Present/Contributors: Graeme Stewart, Teng Jian Khoo, Eduardo Rodrigues, Kyle Knoepfel, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Allison Hall, Chris Jones, Stefan Roiser, Witold Pokorski, Daniel Elvira, David Lange, Caterina Doglioni, Efe Yazgan, Josh McFayden, Ben Morgan, Philippe Canal, Attila Krasznahorkay
Apologies: Agnieszka Dziurda, Paul Laycock, Michel Jouvin, Serhan Mete, Pere Mato
News, general matters, announcements
New Convenor(s) for Data Analysis WG
Yes, we have new convenors…
- Allison Hall (FNAL, CMS)
- Chris Burr (CERN, LHCb)
We welcome them to the group!
C++ Course
We are all set to go next week:
12-16 October, https://indico.cern.ch/event/946584/.
Compute Accelerator Forum
First meeting was last week: https://indico.cern.ch/event/950196/. 60 people attended.
- Booking next topics, please suggestions to Graeme, Stefan and Maria
- Timeslot will move to 16h30 or 17h Wednesdays, which is easier for US West Coast
- For 2021 we move to a regular slot of 4th Wednesday of each month
Geant4
Pere and Graeme have been having discussions with Marc Verderi and Alberto Ribon (G4 management) about how to improve cooperation between Geant4 and the HSF.
- These have been held in a very constructive spirit so far
- One concrete outcome is the co-organisation of the detector simulation session in the November workshop
- A number of important discussion topics are still ongoing
Snowmass
- Interesting Snowmass session/whitepapers at the Community Planning Workshop:
- Daniel is involved as a convenor
- Liz was in the DOMA/facilities discussions
Please report in HSF meetings if you have interesting interactions in the Snowmass process or suggestions for the HSF,
Working Group Updates
Detector Simulation
Started planning (together with the Geant4 member) the detector simulation session at the HSF-WLCG workshop. We have first draft of the agenda. We do not foresee topical meetings before that.
Reconstruction and Software Triggers
Awakening from hibernation (a ~month hiatus due to other commitments…)
Encouraging people to submit abstracts to the HSF workshop.
Semi-related:
- ESCAPE INFRAEOSC-03 was approved and it’s now in “revisions” mode, Dark Matter Test Science Project will have a few postdocs joining HSF activities
- TOOLS2020 conference for (software) tools in HEP and astronomy https://indico.cern.ch/event/955391/abstracts/
PyHEP
- PyHEP 2020 workshop “proceedings”:
- Discussions for future topical WG meetings have started. Possible topics are:
- Automatic differentiation (something that attracted attention during the PyHEP 2020 workshop).
- “HEP Statistics Serialization Standard” (think models, RooWorkspace) for RooFit and pyhf, zfit, … (see their first meeting).
- We are unlikely to have more than one WG meeting in 2020 given the significant number of HEP-relevant events throughout the calendar.
- Very useful meeting/tutorial on Modern CMake given by Henry Schreiner:
- Planning meetings on Spack and Conda (speakers, dates to be determined)
Software Training
- C++ training next week
- Group planning contribution to the workshop
Event generators
- Working on HSF/WLCG agenda - close to finalised, will start inviting speakers soon.
- Paper referee comments to be answered - meeting tomorrow among conveners to finalize the answers.
- Snowmass Advances in Event Generation and Detector Simulation session last night.
- Interesting discussion on generators, nothing really new came up.
- Some previously skeptical theorists seemed more on board with the need to migrate code to GPUs.
Frameworks
- Interesting meeting last week with Frank Berghaus of AthenaMT presenting about ATLAS’ metadata handling. - We intend to meet next week (Oct. 14) for a presentation about CMSSW’s handling of non-event data. Awaiting confirmation from the speaker.
Workshops
HSF-WLCG Virtual November Workshop
Workshop dates fixed 19, 20, 23, 24 November (pm CET).
Indico: https://indico.cern.ch/event/941278/.
Registration open 52 people signed up so far - please sign up yourself.
Good advertising so far: HSF, Belle II, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE (asked), DUNE (asked), Geant4, HSF website updated
But please help broadcast to other communities as well.
Had an HSF planning meeting earlier this week. Organisation: Caterina <–> TJ.
Agenda planning is going well:
- Thursday - Software Plenary
- PyHEP
- Tools and Packaging (Spack focus)
- Nuclear Physics summary and discussion
- This is a follow on from the very successful NP workshop last week
- Improving cooperation and work on common software was a major discussion there
- Training
- Discussion on one more talk
- Friday - Event Generators
- Will expand the session to 3 hours: either 15-18h or 15.30-18.30h
- Lots of ideas for talks
- Contact WG convenors if you have ideas
- Monday - Detector Simulation
- Lots of ideas for talks
- Contact WG convenors if you have ideas
- Tuesday - Open Session
- So far only one abstract submitted
- A lot of informal interest, so still hope this will be a success
AOB
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