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HSF Weekly Meeting #176, 19 December, 2019 (Exceptional Virtual Meeting)

Present/Contributors: Graeme Stewart, Eduardo Rodrigues, Caterina Doglioni (w/David Lange, Agnieszka Dziurda)

News, general matters

• New Working Group Convenors have been selected:
  • Software Tools and Packaging:
    • Ben Morgan (Warwick)
    • Serhan Mete (ANL)
    • Martin Ritter (LMU)
  • PyHEP:
    • Ben Krikler (Bristol)
    • Eduardo Rodrigues (Liverpool)
    • Jim Pivarski (Princeton)
  • Physics Event Generators:
    • Andrea Valassi (CERN)
    • Efe Yazgan (Chinese Academy of Sceince)
    • Josh McFadyen (CERN)
  • Training:
    • Kilian Lieret (LMU)
    • Sam Meehan (CERN)
    • Sudhir Malik (Puerto Rico)
  • Simulation:
    • Philippe Canal (FNAL)
    • (Joining Gloria and Witek)
  • Analysis:
    • Our discussions still continue, announcement expected in January.
  • Many thanks to our outgoing convenors and Welcome! to our new ones
• Feedback from SPC talk
  • Talk was well received by the SPC. Questions focused on the use of HPCs, particularly in Europe (PRACE and EuroHPC); and also on the prospects for using heterogeneous computing for detector simulation.

Working Group Updates

Detector Simulation

• No particular update. Need to schedule meetings for the new year.

Reconstruction and Software Triggers

• Had a constructive convenors-meeting last week and have planned for a few meetings in the new year.

PyHEP

• Welcome to Ben Krikler as new co-convener as of January 1st, 2020!

Packaging

• Meeting on December 11 covered CHEP, SuperComputing and plans for Spack. Check live notes for details.

AOB

Coordination Meetings

• Next meeting
  • First meeting of 2020 will be January 16

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