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Due to their scale, complexity and cost, large physics/astrophysics projects are very often international “team-science” endeavors. These scientific communities have been learning how to build collaborations that build upon regional capabilities and interests over decades, iteratively with each new generation of large scientific facilities required to advance their scientific knowledge.
While much of this effort has naturally focused on collaborations for the construction of hardware and instrumentation, software is now a critical element to design and maximize the physics discovery potential of large data intensive science projects. To fully realize their discovery potential a new generation of software algorithms and approaches is required. Building these research software collaborations is challenging and inherently international, matching the international nature of the experimental undertakings themselves.
We present the work of the HSF-India project to implement new and impactful research software collaborations between India, Europe and the U.S. The experimental scope of this project is relatively broad, aiming to bring together researchers across facilities with common problems in research. Beyond pursuits of general interest, HSF-India has initiatives specifically for LHC experiments, DUNE, EIC/ePIC, Belle-II and LIGO. By exploiting national capabilities and strengths, established mutual benefits of the HSF-India international collaboration have been fostered through hackathons, experiment-specific workshops and a training network. Together these have enabled early-career researchers to pursue impactful research software initiatives in ways that advance their careers in experimental data-intensive science. In this presentation, we will describe the scope of the HSF-India initiative, its mechanisms for fostering new collaborations, ways for interested research groups to get involved, and project accomplishments to date.