The current LHC physics program, and HEP experimental program in general, is enabled by an elaborate software and computing ecosystem. The NSF Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP) was established in September 2018 to perform R&D to meet the challenges of the upcoming HL-LHC era to acquire, manage, process and analyse the expected flood of data. The Institute has now completed its 7th year of its R&D program and continues to play a role as an intellectual hub for HEP software and computing in the community.
The time is right to checkpoint the broad program of software R&D for HEP and continue to elaborate how IRIS-HEP and other US HEP software and computing R&D efforts fit together in a program of work to not only enable science in the HL-LHC era, but also other planned projects such as the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) and the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) as well as nascent (post-P5) efforts towards a potential Future Circular Collider (FCC) and/or a Muon Collider.
The primary theme of this workshop is to explore and establish coherence and alignment within this broad program, as well as emerging opportunities for collaboration. This workshop will bring together representatives from the IRIS-HEP team, representatives from other large R&D efforts, US funding agencies, software and computing management in the stakeholder experiments, representatives of the nascent experimental R&D efforts for FCC and the Muon Collider, national & international laboratories, and other partner projects to make progress toward this goal. Specific questions which the workshop will address include:
- What is the current status, planned deliverables and timelines of ongoing software and computing R&D efforts? Particularly, the US HL-LHC-related efforts such as IRIS-HEP, HEP-CCE and R&D funded by the US-LHC ops programs?
- What are the prioritized R&D needs of the future large-scale projects (planned and nascent) such as DUNE, EIC, FCC and the Muon Collider? How can these projects leverage existing R&D efforts? What new R&D efforts are required? What is project/experiment specific? What is potentially common R&D that would be the highest priority and impactful?
- Going forward, how do R&D needs intersect with international efforts and the funding landscape in the US?
The meeting will consist of initial and final plenary sessions with breakout sessions organized around specific topic areas. Our aim is to answer the questions above as best we can by the end of the meeting as well as identify specific follow-up technical/blueprint meetings (and specific questions/goals for those meetings) that will advance collaboration and progress across the HEP Software and Computing ecosystem. Templates for talks will be provided to keep the focus on these questions.
This workshop builds on the Mini-workshop on HL-LHC Software and Computing R&D held at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in November, 2017, the Coordinated Ecosystem for HL-LHC Computing R&D workshop, also held at CUA, in October, 2019 and the Coordinated Ecosystem for HL-LHC Computing R&D workshop held at the Washington DC office of the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs in November, 2022.
This event will take place at the Washington DC office of the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs, Suite 120, 1400 16th St NW, Washington, DC. See Venue for location details.
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This event is being organised by the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software (IRIS-HEP) with support from National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement OAC-2323298. |
