HEP Software Foundation Workshop

US/Pacific
Kavli Auditorium (SLAC)

Kavli Auditorium

SLAC

Amber Boehnlein, Pere Mato Vila (CERN), Richard Philip Mount (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
Description

This is a followup of the HEP software collaboration initial workshop that took place at CERN in April. The main goal of thi workshop is to refine the next steps for building the HEP Software Foundation (HSF) that is being organized to facilitate coordination and common efforts in high energy physics (HEP) software and computing internationally.

As you see from the timetable, much time is reserved for community input. Please sign up to present your input as an individual, project, experiment, etc. Abstract submission is now open. Please submit your proposals before January 19th 2015 using the link on the left side box on the indico main page.

The event page on the HSF website for this workshop is here.

SLAC's web page for the meeting with information on registration, attendees, local logistics etc. is here.

If you plan to participate remotely please add your name to this doodle poll.

In preparing your contributions please make use of this document of guidelines and questions to address.

Workshop notes

Next steps

    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 30m Kavli Auditorium

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    • 09:00 09:20
      Welcome 20m Kavli Auditorium

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      Speakers: Amber Boehnlein, Dr Richard Philip Mount (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
    • 09:20 10:20
      Status Kavli Auditorium

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      Convener: Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      • 09:20
        What has been done so far 20m
        Speakers: Dr Pere Mato Vila (CERN), Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 09:50
        White Paper synthesis 20m
        Speaker: Andrea Valassi (CERN)
        Slides
    • 10:20 10:40
      Coffee Break 20m Kavli Auditorium

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    • 10:40 12:40
      Software collaboration: Learning from others Kavli Auditorium

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      Communities with similar initiatives

      Convener: Dr Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))
      • 10:40
        The Apache Foundation 20m
        Speaker: Brian Behlendorf (Apache Foundation)
      • 11:20
        Building scientific software communities 20m
        Speaker: Dan Katz (UChicago/Argonne)
        Slides
      • 12:00
        The Software Sustainability Institute 20m
        Speaker: Neil Chue Hong
        Slides
    • 12:40 14:00
      Lunch 1h 20m Kavli Auditorium

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    • 14:00 16:00
      Community views: Sciences & experiments Kavli Auditorium

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      Convener: Mr Michel Jouvin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
      • 14:00
        Astroparticle physics: An LSST perspective 6m
        Speaker: Kian-Tat Lim (urn:Google)
        Slides
      • 14:10
        Photon science 6m
        Speaker: Dr Amedeo Perazzo (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 14:20
        Intensity frontier 6m
        Speaker: Maxim Potekhin (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 14:30
        Belle II 6m
        Speaker: Lynn Wood (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
        Slides
      • 14:40
        ALICE 6m
        Remote presentation
        Slides
      • 14:50
        ATLAS 6m
        Speaker: Dr Richard Philip Mount (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 15:00
        CMS 6m
        Speaker: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
        Slides
      • 15:10
        LHCb 6m
        Speaker: Ben Couturier (CERN)
        Slides
      • 15:20
        Linear collider 6m
        Speaker: Jan Fridolf Strube (S)
        Slides
      • 15:30
        Future circular collider 6m
        Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)
        Slides
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee Break 30m Kavli Auditorium

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    • 16:30 18:26
      Project views: Learning from experience Kavli Auditorium

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      Convener: Andrea Valassi (CERN)
      • 16:30
        Lessons for successful common software projects 6m
        Speaker: Dr Rene Brun (CERN)
        Slides
      • 16:40
        A view from ROOT 6m
        Speaker: Dr Pere Mato Vila (CERN)
        Slides
      • 16:50
        A view from Geant4 developers 6m
        Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 17:00
        Computing systems roadmap and its impact on software development 6m
        Speaker: Michael Ernst
        Slides
      • 17:10
        Software Stacks used by the Dayabay Experiment 6m
        Speaker: Dr Simon Patton (LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY)
        Slides
      • 17:20
        OSG perspective on managing software stacks 6m
        Remote presentation
        Speaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska (US))
        Slides
      • 17:30
        LCG software stack management 6m
        Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)
        Slides
      • 17:40
        Fermilab's vision of a Software Ecosystem 6m
        Speaker: Jim Kowalkowski (Fermilab)
        Slides
      • 17:50
        Fermilab's contribution to the HSF 6m
        Speaker: Philippe Canal (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
        Slides
      • 18:00
        Gaudi common framework evolution 6m
        Speaker: Marco Clemencic (CERN)
        Slides
      • 18:10
        Lessons learned from FreeHEP 6m
        Speaker: Tony Johnson (SLAC)
        Slides
    • 19:00 22:00
      Social Dinner Trellis, Menlo Park

