HSF Weekly Meeting #151, 15 November, 2018

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HSF Weekly Meeting #151, 15 November, 2018

Present/Contributors: Graeme Stewart, David Lange, Pere Mato, Michel Jouvin, Gloria Corti, Caterina Doglioni, Aleattin Mete, Eduardo Rodrigues, Peter Elmer

News, general matters

• None

HSF/WLCG/OSG workshop

• Next organising meeting hopefully next week. Most immediate goals are:
  • Setting out a block agenda
  • Opening registration
  • Missing the input from OSG. Waiting also Amber feedback for opening the registration. The idea is to use the CERN indico.
• It is quite urgent to setup the chairs of the sessions to be ready to receive input and organize the sessions

New Working Groups

• Final list of candidates is available.
• Search committee still happy to take input on candidates until 16 November.
  • Convenors will be announced 26 November.

Generators Software Computing Workshop

• Preparations rather complete now:
  • Indico agenda
  • Sessions from experiments, generators, optimising use, NNLO, HPCs

• 49 people registered

  • Please sign up if you’re coming (otherwise no coffee!)
  • Hackathon on Wednesday will happen

Activity updates

Quantum Computing

• WG created after the workshop as announced last week: join the mailing list if interested

Licensing

• Matteo Cacciari probably not going to be at CERN for the generators workshop - looking for another (more convenient) date.

Training

• Please comment on David’s training survey.
• David worked on it yesterday. He will send it around to the communities

Packaging

• Next meeting 21 November, update from Portage.

Frameworks

• NTR

Visualisation

• NTR

Software Development

• Planning a meeting in November on monitoring tools - Servesh has confirmed his interest.

Software Forum

• Next meeting discussion with the Electron Ion Collider Software Consortium, 21 November.
• Topics for next year - please suggest!

PyHEP

• NTR

Technical Notes

• NTR

CWP

General Matters and Roadmap

• New revision of the CWP submitted to CSBS last Tuesday evening
  • Answer to reviewers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v-bmr-RltBFyTGBRPJ_dpbOzeSVaP7X3dXQ2_iuQybA/edit
  • Waiting journal feedback before updating arXiv with it

Publication status for Individual WG Papers

• Data Organisation, Management and Access
  • Waiting input from Bo.
• Visualization
  • The Visualization CWP is now close to completion. Updated documents.
• Event/Data Processing Frameworks
  • References improved - last circulation to potential wider author list then publish?
• Facilities and Distributed Computing
  • No news.

• Conditions Access

  • No news.

AOB

• Should we submit a HSF related paper to the European Strategy Update?
  • Deadline for submitting material for the ESPP opening workshop (Grenada, May) : December 18.
  • Pere’s proposal : write a couple of pages around importance of taking software & computing into consideration early in the process of designing new machines/detectors and refer to the CWP for details.
• Michel encouraged Antoine Pérus, one of the GSoC coordinator, to plan a presentation of next year timeline for GSoC around mid-december to raise the attention of the community early (as many things have to happen in January)
• HSF Logo in vector format - reminder of action on Benedikt.