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HSF Weekly Meeting #106, August 30, 2017

Present: Dario Menasce, Pere Mato, Benedikt Hegner, Daniel Elvira, Michel Jouvin, Andrea Valassi, David Lange, John Harvey

News, general matters

• Graeme will present HSF CWP status to the Scientific Computing Forum (SCF) on 27.10. Pere and Pete will be present as well for the discussion.
• Next LHCC in two weeks from now. Will possibly contain CWP part in summary.
• Next WLCG Overview Board is scheduled on Oct. 27 and may also ask a CWP status… To be confirmed with Ian Bird.

CWP

• Simulation

  • Essentially finished. Getting feedback on Fluka part. Other comments have been incorporated.
  • Resource estimates need to be updated and could move to a general CWP introduction.
  • Studies to understand difference in simulation times between ATLAS and CMS have been done and will be incorporated into the document.

• MachineLearning

  • no news

• Software Development

  • Close to final

• Software Trigger and Event Reconstruction

  • Draft of executive summary and document being circulated
  • Being proof-read by volunteers

• Data Access, Organisation and Management

  • No news.

• Data and Software Preservation

  • No news.

• Data Analysis and Interpretation

  • No news.

• Workflow and Resource Management

  • No news.

• Visualization

  • No news.

• Event/Data Processing Frameworks

  • No news.

• Careers, Staffing and Training

  • Some comments to be incorporated in document still.

• Computing Model

  • two versions of the document have been prepared (with Ian acting as main editor). The short 5-page version that represents the executive summary for the CWP has already been circulated extensively between the people who contributed to it. The longer 50-page standalone document is still being actively reviewed and worked on.

• Conditions Access

  • No news.

• Next Steps

  • Get feedback from Pete about the organization of the editorial team. Several WG already produced an executive summary that could be used as input for the global document.

Activity updates

Licensing

Follow-up the discussion about ATLAS licensing at the next meeting if Graeme is there.

Training

Recent use of WikiToLearn by the GridKa computing school: should contact them to get feedback on the platform

AOB

• Color scheme of website not colorblind friendly (in particular difficult to identify links)
• WLCG workshop follow-up needed, in particular on new dates foreseen.
• Contact experiments, WLCG and others to get the community calendar filled asap
• Presentation by Liz during ACAT to be added to the HSF websites

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