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SFT/Key4hep Meeting
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Attendees: Swathi, Andre, Juan, Mateusz, Benedikt

Apologies: Leonhard

Date: March 5, 2024

## News

* Summer student selection for P1 projects until March 12

## Round The Table

### Swathi

* Submitted abstract for ICHEP

### Mateusz

* Working on extracting control and dataflow from precedence service, but it produces non-compliant XML files
* Different words used for the same thing in different places, or same words with different meaning
* Wrote own service to extract information
* Python-modernized/2to3'ed scripts to deal with control and dataflow files
* Where to get some data? Ask Marco
* --> Make PR with fixed scripts and service

### Juan

* EDM4hep Sprint developments
* Overlay developments
    * Providing different background sources in one execution of the processor?
        * LL/BW/BH GGHadron, incoherent Pairs, Accelerator Muons, Cosmics, SR...
        * https://github.com/iLCSoft/ILDConfig/blob/master/StandardConfig/production/Documentation/HowToRunBgOverlay.md#running-the-reconstruction-with-the-overlay-background?
* k4Reco: DDPlanarDigi updated, danger of random number sequences aligning if not super carefully choosing our random seeds?
    * Probably not? But reproducibility is more important

TODO: New Key4hep release

### Andre

* https://github.com/key4hep/k4geo/pull/326

### Benedikt

* podio/EDM4hep developments,
    * discussing with EIC about streaming data in podio format for distributed processing
    * Julia interface for podio
* Key4hep presentation for ACAT
    * Pandora for LAr (Swathi), ACTS (Leonhard), FCC Annecy meeting about detector (model) details

* Google Season of Docs: Technical Writer for Key4hep?

* Ukrainian student starting end of next week
    * Selecting libraries to do heterogeneous processing


### Leonhard

## AOB

## Next Meeting

March 12, 2024

## TODO

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    • 13:00 → 13:55
      Round The Table 55m
      Speakers: Andre Sailer (CERN), Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Juan Miguel Carceller (CERN), Leonhard Reichenbach (University of Bonn (DE)), Swathi Sasikumar (CERN)