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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Introduction and Overview SDSC Auditorium
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Workshop Welcome 5mSpeaker: Michael Norman (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
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Status of HSF and Community White Paper Plans 25mSpeaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))
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LHC Future Challenges - Physics 20mSpeaker: Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))
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LHC Future Challenges - Software/Computing 15mSpeaker: Ian Bird (CERN)
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Challenges for the Fermilab neutrino and muon programs 15mSpeaker: Robert Kutschke (Femilab)
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Software plans and challenges for Linear Collider 10mSpeaker: Frank-Dieter Gaede (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and the HSF 10mSpeaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Discussion 20m
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Coffee Break 30m
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Introduction SDSC Auditorium
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HEP experiments and software status in China 15mSpeaker: Prof. Wenjing Wu (Computer Center, IHEP, CAS)
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NSF View 20mSpeaker: Bogdan Mihaila (National Science Foundation)
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DOE View 20mSpeaker: Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
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Other agencies view (survey) 20mSpeaker: Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
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Lunch (Group photo at 13:15) 1h
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Computing Models, Facilities and Distributed Computing SDSC Auditorium
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CERN Cloud and Facilities Outlook 20mSpeakers: Helge Meinhard (CERN), Ian Bird (CERN)
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The Fermilab HEPCloud, or How to add 240 TFlops in an hour or two 20mSpeaker: Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Technology overview 20mSpeaker: Helge Meinhard (CERN)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Invited Talks and Contributed White Papers SDSC Auditorium
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OSS Licensing 15mSpeaker: Aaron Sauers (FNAL)
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Citation and Reproducibility in Software 30mSpeaker: Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois)
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Survey of Contributed White Papers 45mSpeakers: Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
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Reception 2h SDSC Auditorium
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Continental Breakfast 30m SDSC Auditorium
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Panel: Compute Architectures, platforms and software performance SDSC Auditorium
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Simulation SDSC Synthesis Center
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Goals of the Session 5mSpeakers: John Harvey (CERN), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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ATLAS 10m
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CMS 10m
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Geant4 10mSpeaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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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
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Lunch (SDSC Data Center Tour at 13:00) 1h SDSC Auditorium
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Introduction + Goals 8m
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Comments/Needs for CMS event reconstruction 8mSpeaker: Slava Krutelyov (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
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Comments/Needs for Atlas event reconstruction 8mSpeaker: Graeme Stewart (University of Glasgow (GB))
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AIDA 2020 projects 8mSpeaker: Frank-Dieter Gaede (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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Comments/Needs from LHCb 8mSpeaker: Johannes Albrecht (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
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Discussion of event processing charge 40m
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Discussion of triggering wg charge 40m
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Plan for WG goals, meetings and timeline 30m
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Workflow and Resource Management SDSC Synthesis Center
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Conveners: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US)), Eric Vaandering (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Continental Breakfast 30m SDSC Auditorium
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Panel: Data Centres and Facilities Technologies (Clouds, Networks, Storage) SDSC Auditorium
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Data Access and Management SDSC Synthesis Center
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Data Analytics and Machine Learning SDSC Auditorium
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Introduction to ML WG and Charge 20mSpeaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Group formation 10m
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Groups break-out: discussion and formulation of questions 1h
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Visualization SDSC Conference room 408
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Introduction + Goals + "Tools&Libraries Survey" summary 10mSpeaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Current status / Input for discussion 50m
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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Desktop - AliEVE (ALICE) 3mSpeaker: Jeremi Niedziela (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
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Desktop - Persint (ATLAS) 3mSpeaker: Laurent Chevalier (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
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Desktop - Panoramix + LHCb Masterclasses (LHCb) 3mSpeaker: Ben Couturier (CERN)
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Desktop - VP1 (ATLAS) 3mSpeaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Web - Tracer (ATLAS) 3mSpeaker: Alexander Sharmazanashvili (Georgian Technical University (GE))
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Web - TADA (ATLAS) 3mSpeaker: Edward Moyse (University of Massachusetts (US))
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Virtual Reality - ATLASRift (ATLAS) 3mSpeaker: Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US))
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Game engines - ALICE Total Event (ALICE) 3mSpeaker: Jeremi Niedziela (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
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break 20m
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Plan for WG goals, meetings and timeline 50m
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Discussion on Visualization charge 50m
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Lunch (SDSC Data Center Tour at 13:00) 1h SDSC Auditorium
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Panel: Applying Machine Learning in HEP SDSC Auditorium
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Data Analytics and Machine Learning SDSC Auditorium
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Groups break-out: discussions of questions/CWP sections 1h
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Data and Software Preservation SDSC Conference room 408
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Convener: Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US))-
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Discussion of Scope, Charge 1hSpeakers: Mike Hildreth (Department of Physics-College of Science-University of Notre Da), Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US))
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Analysis on S3 20mSpeaker: Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)
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Analysis Preservation Discussion 30m
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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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Continental Breakfast 30m SDSC Auditorium
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Summaries and Next Steps SDSC Auditorium
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Future software challenges at Jefferson Lab 15mSpeaker: Amber Boehnlein
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Community Building for the Science Gateways Software Institute 15mSpeaker: Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
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Simulation WG 10mSpeaker: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Data and Software Preservation WG 10mSpeaker: Thomas Hacker (Purdue University (US))
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Data Analysis and Interpretation WG 10mSpeaker: Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
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Event Processing Framework WG 10mSpeaker: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Workflow and Resource Management WG 10mSpeaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US))
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Coffee Break 30m SDSC Auditorium
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Summaries and Next Steps SDSC Auditorium
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Data Analytics and Machine Learning WG 10mSpeaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Discussion on the Role of ROOT in the medium/long term 10mSpeaker: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Data Access and Management WG 10mSpeakers: Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Bo Jayatilaka (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Visualization WG 10mSpeaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Software Development, Deployment and Validation/Verification WG 10mSpeaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)
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Triggering and Reconstruction 10mSpeaker: David Lange (Princeton University (US))
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Next Steps 50m
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