• Attending
• News, general matters, announcements
  • European Strategy Update (EPPSU) final stages
  • HSF/WLCG Workshop
  • HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum
  • Steering Group
  • HSF Affiliated Projects and Software
• Activities Updates
  • Software Training
  • Software Tools and Packaging
  • PyHEP
  • JuliaHEP
  • Next Meeting
  • Chair This Meeting 👇

Attending

Present/Contributing: Ruslan Mashinistov, Tommaso Lari, Michel Jouvin, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Maarten Van Veghel, Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Juan Miguel Carceller

Apologies/Contributing: Christian Wessel (vacation), Eduardo Rodrigues, Michel Villanueva

News, general matters, announcements

European Strategy Update (EPPSU) final stages

The paper, The Critical Importance of Software for HEP, was

• Submitted to the EPPSU process: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1439855/contributions/6461466/
• Uploaded to Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15097159
• Published on arXiv: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.01050 (if you are an editor, ask Michel or Graeme for the arXiv claim code)

The paper was endorsed by ALICE, ATLAS, Belle II, CMS, DUNE, ePIC, LHCb, MCnet and WLCG!

Journal submission: EPJC is waiting our submission but not done yet due to lack of time…

HSF/WLCG Workshop

Registration closed: 91 persons

• Large majority of Europeans
• Most presenters will be present

Agenda almost finalized

HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum

Planned seminars:

• April seminar canceled
• 28th May (as announced last time): Seminar on AdePT and Celeritas update on detector simulation with GPUs.

June has a clash with the EPPSU symposium - TBD if we have a seminar.

Venice workshop report tentatively scheduled for September

HSF seminar conveners are reachable at hsf-seminar-conveners@gmail.com

• Please send your suggestions for next seminars

Steering Group

Last SG meeting took place on April 14th.

The chair (Graeme) ends the mandate on June and leaving CERN; also there are a few members retiring. Some discussion has started on the level of support which can be expected from CERN and possible other contributions.

HSF Affiliated Projects and Software

Discussion ongoing with ACTS which is a candidate

DIRAC : answer expected in the coming week after their collaboration discussion

Activities Updates

Software Training

Future events:

• HSF/WLCG Workshop - May 5-9. We will have a dedicated training session with these talks:
  • The EVERSE training and recognition plan
  • GWOSC and gravitational-wave data analysis training
  • Training on sustainable computing at DESY
  • User learning for ePIC
  • HOWTO Train: The HSF Training experience
• HSF/IRIS-HEP Software Basics Training (Hybrid) - Jun 18-20. Hybrid at CERN. Registration will be open soon
• Deep Learning Train-the-Trainer Workshop - Sept 15-19. Organized by the HSF and ErUM-Data-Hub. In-person in Potsdam. Registration is open! Deadline: August 4

Software Tools and Packaging

Ruslan Mashinistov:

• AI-Assisted Tools Seminar – Planning Update
• Confirmed Speaker:
  • Shuwei Ye (BNL)
  • Reconfirmed availability
  • Will give an experiment-agnostic presentation
  • Topics to be covered: Aider, Ollama (local LLM models), Google NotebookLM. Includes a live demo
• Next Step: Find more presenters
  • I think to try to contact with Mohammad Al-Turany (Co-author of “LLMs for Enhanced Code Review”)

PyHEP

PyHEP.dev 2025 Workshop will be held at University of Washington from July 14 to 17.

JuliaHEP

JuliaHEP 2025 Workshop will be held at Princeton from July 28 to 31.

• Abstract submission deadline: April 30
  • the number of submissions is approaching that of last year
• Early registration deadline for local participation: April 25
  • After April 25 an additional fee will apply
• Final registration deadline: July 7

Next Meeting

The next slot overlaps with the HSF workshop so we won’t have a coordination meeting; the next meeting would be 22 May (TBC)

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