HEP Software Foundation Workshop
This workshop will take place at the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD).
This HEP Software Foundation (HSF) workshop will focus in particular on the Community White Paper (CWP), A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s.
Realizing the physics programs of the planned and/or upgraded HEP experiments over the next 10 years will require the HEP community to address a number of challenges in the area of software and computing. It is expected that the computing models will need to evolve and a significant “software upgrade” is required to prepare. In order to identify and prioritize the software research and development investments required, we are now beginning a community planning process. The aim is to produce a Community White Paper (CWP) which will describe the community strategy and a roadmap for software and computing R&D in HEP for the 2020s. This activity is organised under the umbrella of the HSF. The LHC experiments and HSF have been specifically charged by the WLCG project and we are reaching out to other HEP experiments around the world to participate.
This HSF workshop at SDSC/UCSD will be the first workshop supporting the CWP process. There will be plenary sessions covering topics of general interest as well as parallel sessions for the many topical working groups in progress for the CWP.
Sponsors
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This HSF event is being organised in part by the S2I2-HEP Conceptualization project, including travel support for some participants. The S2I2-HEP project is supported by National Science Foundation grants ACI-1558216, ACI-1558219, and ACI-1558233. |
Industry Sponsors
Additional support for this workshop has been provided by:
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Registration and Continental Breakfast 30m SDSC Auditorium
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Speaker: Michael Norman (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
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Speaker: Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))
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Speaker: Ian Bird (CERN)
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Speaker: Robert Kutschke (Femilab)
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Speaker: Frank-Dieter Gaede (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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Speaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Speaker: Prof. Wenjing Wu (Computer Center, IHEP, CAS)
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Speaker: Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
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Speaker: Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
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Speakers: Helge Meinhard (CERN), Ian Bird (CERN)
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Speaker: Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Speaker: Aaron Sauers (FNAL)
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Continental Breakfast 30m SDSC Auditorium
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Conveners: Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
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Convener: James Kowalkowski (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Conveners: John Harvey (CERN), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Speakers: John Harvey (CERN), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Includes scope, challenges, questions and the plan to have in 6 months all the ingredients for the roadmap CWP
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Convener: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Conveners: David Lange (Princeton University (US)), Vladimir Gligorov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Speaker: Slava Krutelyov (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
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Speaker: Graeme Stewart (University of Glasgow (GB))
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Speaker: Frank-Dieter Gaede (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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Speaker: Johannes Albrecht (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
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Conveners: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US)), Eric Vaandering (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Panel: Data Centres and Facilities Technologies (Clouds, Networks, Storage)¶ SDSC Auditorium
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Conveners: Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Bo Jayatilaka (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Convener: Dr Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Speaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Convener: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Speaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Very short presentations from experiments/groups about:
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Speakers: Ben Couturier (CERN), Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US)), Jeremi Niedziela (Warsaw University of Technology (PL)), Laurent Chevalier (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Matevz Tadel (Univ. of California San Diego (US)), Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US)), Thomas Mc Cauley (University of Notre Dame (US))-
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Convener: Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US))
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Speakers: Mike Hildreth (Department of Physics-College of Science-University of Notre Da), Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US))
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Software Development, Deployment and Validation/Verification¶ SDSC Synthesis Center
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Conveners: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Giulio Eulisse (CERN), Prof. Nan Niu (University of Cincinnati)
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Speaker: Amber Boehnlein
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Speaker: Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
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Speaker: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Speaker: Thomas Hacker (Purdue University (US))
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Speaker: Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
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Speaker: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Speaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US))
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Speaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Speakers: Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Bo Jayatilaka (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Speaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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