2026-01-26

News

• Should increase attention to forum: talk to pinged colleagues, follow up during handover
• Start tackling PoW for this year
• Summer student proposals submitted (centrally), Danilo to take care of GSoC
• Philippe is coming (mid next week), preparing a document of topics to discuss

Shift Handover

Giacomo -> Marta

• Failing cppyy test, JonasR and Vincenzo are trying to reproduce
• Giacomo investigating failure of parallelMergingFile
• Sporadically failing RNTuple tutorials on Windows: not possible to reproduce

Meeting Summaries

• I/O meeting:
  • Numbers by Florine on lossy compression
  • ATLAS + RNTuple: looking into issues with parallel file merger
• Statistical Analysis Software: this week
• Python-C++ Bindings:
  • Weekly development meeting
  • Company joined from Chicago, want to update their own stack based on CppInterOp
• PPP: couple of pending topics / ideas (Florine, cancelled talk from RUW, JonasH)
• LIM: missed the meeting

Liasons' Report

• DUNE:
  • Jakob + Bertrand met for DUNE analysis format
  • Asking for advice moving to RNTuple
  • Use case for intra-event links
  • Objectification of flat data
  • More meetings this week
• ATLAS:
  • New initiative: "Integration Challenge", follow-up to AGC
• CMS:
  • CAT meeting on Wednesday
• ALICE:
  • Talking to Guilio about bug, cannot reproduce -> asked to verify
• FCC: Stephan is in Munich
• LHCb: Silia is in Paris

Round Table

see Status Report Document