HEP Software Foundation Workshop

US/Pacific
Description

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

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:

Nvida

 

    • 08:00 08:30
      Continental Breakfast 30m SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 08:30 09:30
      Panel: Compute Architectures, platforms and software performance SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 09:30 12:30
      Data Analysis and Interpretation SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

      Conveners: Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
    • 09:30 12:30
      Event Processing Frameworks SDSC Conference room 408

      SDSC Conference room 408

      Convener: James Kowalkowski (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    • 09:30 12:30
      Simulation SDSC Synthesis Center

      SDSC Synthesis Center

      Conveners: John Harvey (CERN), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
      • 09:30
        Goals of the Session 5m
        Speakers: John Harvey (CERN), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
      • 09:35
        ATLAS 10m

        Short presentation to introduce talking points on requirements, challenges, ideas

      • 09:45
        CMS 10m

        Short presentation to introduce talking points on requirements, challenges, ideas

        Speaker: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
      • 09:55
        Intensity Frontier Experiments 10m

        Short presentation to introduce talking points on requirements, challenges, ideas

        Speaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
      • 10:05
        Geant4 10m
        Speaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
      • 10:15
        GeantV 10m
        Speaker: Federico Carminati (CERN)
      • 10:30
        Discussion on WG charge, plan 2h

        Includes scope, challenges, questions and the plan to have in 6 months all the ingredients for the roadmap CWP

        Speaker: All
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch (SDSC Data Center Tour at 13:00) 1h SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 13:30 17:00
      Role of ROOT in the medium/long term SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

      Convener: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    • 13:30 17:20
      Triggering and Reconstruction SDSC Conference room 408

      SDSC Conference room 408

      Conveners: David Lange (Princeton University (US)), Vladimir Gligorov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
      • 13:30
        Introduction + Goals 8m
      • 13:45
        Comments/Needs for CMS event reconstruction 8m
        Speaker: Slava Krutelyov (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
      • 13:55
        Comments/Needs for Atlas event reconstruction 8m
        Speaker: Graeme Stewart (University of Glasgow (GB))
      • 14:05
        AIDA 2020 projects 8m
        Speaker: Frank-Dieter Gaede (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
      • 14:15
        Comments/Needs for FCC 8m
        Speaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)
      • 14:25
        Comments/Needs from LHCb 8m
        Speaker: Johannes Albrecht (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
      • 15:10
        Discussion of event processing charge 40m
      • 15:50
        Discussion of triggering wg charge 40m
      • 16:30
        Plan for WG goals, meetings and timeline 30m
    • 13:30 17:00
      Workflow and Resource Management SDSC Synthesis Center

      SDSC Synthesis Center

      Conveners: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US)), Eric Vaandering (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    • 08:00 08:30
      Continental Breakfast 30m SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 08:30 09:30
      Panel: Data Centres and Facilities Technologies (Clouds, Networks, Storage) SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 09:30 12:30
      Data Access and Management SDSC Synthesis Center

      SDSC Synthesis Center

      Conveners: Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Bo Jayatilaka (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
    • 09:30 12:30
      Data Analytics and Machine Learning SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

      Convener: Dr Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
      • 09:30
        Introduction to ML WG and Charge 20m
        Speaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
      • 09:50
      • 10:00
        Groups break-out: discussion and formulation of questions 1h
      • 11:00
        Short group presentations of formulated questions 30m
      • 11:30
        Group work on questions 1h
    • 09:30 12:30
      Visualization SDSC Conference room 408

      SDSC Conference room 408

      Convener: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
      • 09:30
        Introduction + Goals + "Tools&Libraries Survey" summary 10m
        Speaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
      • 09:40
        Current status / Input for discussion 50m

        Very short presentations from experiments/groups about:

        • Desktop technologies
        • Web-based technologies
        • Virtual reality
        • Game engines

        The presentations are meant to provide input for discussion and brain-storming within the WG.

        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))
      • 10:30
        break 20m
      • 10:50
        Plan for WG goals, meetings and timeline 50m
      • 11:40
        Discussion on Visualization charge 50m
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch (SDSC Data Center Tour at 13:00) 1h SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 13:30 14:30
      Panel: Applying Machine Learning in HEP SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 14:30 17:00
      Data Analytics and Machine Learning SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

      • 14:30
        Groups break-out: discussions of questions/CWP sections 1h
      • 15:30
        Short group presentations of questions and discussions 30m
      • 16:00
        Group work on future roadmap 30m
      • 16:30
        Summary and next steps 30m
    • 14:30 17:00
      Data and Software Preservation SDSC Conference room 408

      SDSC Conference room 408

      Convener: Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US))
      • 14:30
        Discussion of Scope, Charge 1h
        Speakers: Mike Hildreth (Department of Physics-College of Science-University of Notre Da), Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US))
      • 15:30
        Analysis on S3 20m
        Speaker: Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)
      • 15:50
        Analysis Preservation Discussion 30m
    • 14:30 17:00
      Software Development, Deployment and Validation/Verification SDSC Synthesis Center

      SDSC Synthesis Center

      Conveners: Benedikt Hegner (CERN), Giulio Eulisse (CERN), Prof. Nan Niu (University of Cincinnati)
    • 08:00 08:30
      Continental Breakfast 30m SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 08:30 10:00
      Summaries and Next Steps SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium

    • 10:30 12:30
      Summaries and Next Steps SDSC Auditorium

      SDSC Auditorium