Google Summer of Code 2022

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Based on widely-used community components (DD4hep, Gaudi, ACTS, EDM4hep) and in close collaboration with the key4HEP project, the ATHENA software environment is intended to be a general solution for all Electron-Ion Collider.

Acts is a free and open-source software project for track reconstruction in high-energy physics experiments. As a modernized version of the particle tracking code used by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the project is focused on adoption of modern C++ standards, usability in multi-threaded workflows, and increased use of vectorization and accelerators (gpgpu).

Belle II is a particle physics experiment that studies electron positron collision events produced by the the SuperKEKB accelerator at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan. It is designed to collect 50 times more data than its predecessor to address open questions in fundamental physics with high precision measurements.

CERNBox is a cloud synchronisation service for end-users: it allows syncing and sharing files on all major mobile and desktop platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Android, iOS) aiming to provide offline availability to any data stored in the CERN EOS infrastructure.

The CernVM-File System (CVMFS) is a global, read-only POSIX file system that provides the universal namespace /cvmfs. It is based on content-addressable storage, Merkle trees, and HTTP data transport. CernVM-FS provides a mission critical infrastructure to small and large HEP collaborations.

Compiler-Research - We are a group of programming languages enthusiasts located at Princeton University and CERN. Our primary goal is research into foundational software tools helping scientists to program for speed, interoperability, interactivity, flexibility, and reproducibility. Our current research focus is primarily in interpretative C/C++/CUDA, automatic differentiation tools, and C++ language interoperability with Python and D.

The ESCAPE Open-source Scientific Software and Service Repository (OSSR) is an open-access repository to share scientific software and services to the science community and enable open science. It will house astro-particle-physics-related scientific software and services for data processing and analysis, as well as test data sets, documentation, tutorials, presentations and training activities. It will enable a true multi-messengerdata-driven cooperative approach based on the FAIR principles, guaranteeing an open innovation environment for science interoperability and software re-usage.

Ganga is a computational task-management tool, which allows for the specification, submission, bookkeeping and post-processing of computational tasks on a wide set of distributed resources. Ganga has been developed to solve a problem increasingly common in scientific projects, which is that researchers must regularly switch between different processing systems, each with its own command set, to complete their computational tasks. Ganga provides a homogeneous environment for processing data on heterogeneous resources.

Geant4 is a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter.

The HEP Software Foundation encourages cooperation and common development of software in High Energy Physics. The HSF hosts a number of software projects where developers are working to solve current problems in particle physics.

IRIS-HEP aims to develop the state-of-the-art software cyberinfrastructure required for the challenges of data intensive scientific research at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN, and other planned HEP experiments of the 2020’s.

MCnet is a collaboration between the developers of the major collision-event modelling tools used at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and beyond. These codes are so-called “MC event generators”, theoretical physics packages that evaluate and sample from quantum mechanical distributions to create simulated particle collisions. MC generators are an essential component of both modern particle physics experiments and theory, and provide a crucial bridge between those two communities. MCnet projects include both event generators themselves, and tools that connect them to both experiment and theory.

MadAnalysis 5 is a framework for phenomenological investigations at particle colliders. Based on a C++ kernel and Python based user interface, this program allows to efficiently perform, in a straightforward and user-friendly fashion, sophisticated physics analyses of event files such as those generated a large class of Monte Carlo event generators.

Patatrack project started in 2016 by a group of people with various area of expertise, such as software optimization, heterogeneous computing, track reconstruction and High Level Trigger (HLT) at the CMS experiment at CERN. The goal was to demonstrate that part of the HLT reconstruction could be efficienty offloaded on machines equipped with GPUs for parallel execution. Nowadays, Patatrack developments have been integrated into the CMS software for event reconstruction and the project focuses on the exploration of innovative software and hardware technologies to bring smart software closer to the detectors read-out at CERN experiments.

Phoenix is an experiment-agnostic library for the visualisation of detector geometry and event data in a browser.

A modular scientific software framework. It provides all the functionalities needed to deal with big data processing, statistical analysis, visualisation and storage. It is mainly written in C++ but integrated with other languages such as Python and R.

Rucio is an open-source software framework that provides functionality to scientific collaborations to organize, manage, monitor, and access their distributed data and dataflows across heterogeneous infrastructures. Rucio was originally developed to meet the requirements of the high-energy physics experiment ATLAS, and is continuously enhanced to support diverse scientific communities.

A vectorized high-performance library usable for fast and accurate geometry computations in very complex setups.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as Berkeley Lab, is a United States national laboratory that conducts scientific research on behalf of the Department of Energy. Located in the hills of Berkeley, California, the lab overlooks the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

Argonne National Lab (ANL) is a multidisciplinary science and engineering research center, where talented scientists and engineers work together to answer the biggest questions facing humanity, from how to obtain affordable clean energy to protecting ourselves and our environment.

