Present/Contributing: Graeme Stewart, Benedikt Hegner, Pere Mato Vila, Serhan Mete, Torre Wenaus, Allison Hall, Paul Laycock, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Alexander Moreno, Nicola Skidmore, Michel Jouvin, Krzysztof Genser, Marc Paterno, Stefan Roiser, Michel Villanueva, Ben Morgan, Michel Jouvin
Apologies/Contributing: Dorothea Vom Bruch
There was a Software and Computing Roundtable meeting this week. Benedikt gave an HSF Review of 2021 talk, highlighting many successes in a (still) challenging year.
Tried to also convey the message that we want to improve engagement with non-LHC experiements.
There is a DOE supported ASCR workshop 13-15 December on scientific software. Graeme, Liz and Eduardo wrote/contributed to a paper we submitted, that has now been accepted.
Liz will participate in a ‘roundtable’ format and needs to prepare something like a poster summary of the paper. Do we have any HSF posters? AFAWK no, but we do have plenty of talks to draw on.
(The list of HSF talks is a bit out of date, Graeme will try to update it for 2021.)
Possible Analysis Ecosystems workshop in May still being sounded out. Gordon is looking for dates to host at CPPM in Marseille.
Would like to have a review/discussion of progress on simulation on GPUs (AdePT, Celeritas), probably also in May (not the same week!).
Call for WG Conveners is open and closes this weekend (Sunday 12). Quite a few nominations received, but always happy to get more.
We added a clarification on the WG page that we seek convener diversity, particularly from different experiments in the team.
C++ Course regular curriculumn development meeting next week, https://indico.cern.ch/category/14413/.
There was a meeting yesterday which covered the very interesting VecMem library (from ACTS) and GPU simulation from the beams department (as usual, videos are uploaded to CDS and YouTube).
The organising team (Graeme, Ben, Stefan, Maria, Michael) have started putting together the programme for next year, so suggestions always welcome!
As mentioned above, there was a Software and Computing Roundtable meeting this week where Benedikt gave an HSF Review of 2021 talk. There were also talks from the BNL and JLab perspectives.
The meetings for next year are also being organised… contact Graeme, Torre and Paul if you have suggestions for topics.
Noted that there’s really no HSF activity here, so we agree to drop this as an HSF activity.
Noted that there’s really no HSF activity here (cf. CERN QTI), so we agree to drop this as an HSF activity.
A new HSF Activity for Conditions Databases? BNL are adapting the Belle II conditions database design, which largely follows HSF CWP best practice, for the sPHENIX experiment. In so doing they are taking this as an opportunity to design something that incorporates as much of the experience and expertise from other experiments as possible. Paul Laycock, Andrea Formica and Giacomo Govi are interested in attempting to define “the” API for a conditions database (independent of technology choices). Other interesting discussion topics would be technology choices for the server, payload serialisation, calibration workflows, etc. This also relates to the relevant parts of the Data Analysis working group’s “Metadata” summary paper, particularly analysis global tags. The interested community is small but that makes knowledge exchange all the more important. Would it make sense to make this an HSF activity? It already covers experts from ATLAS, CMS, Belle II, DUNE and sPHENIX!
Supported in the meeting and noted that a lot of work was done around the CWP, with considerable consensus achieved. Hope to define the API and then give a reference implementation? Benedikt volunteers to help as well. Should contact André Sailer for Key4hep link.
GSoC 2022 is coming!
Who will follow up and coordinate the next round in 2022?
Our current organisers have been doing a great job, for quite a few years, so we can foresee some rotation for next year. Please contact Benedikt if you would be interested (or want to volunteer someone!).
Reminder to put in events into the calendar.
This is the last meeting for 2021, so we wish everyone a really good break over the holiday period!
We will restart meetings on 6 January - dedicate that meeting to review of 2021 and starting to think about planning for 2022.
The meeting slots in Indico for next year are now booked.