EIC Echelon 0 + 1 mini-workshop

Name: EIC Echelon 0 + 1 mini-workshop
Start: 2026-10-15T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-15T20:50:00-04:00
Location: BNL Guest, User & Visitors Center

Thursday 15 Oct 2026, 08:00 → 20:50 US/Eastern

BNL Guest, User & Visitors Center

BNL Guest, User and Visitors center

Alexei Klimentov (bnl), David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab), Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

Description

The third EIC Echelon 0–1 Workshop will be held at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Thursday, October 15, 2026. This workshop will bring together DAQ and computing experts engaged in the planning and development of the Echelon 0 and Echelon 1 sites as well as members of EIC International Computing Organization for the ePIC experiment at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider.

The meeting will focus on status and plans, with an emphasis on technical discussions of data transfer and latency, data streaming and workflow orchestration, and resource estimates and requirements. These discussions will also be relevant to the Echelon 2 sites, which form an integral part of the computing infrastructure for ePIC.

The workshop will be in person in BNL Guests, Users and Visitors Center (with the possibility to connect via Zoom and participate in the discussion remotely). It will be open to the HENP community

Please contact Leisa McGee for organizational matters

lmcgee@bnl.gov

Registration

Participants

Alexei Klimentov
Chris Pinkenburg
David Morrison
Dmitrii Kalinkin
Domenico Elia
Johannes Elmsheuser
Lijuan Ruan
Markus Diefenthaler
Martin Purschke
Matthew Nguyen
Rosario Turrisi
Taku Gunji
Takuya Kumaoka
Torre Wenaus

- 08:00 → 09:15
  Introduction
  
  Convener: alexei klimentov (bnl)
  - 08:30
    
    Workshop goal + Participant introduction 30m
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome (BNL Fundamental Interactions and Particle Directorate) 15m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & BNL)
- 09:15 → 10:00
  
  Echelon 0 status report and plans 45m
  
  Echelon0 prototyping progress and timeline
  
  Speakers: David Abbott (Jefferson Lab), Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
- 10:00 → 10:15
  
  coffee break 15m
- 10:15 → 11:50
  Echelon 1 prototyping at BNL and JLab
  
  -- Host Labs computing needs
  -- E0-E1 Interface
  -- EIC networking (LAN, WAN, ESnet/LHCONE)
  -- Resource Planning (including resources for AI)
  -- Services and Infrastructure: Status and Plans (PanDA, Rucio and Tokens, MCP Server)
  
  Conveners: David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab), alexei klimentov (bnl)
  - 10:15
    
    Host Labs computing needs 20m
    
    -- Host Labs computing needs
    --- E0-E1 Interface
    -- - Resource Planning (including resources for AI)
    
    Speakers: David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab), alexei klimentov (bnl)
  - 10:35
    
    EIC Networking 15m
    
    Speakers: Brad Sawatzky, David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab), Mark Lukasczyk (Network Engineer)
  - 10:50
    
    Services and Infrastructure: Status and Plans (PanDA, Rucio and Tokens, MCP Server) 15m
    
    Speakers: Anil Panta (member@jlab.org;employee@jlab.org), Dmitrii Kalinkin (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Torre Wenaus (BNL)
- 11:15 → 12:15
  
  Streaming Orchestration I: Data and workflow orchestration
  
  -- PanDA and Testbed: Status and Plans
  
  Conveners: Dr Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab), Torre Wenaus (BNL)
- 12:15 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h 15m
- 13:30 → 14:30
  
  Streaming Orchestration II 1h
  
  -- SPINDLE: Status and Plans
  -- Japanese Integrated DAQ-Computing Tests
  
  Speakers: Dr Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab), Taku Gunji (Quark-Nuclear Science Institute, the University of Tokyo), Torre Wenaus (BNL)
- 14:30 → 15:30
  
  Data Lifecycle Management 1h
  
  Speaker: Dr Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)
- 15:30 → 16:30
  
  Discussion and wrap up 1h
  
  Speakers: David Lawrence (Jefferson Lab), Dr Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab), alexei klimentov (bnl)
- 18:20 → 20:50
  
  Workshop Dinner 2h 30m