EnTK Roadmap, 2020

Agenda

• Known issues
  • open tickets
• Features/enhancements/performance
  • RabbitMQ overhead
• User support
  • Deployment
  • error handling
  • analytics
• Documentation

Milestones

• 1 month - August Release
• 3 months - October Release
• 6 months - January Release

TODO - Issues

• 45 open tickets
  • 16 bugs
    • 1month:
      • failure to submit job on comet_ssh #419
      • more than 68 cpus cannot be utilized on stampede2 #416
    • 3months:
      • pytest never finishes when running locally #436
      • Key tag not in schema #429
    • 6months:
      • delay between stages #439
      • EnTK forks which breaks the RU ZMQ layer #428
      • unexpected keyboardinterrupt messages #426
      • deadlock during rp.umgr creation #421, EnTK deadlock on non-trivial pipeline counts. Replica Exchange #410
      • _ special character is not allowed in names of Pipeline, Stage, and Task; failing data sharing #392
      • do not pollute user dir #380
    • parked issues #333, #321, #255
  • 9 features/enhancement
    • 1 month
      • purge radical.ensemblemd from pypi #430
      • missing type check on RMQ port (and probably other parameters) #362
    • 3 months
      • AppManager non-blocking run and callbacks #405
    • 6 months
      • configuring RabbitMQ as a docker image #414
      • move heartbeat into its own thread (task manager) #327
    • parked #320, #269, #243, #212
  • 6 documentation
    • 1month
      • #442, #441, #440, #437, #431, #401

Test

• travis/unit tests/coverage

Use Cases (random order)

• HPC Workflow (Princeton, PSU)
• Extasy (Rice)
• NAMD-EnTK (ASU)
• COVID-19 (ANL)
• DeepDriveMD (ANL)
• Harel (Cornell)
• INSPIRE (UCL)
• FACTS (Rutgers)

Platform Support

• Lassen at LLNL
• SuperMUC at UCL
• Longhorn at TACC
• Theta at ANL
• and so on

Performance

• data staging
• multiple pipelines e.g. 5k