In 2017 the HEP Software Foundation, charged by the WLCG, produced a roadmap white paper on the software and computing challenges that will be faced during the next decade. This has been published in the journal Computing and Software for Big Science.
A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s, The HEP Software Foundation, Albrecht, J. et al., Comput Softw Big Sci (2019) 3, 7 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41781-018-0018-8.
We recommend you download the citation files (BibTeX and others) for the paper from the journal website.
The roadmap is also available as arXiv:1712.06982.
The roadmap summarised reports from fourteen working groups who studied the challenges in their sub-domains. All of the reports produced during the Community White Paper process are listed below. Working groups are in the process of finalising and uploading their work to arXiv.
| Paper | Report Number | Link |
|---|---|---|
| CWP Roadmap | HSF-CWP-2017-01 | arXiv |
| Careers & Training | HSF-CWP-2017-02 | arXiv |
| Conditions Data | HSF-CWP-2017-03 | arXiv |
| Data Organisation, Management and Access | HSF-CWP-2017-04 | arXiv |
| Data Analysis and Interpretation | HSF-CWP-2017-05 | arXiv |
| Data and Software Preservation | HSF-CWP-2017-06 | arXiv |
| Detector Simulation | HSF-CWP-2017-07 | arXiv |
| Event/Data Processing Frameworks | HSF-CWP-2017-08 | arXiv |
| Facilities and Distributed Computing | HSF-CWP-2017-09 | Google Doc |
| Machine Learning | HSF-CWP-2017-10 | arXiv |
| Physics Generators | - | No separate paper, see CWP Roadmap, section 3.1 |
| Security | - | No separate paper, see CWP Roadmap, section 3.13 |
| Software Development, Deployment and Validation | HSF-CWP-2017-13 | arXiv |
| Software Trigger and Event Reconstruction | HSF-CWP-2017-14 | arXiv - Executive Summary; arXiv - full document |
| Visualisation | HSF-CWP-2017-15 | arXiv |
This is a list of talks about the CWP Roadmap that were given by various HSF members:
A historical page is maintained that describes in more detail the process that the community took to arrive at the final outcome.