Present/Contributing: Eduardo Rodrigues, Patrick Gartung, Tommaso Lari, Pere Mato, Stefan Roiser, Anushka Saxena, Claire Antel, Michel Jouvin, Joe Osborn, Jim Pivarski, Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Alexander Moreno, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Stephen Mrenna
Apologies/Contributing: Torre Wenaus, Graeme Stewart, Alexander Held
Dear Colleagues from Research / Infrastructures,
The SPECTRUM project [1] and the JENA Computing Initiative [2] are conducting a survey to gather insights on current best practice and expected future evolutions in the domain of large scale / data intensive scientific computing.
The survey is directed at researchers, managers of scientific initiatives and infrastructure managers, either on individual or institutional bases.
Our goal is to collect from the community insights on current best practice and expected future evolutions in the domain of large scale / data intensive scientific computing. This is important also for you, if you want to inform policy makers and funders about the needs from science and infrastructures and push in the direction of future interoperability.
Please consider filling this in and also helping to disseminate it to your colleagues.
The survey is differentiated - filling in the Software and Training part (of most interest to the HSF) should only take 10-15 minutes.
The next WLCG/HSF meeting will be hosted by IJCLab in Orsay next May 5-9 (thank you Michel!).
We will need people for the organising team - please say if you are interested.
Topics of mutual interest with WLCG are favoured, but there will also be HSF dedicated sessions.
The European Particle Physics Strategy Update will be next year:
We think it is a very good idea to have an input from the HSF on the software that we need for the future and how we achieve it. This would be a mini-update of the CWP from 2017.
We believe that input coordinated by our activity areas will be critical to doing this, especially from the critical areas of event generation, simulation, reconstruction and analysis; however, we should not at all forget the people dimension, so training and careers are vital to cover.
Michel and Graeme agreed to help coordinating this work but other volunteers are most welcome (required!) to help.
Eduardo circulated the link to the LHCC presentation via the Architects’ Forum meeting. The slides were presented on Sep. 10th. They were very well received.
Very positive feedback received from the LHCC about the clarifications of the respective roles/responsibilities of the HSF and CERN SFT and the coordination/collaboration between them.
First HSF Seminar will be organised as part of JuliaHEP:
We would like to organise further seminars on
The regular slot should be the last Wednesday of each month, at 16h30 CEST.
Steering Group members who offered to coordinate the organisation: Benedikt, Michel, Andrea.
Suggestions for topics are really needed!
There was a Steering Group meeting on 9 September and the minutes are available on the website.
Our working groups and activities have been merged into a single “Activities” area on the website (PR).
“Reviews” sits a bit awkwardly here (and it’s not even complete) so needs a revamp.
Areas which were actually not active at all were moved to a archived area (Analysis Facilities Forum, Conditions Databases, Differentiable Computing, Frameworks, Visualisation).
Currently in the process of scheduling a talk on Scipp, likely in Oct. or early Nov.
We briefly discussed on Monday 9th the contribution to the European Strategy. The White Paper and the HSF software tools document for the HL-LHC LHCC review both include a 6-page section on simulation, emphasizing the importance of simulation for HEP and describing the direction of R&D effort to improve the accuracy and computing efficiency of simulation. There is also a simulation document submitted for Snowmass which is relevant. We propose to prepare something along similar lines in terms of scope and length. Details still needs to be worked out.
Have gotten in touch with 2 speakers for an HSF Seminar on 4D track reco.
PyHEP.dev took place in Aachen, 26 Aug - 30 Aug. A workshop report is being prepared, to be published on the ArXiv. It’s truly a community-driven document, as nearly all participants contributed to the paper.
There is an issue in GitHub to gather ideas about reorganising and revamping the website to better reflect our areas of actual activity. Please contact Mark and Graeme if you would like to help.
Next meeting will be 26 September.
Reminder: please sign up for chairing this or one of the future coordination meetings - we need volunteers from now until the end of the year!