      Trellis, Menlo Park

      slides
    • 09:00 10:30
      Community views: Common software needs & opportunities Kavli Auditorium

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      Convener: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
      • 09:00
        Common software needs and opportunities for HPCs 6m
        Speaker: Thomas Le Compte (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 09:10
        PyROOT, cppyy, and the Python ecosphere 6m
        Speaker: Wim Lavrijsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
        Slides
      • 09:20
        Experience & perspective from the Concurrency Forum 6m
        Speaker: Dr Pere Mato Vila (CERN)
        Slides
      • 09:30
        Vac Project views on HSF 6m
        Speaker: Andrew McNab (University of Manchester (GB))
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Data preservation 6m
        Speaker: Andrea Valassi (CERN)
        Slides
      • 09:50
        Advanced web tools (plus short statement from INAF) 6m
        Speaker: Dario Menasce (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
      • 10:00
        DAQ, Controls and Monitoring 6m
        Speaker: Giovanni Mazzitelli (INFN)
        Slides
      • 10:10
        Perspective on teaching software 6m
        Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)
        Slides
    • 10:30 10:50
      Coffee Break 20m Kavli Auditorium

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    • 10:50 12:06
      New project initiatives Kavli Auditorium

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      Potential new common projects

      Convener: Dario Menasce (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
      • 10:50
        fads: a fast detector simulation toolkit 6m
        Remote presentation
        Speaker: Dr Sebastien Binet (IN2P3/LAL)
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Needs and considerations for a consortium of particle accelerator modeling 6m
        Speaker: Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
        Slides
      • 11:10
        Belle II's conditions database 6m
        Speaker: Lynn Wood (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
        Slides
      • 11:20
        SLAC workflow engine and data catalog 6m
        Speaker: Brian Van Klaveren (SLAC National Lab)
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Fine grained processing with an Event Service 6m
        Speakers: Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Vakho Tsulaia (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Building a HEP software knowledge base 6m
        Speakers: Brett Viren (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Public repository with theoretical predictions for HEP community 6m
        Remote presentation
        Speaker: Sergei Chekanov (Argonne National Laboratory (US))
        Slides
    • 12:00 12:50
      National, agency and Institution Views Kavli Auditorium

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      Institutions, national reps and agencies are invited to informally express their views

      Convener: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
      • 12:00
        US DOE 6m
        Speaker: Lali Chatterjee (DOE HEP Computing)
        Slides
      • 12:10
        CERN and WLCG 6m
        Speaker: Ian Bird (CERN)
        Slides
      • 12:20
        Japan and KEK 6m
        Speaker: Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))
        Slides
      • 12:30
        INFN 6m
        Speaker: Dario Menasce (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
    • 12:50 14:15
      Lunch Break 1h 25m Kavli Auditorium

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    • 14:15 16:15
      Next Steps Kavli Auditorium

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      Structured discussion to reach consensus and agreements on next steps, covering
      - HSF scope and objectives
      - HSF startup, organization, communication
      - Initiatives, projects, services to target
      - Engaging with other communities: concrete steps
      - Action list and timeline
      - Objectives for CHEP face to face meeting
      - HSF events (workshops, schools, tutorials, ...) in the next year

      Conveners: Dr Pere Mato Vila (CERN), Dr Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
      Next steps
    • 16:15 16:30
      Wrap-up 15m Kavli Auditorium

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      Finalization of next day's program
    • 09:30 12:00
      iFB Meeting Redwood A+B

      Redwood A+B

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      Workshop post-mortem and followup. All are welcome

      Next steps
    • 12:00 13:30
      Lunch Break 1h 30m Kavli Auditorium

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    • 13:00 15:30
      HSF-community discussions Redwood A+B

      Redwood A+B

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      We start at 1pm, other than that, times are approximate

      • 13:00
        Astroparticle physics 30m
      • 13:30
        Geant4 40m
      • 14:10
        Photon science 40m