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A3D3 Executive Board meeting

Shih-Chieh Hsu (UW)

Philip Harris (MIT)

�Apr 28 2023

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https://indico.cern.ch/event/1272815/

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News in 2023

  • Deliverables
    • Please help to update for Q1 report https://a3d3.ai/publications.html [src]
  • Welcome A3D3 Program Operation Specialist
    • Menglu Zhang - starting Apr 10
  • Year 2 funding + Supplement
    • All complete except Georgia Tech
  • Website upgrade - target migration date end of June (before site visit)

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Top Priority and upcoming events in 2023

  • Edit Year 2 Q1 report (Thanks for those of you whom have provided texts.)
  • Upcoming event
    • Executive Board May 26
    • Interactive Visualization and Analysis of High-Dimensional Scientific Data, Jun 13-15, Boston
    • HDR Postbac workshop, June 20-21, San Diego, https://indico.cern.ch/event/1253923/
    • A3D3 External Advisory Board review June 21-23 (Zoom only, 2.5hrs each day)
    • NSF Site visit in Seattle July 11/12
    • A3D3 summer workshop July 10-14 - Melissa Quinn’s talk
    • 2nd HDR PI meeting Oct 16 in Golden CO - hosted by ID4 Institute
      • A3D3 representative for organization - Mark Neubauer

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Postbac program funding survey

  • Postbac program survey
  • For the coming years, we have 2 postbac/year from original budget. We need additional funding sources in order to support 2 more postbac:
    • Reallocate Cloud Credits ($57K/year)
    • Reallocate senior personnel annual grant
    • External funding
  • Two cost sharing scenarios:
    • Scenario 1: cost sharing by all 17 PIs
      • $6.6K/year from each PI’s annual budget
    • Scenario 2: cost sharing between common grants and the host PI
      • $57K/year from common grant, $29k/year from host PI

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NSF site-visit agenda

NSF program managers guidance:

  1. All presentations should be planned in such a way that 1/3 of the time allocated to a presentation is reserved for questions by the site visit panel.
  2. There should be an introductory overview presentation and one presentation each devoted to the research topical areas covered by the institute.
  3. There should be a presentation about the Education / Outreach activities being conducted by the institute.
  4. There should be a presentation about the Knowledge Transfer / External Collaboration activities of the institute.
  5. The lunch on the first day of the visit should be combined with an informal meeting of the site visit panel with the students and postdocs participating in the institute (with no senior members of the institute present).
  6. On the first day, there should be a brief executive session for the site visit panel scheduled mid-day, and an extended executive session scheduled towards the end of the day. The panel is likely to formulate overnight homework questions for the A3D3 team, with your responses to be provided the morning of the second day.
  7. The engagement of the A3D3 team with the site visit panel should wrap up around lunch time on the second day, as the panel will be busy writing the site visit report after that. Please, plan to provide space to the site visit team to allow us to do the writing.
  8. All institute members are welcomed to join review sessions
  9. External Advisory Board should not be invited to the Site Visit

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EAB members

  • Accepted
  • To be confirmed
    • HAC: Zhiru Zhang (Cornell)

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Backup

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Deliverables

Papers/Proceedings

  • HAC: BEVFusion (submitted to NeurIPS 2022), GSAT (accepted by ICML’22)
  • HEP: GNN PU removal (2203.15823, submitted to EPJC), MLPF CMS (2203.00330, ACAT 2021)
  • Targeted system: qonnx (submitted to HiPEAC AccML 2022), TinyML (submitted to MLSys 2022).

Software/Infrastructure

  • HAC: TorchSparse v2.0, SPVCNN++ (for WOD Challenge 2022)
  • MMA: DeepClean, nmma
  • Targeted System: ScaleHLS, PyLog

Applications

  • CMS Level-1 btagging
  • RNN jet tagging (paper to be submitted)

Talks

  • APS CMS ECAL

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Equity & Career�J. Duarte

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External Advisory Board

W. Bhimji (NERSC)

M. Bolt (AMD/Xilinx)

P. Brady (UWM)�B. Doiron (Chicago)

D. Matteson (Cornell)

M. Taheri (JHU/PNLL)

A. Tapper (ICL)

Z. Zhang (Cornell)

PI/co-PIs

NeuroAI Integration:�E. Shlizerman

Coordination

HAC : P. Li

HEP : M. Liu �MMA : M. Coughlin (co-PI)

Neuro : A. Orsborn

Management

Director : S.-C. Hsu (PI)

Deputy : P. Harris (co-PI)

Project Manager: to be hired

Executive Board

Steering Board

HAC: S. Han

HEP: M. Neubauer (co-PI)

MMA: K. Scholberg (co-PI) Neuro: M. Makin

External: N. Tran, A. Villar� S. Vries

Heterogeneous : B. Riedel

Targeted System : J. Duarte

Engagement : M. Neubauer

Education : M. Graham

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External Communication

Website

  • Starting website:�https://a3d3.ai/
  • Contract to House of Giants through MIT

Mailing lists

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Inter-institute Communication

  • Institute SLACK channel
    • FastML Server
  • Institute Meetings
    • Agenda:
    • Kicked-off meeting Nov 2021
    • Bi-Weekly
      • FastML Co-processor (heterogeneous)
      • FastML HLS4ML (target system)
      • HAC
    • Monthly
      • Neuroscience
      • Executive Board