HSF Newsletters

The HSF Newsletter is an occasional series of longer articles about the HSF, discussing workshops and other big activities. New newsletter articles are always announced on the hsf-forum.

HSF-OSG-WLCG Workshop at Jefferson Lab, HOW2019

The annual HEP Software Foundation workshop happened in Jefferson Laboratory from the 18th to 22nd of March. This year we had the opportunity to join forces again with the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) community and, in addition, the US...

WLCG-HSF Workshop in Naples

The WLCG-HSF joint workshop took place in Naples from 26-29 of March. There was a great deal of interest in the event, with 211 people registering, far exceeding the size of any workshop hosted by WLCG or HSF alone. The...

CWP, Naples Workshop and GSoC

CWP Roadmap The Community White Paper process, that the HSF launched in San Diego in January 2017 came to a successful conclusion at the end of last year, with the publication of A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D...

Community White Paper (CWP) Workshop, San Diego, 23-26 January 2017

Realizing the physics programs of the planned and/or upgraded HEP experiments over the next 10 years will require the HEP community to address a number of challenges in the area of software and computing. It is expected that the computing...

Third HSF Workshop

Third HSF Workshop (May 2-4, 2016) The HSF had its third workshop at LAL (Orsay, France) on May 2-4, 2016. It was well attended (70 people) representing many different laboratories, universities and institutions (~30) from both sides of the Atlantic,...

Sharing ideas and code

One of the aims of the HSF is to give you and your project a forum for exchange. For sharing ideas we set up the HSF Technical Notes. And to help you sharing your software with others we had a...

HSF Newsletter - Logo Contest and Packaging Working Group

As promised in our last newsletter, we would like to update you on some more activities of the HSF. Common Track Reconstruction Software Forum Earlier this month, tracking software experts from the various experiments met to give a nice overview...

HSF Newsletter - Knowledge Base

After some time of apparent silence from our side we would like to update you a little bit on the activities in the HSF during this period. We have many efforts going on in parallel. Not quite at the speed...

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This is a regular newsletter to inform the community of developments across the HEP Software Foundation activity areas. For information on how this website is put together see here.