Key4hep Discussion
SFT/Key4hep Meeting
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Attendees: Carsten, Annika, Juan, Mateusz, Swathi, Andre, Leonhard,
Apologies:
Date: October 24, 2023
## News
* Call to sign up as a Science Gateway guide, apparently only 20% of shifts filled
* EP RnD Annual and Close out Report: contributions for 2023 see email for overleaf link
## Round The Table
#### Carsten
* New project student from Netzwerk Teilchenwelt: Annika
* Cut based analysis for higgs to invisible with HZ->Z->MuMu
* Have to add FastJet configuration, to be provided by Leonhard
* k4ProjectTemplate mentions the release, which is currently not working with
#### Juan
* Spack bump, solved somes with Geant4 and glib,
* some tests are failing now because environment variables are not "forward" populated
* On ubuntu the concretizer fails to concretize impossible requirements
* Start investigating builds with c++20, allowing some packages to be build with this standard
* Preparing new release of Key4hep stack, many open PRs in HEP-FCC, timeline for them to be understood
* Digitisation algorithm DDPlanarDigi converted to Gaudi, using GaudiHistogram Service
* Next step: Overlay
* genGonf needed to be done at all?
* What is genConf used for?
* multithreading in Gaudi: To be discussed with Marco
#### Mateusz
* Reading Gaudi source code
#### Swathi
* Trying to use the LAr digitiser with help from Juraj
* Started k4GaudiPandora, merged DDMarlinPandora to k4ProjectTemplate based repo
* Writing paper on lowPT gg to hadron generator with Mikael, Jenny (and Tim Barklow)
#### Andre
* NTR
#### Leonhard
* Fix for surfaces in OpenDataDetector
* CLDConfig: test with EDM4hep added, simulation test added
* CLDConfig: adding tracking only flag, disable clustering
* CLDConfig: using EDM4hep input, are relations between PFOs and clusters/tracks working ?
* Good to know before we make the release
## AOB
### Key4hep Documentation
- [ ] Should remove references to starterkit
## Next Meeting
October 31, 2023
## TODO
* CLD Reco
* [x] CLDConfig Repository
* [x] Save history from ClicPerformance of FCCConfig
* [x] Add test with EDM4hep input