Key4hep Discussion
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