The Center for Advanced Systems Understanding, namely CASUS, is a joint German-Polish research institute where scientists combine methods from mathematics, systems theory, data science, and scientific computing at a single location, with the aim to rethink data-intensive systems research and develop digital solutions that are used across multiple disciplines.

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles.

The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) is a major German physics laboratory with a long interest in high-energy physics. DESY is a major centre for photon science and the site of the European XFEL laser. DESY scientists are part of major international HEP experiments, such as ATLAS, CMS and Belle II.

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be a particle accelerator that collides electrons with protons and nuclei to produce snapshots of those particles’ internal structure—like a CT scanner for atoms. The electron beam will reveal the arrangement of the quarks and gluons that make up the protons and neutrons of nuclei. The force that holds quarks together, carried by the gluons, is the strongest force in Nature. The EIC will allow us to study this “strong nuclear force” and the role of gluons in the matter within and all around us.

ESCAPE mission is to establish a single cluster of next generation European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) facilities in the area of astronomy- and accelerator-based particle physics. The purpose of this open source and collaborative environment is to implement a functional link between the concerned ESFRI projects and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) is a Department of Energy national laboratory dedicated to particle physics research. Fermilab supports work by scientists, from across the country and the globe, who seek to further our understanding of matter, energy, space and time.

IJCLab is a French research laboratory belonging to CNRS/IN2P3 and located at Université Paris Saclay. The main topics of the research done at IJCLab are high energy physics, cosmology and accelerators.

Imperial College London is a world top ten university with an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Consistently rated amongst the world’s best universities, Imperial is committed to developing the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics through collaboration across disciplines. Located in the heart of London, Imperial is a multidisciplinary space for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges.

IPHC Founded in 2006, the IPHC (“Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien” for “Hubert Curien Multidisciplinary Institute”) is an international renown laboratory located in Strasbourg (France). Its specificity is to gather three departments of different sciences: eco-physiology, chemistry and subatomic physics. The package MadAnalysis 5 was in particular designed in the latter department for the needs of phenomenology in particle physics at collider. The IPHC is a member institute of several international experimental collaborations such as CMS, ALICE, FCC, ILC, Juno, LIGO-Virgo, Antares-KM3NET, …

The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology at Durham University is UK’s national centre for particle phenomenology, researching the properties and behaviour of the most fundamental building blocks of nature. Since it has founded, IPPP has grown to become one of the largest particle phenomenology groups in the world. Our research sits at the interface between theoretical particle physics and experiments ranging from particle colliders to gravitational wave detectors.

LMU The Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich is one of the leading universities in Europe with a history going back over 500 years. It stands for a demanding academic education and outstanding research.

The Laboratory of Theoretical and High Energy Physics (LPTHE) is a Joint Research Unit (UMR 7589) of Sorbonne University and of the CNRS. It is affiliated with the CNRS Institute of Physics (INP). It comprises 19 CNRS researchers and 10 university professors.

Monash University Monash University is one of Australia’s leading universities and ranks among the world’s top 100. We help change lives through research and education.

ownCloud GmbH provides an open-source file sync, share and content collaboration software that lets teams work on data easily from anywhere, on any device.

The University of Pittsburgh is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States.

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

Research at RWTH Aachen University focuses on relevant problems arising from global challenges. The aim is to provide solutions for today’s complex and multi-faceted problems by developing an integrated interdisciplinary approach to research.

ScienceMesh is the Federated Science Cloud Mesh that connects existing and heterogeneous sites in a transparent way. It is a rich ecosystem for frictionless scientific collaboration and access to research services where data, applications, and computation are brought together.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of Europe’s top universities. It is committed to excellence in research and teaching, interdisciplinary education and the active promotion of promising young scientists. The university also forges strong links with companies and scientific institutions across the world. TUM was one of the first universities in Germany to be named a University of Excellence. Moreover, TUM regularly ranks among the best European universities in international rankings.

Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, University College London is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. It is one of the UK’s leading groups in the field of particle physics.

The University of Glasgow is a leading UK research university based in Scotland’s largest city. We work on particle physics experiments from the LHC to neutrinos, particle theory from interpretations of Higgs and top-quark measurements to the strong force, and high-performance distributed computing.

The University of Manitoba is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba, located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.

UMass Amherst is one of the major public research universities in America.

With more than 45,700 students, the University of Münster is one of the largest universities in Germany. Thanks to its extensive range of degree programmes, multifaceted research profile, and the atmosphere and quality of life in Münster, the University attracts students and researchers from Germany and around the world.