In the presentations on the first day of the workshop, we are focused on the goals, structure and collaborative nature (how they fit into the ecosystem) of ongoing R&D projects more than an extensive summary of their outputs. Some rough guidance for preparing talks:
- Project Summaries
- Brief descriptive summary of the R&D project goals, level of effort, institutions/personnel involved and timeline
- Is it generic work, or experiment specific?
- Where do the efforts fit into the HL-LHC software & computing ecosystem?
- To be used as part of reconstruction, part of the analysis pipeline, facilities, underlying infrastructure, etc.
- What other projects are you collaborating with (currently, planning)?
- List the connections with other projects (national and international)
- What the connections are bringing to the table or you are giving them, and if they are healthy
- What connections are there with US-LHC Operations programs? With the experiments?
- US ATLAS and US CMS have large software and computing groups - how aware of the work are they, are they collaborating?
- Is there a delivery mechanism for the output of the R&D project to the experiments or the operations programs?
- What connections are you missing and would be good to build?
- Are there things around you in the ecosystem that do not exist, but if they were there it would make your project more impactful or increase its chances of success?
For the LHC Operations programs (similar to talks given at the recent IRIS-HEP Retreat) and DUNE software/computing:
- Summary of known ATLAS, CMS and DUNE resource needs and (in particular) gaps
- Brief overview of major software/computing R&D efforts which are underway
- Thoughts on improving connections to other known R&D projects that should work more closely with the Operations programs
