the remote meeting: 

• https://jlab-org.zoomgov.com/j/1614875218?pwd=RFRPcGlNM3BaS0pQaDhxS3JURkdJZz09 
• Meeting ID: 1614875218
• Password: 925723

Meeting Notes

11:00 → 11:20 PanDA Motivation: History and Lessons Learned

Speaker: Kaushik De (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

PanDAfor EIC-11Mar2026.pdf

11:20 → 11:30 Discussion

11:30 → 11:50 PanDA’s Evolution: Strategy, Priorities, and Next Steps

Speaker: Dr Tadashi Maeno (BNL)

PanDA Evolution.pdf

11:50 → 12:00 Discussion

12:00 → 12:10 PanDA Integration: Production Workflows for ePIC

Speaker: Sakib Rahman (NPPS-BNL)

PanDA for ePIC

12:10 → 12:15 Discussion