HSF Weekly Meeting #130, 15 March, 2018

News, general matters

Research Software Engineers group in the UK contacted us
- Looking for sponsorship for RSE2018 (3-4 Sept), which we are not able to give.
- However, participating in their conference looks interesting - anyone from the UK interested?
Are there other conferences where we would like to have an HSF presence this year?
- Purpose has to be clear: Who we are. What we do. Are we/you interested in sharing ideas or resources?

General points
- 199 people registered.
- Vidyo rooms are cloned for all the right sessions.
Outcomes
- Discussion this week:
  - No template slides yet - early next week (unless someone else volunteers!)
  - Oli - HSF curation would be a very important point, let’s make that a top item and very visible.
  - Ian - WLCG strategy document has some major things that will/should crystallise into working groups
    - Hope to circulate the document in advance of Naples
  - Note from Dan Katz that Depsy project has ended.
Agenda Updates
Monday
- HEP Use Cases
  - Presentation by LHCb will go into the agenda now
  - Presentation from Simone foreseen - but does this have too much of an overlap with Liz’s talk? Need to clarify that.
Wednesday
- Programming for Concurrency and Co-Processors
  - Lost one talk, so coffee break restored to 30’.
- Visualisation (Parallel)
  - Agenda defined.
  - Discussion about common projects
  - Contributions from:
    - CMS/GSI/ROOT
    - ATLAS
    - Belle II
- Simulation (Parallel)
  - Pere will help run the session.
- Technical Discussion on Frameworks (Parallel)
  - Session has been further organised. Marco will present one of the topics. Jim K may be able to speak about serialisation.
Thursday
- Closing Plenary
  - SKA talk is confirmed (Anna Scaife) - we allocated 30’.
  - Closing talks on way forward and vision for final 30’.
  - Need to populate Indico (Pere and Liz).

General Matters and Roadmap
- CERN Courier article was finalised, the April issue will be live online from 23 Mar and in print a few days after that.
- Symmetry magazine article being chased up internally by editor.
Publication strategy for Individual WG Papers
- Simulation
  - Uploaded to arXiv
- Machine Learning
  - No news from Sergei
- Software Trigger and Event Reconstruction
  - Only needs upload into HSF documents repo.
- Data Organisation, Management and Access
  - LaTeX version created, need small fixes. Meeting at the end of the week.
- Data and Software Preservation
  - Close to final draft circulated this week by Mike Hildreth.
- Data Analysis and Interpretation
  - PR to documents repo is in. Small issue in the abstract, but easy to fix.
- Visualization
  - Finish in the next week.
- Event/Data Processing Frameworks
  - Use Naples to draw this together.
- Careers, Staffing and Training
  - Want to incorporate thoughts from Naples and revise, given the wider community involved there.
- Facilities and Distributed Computing
  - Waiting until after the WLCG strategy document is done.
- Conditions Access
  - Paul has had no time to make progress.
- Generators
  - Discuss at Naples.