Software Project Discussion on Multi-Threading

Wednesday 6 May 2020, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Zoom

Discussion on strategy for multi-threading between different HEP projects and frameworks, in the light of Intel deprecating the low level tbb::task API that we rely on in HEP in multiple areas:

https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneTBB/issues/243

 

The meeting will quickly review the status of major frameworks and projects and discuss on the options for migration and evolution.

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Live Notes

17:00 → 17:10 Introduction

Speaker: Graeme A Stewart (CERN)

Software Project Discussion on Multi-Threading 2020-05-06(1).pdf

17:10 → 17:15 CMSSW

Speaker: Christopher Jones (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

CMS Position on TBB Change.pdf

17:15 → 17:25 Gaudi (ATLAS and LHCb)

Speakers: Illya Shapoval (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Marco Clemencic (CERN)

Gaudi_TBBTaskAPI.pdf

Proposal.Gaudi.HPX.pdf

TBB in LHCb.pdf

17:25 → 17:30 ROOT

Speaker: Enric Tejedor Saavedra (CERN)

MT meeting - ROOT - 06-05-20.pdf

17:30 → 17:35 Geant4

Speakers: Dr Jonathan Madsen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Geant4-threading.pdf

17:35 → 17:55 Discussion on Strategy