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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08:00
Registration and Continental Breakfast SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Introduction and Overview SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Workshop WelcomeSpeaker: Michael Norman (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
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Status of HSF and Community White Paper PlansSpeaker: Peter Elmer (Princeton University (US))
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LHC Future Challenges - PhysicsSpeaker: Mark Neubauer (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))
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LHC Future Challenges - Software/ComputingSpeaker: Ian Bird (CERN)
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Challenges for the Fermilab neutrino and muon programsSpeaker: Robert Kutschke (Femilab)
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Software plans and challenges for Linear ColliderSpeaker: Frank-Dieter Gaede (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and the HSFSpeaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Discussion
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10:30
Coffee Break
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Introduction SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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HEP experiments and software status in ChinaSpeaker: Prof. Wenjing Wu (Computer Center, IHEP, CAS)
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NSF ViewSpeaker: Bogdan Mihaila (National Science Foundation)
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DOE ViewSpeaker: Abid Patwa (U.S. Department of Energy)
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Other agencies view (survey)Speaker: Michel Jouvin (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
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12:30
Lunch (Group photo at 13:15)
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Computing Models, Facilities and Distributed Computing SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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CERN Cloud and Facilities OutlookSpeakers: Helge Meinhard (CERN), Ian Bird (CERN)
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The Fermilab HEPCloud, or How to add 240 TFlops in an hour or twoSpeaker: Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Technology overviewSpeaker: Helge Meinhard (CERN)
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15:00
Coffee Break
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Invited Talks and Contributed White Papers SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Citation and Reproducibility in SoftwareSpeaker: Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois)
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Survey of Contributed White PapersSpeakers: Ian Fisk (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Robert William Gardner Jr (University of Chicago (US))
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17:00
Reception SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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08:00
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08:00
Continental Breakfast SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Panel: Compute Architectures, platforms and software performance SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Data Analysis and Interpretation SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
Conveners: Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)), Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) -
Event Processing Frameworks SDSC Conference room 408
SDSC Conference room 408
Convener: James Kowalkowski (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) -
Simulation SDSC Synthesis Center
SDSC Synthesis Center
Conveners: John Harvey (CERN), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))-
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Goals of the SessionSpeakers: John Harvey (CERN), Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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ATLAS
Short presentation to introduce talking points on requirements, challenges, ideas
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CMS
Short presentation to introduce talking points on requirements, challenges, ideas
Speaker: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) -
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Intensity Frontier Experiments
Short presentation to introduce talking points on requirements, challenges, ideas
Speaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) -
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Geant4Speaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Discussion on WG charge, plan
Includes scope, challenges, questions and the plan to have in 6 months all the ingredients for the roadmap CWP
Speaker: All
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12:30
Lunch (SDSC Data Center Tour at 13:00) SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Role of ROOT in the medium/long term SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
Convener: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) -
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))-
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Introduction + Goals
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Comments/Needs for CMS event reconstructionSpeaker: Slava Krutelyov (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
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Comments/Needs for Atlas event reconstructionSpeaker: Graeme Stewart (University of Glasgow (GB))
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AIDA 2020 projectsSpeaker: Frank-Dieter Gaede (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
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Comments/Needs from LHCbSpeaker: Johannes Albrecht (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))
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Discussion of event processing charge
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Discussion of triggering wg charge
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Plan for WG goals, meetings and timeline
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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))
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08:00
Continental Breakfast SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Panel: Data Centres and Facilities Technologies (Clouds, Networks, Storage) SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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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)) -
Data Analytics and Machine Learning SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
Convener: Dr Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))-
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Introduction to ML WG and ChargeSpeaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Group formation
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Groups break-out: discussion and formulation of questions
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Short group presentations of formulated questions
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Group work on questions
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Visualization SDSC Conference room 408
SDSC Conference room 408
Convener: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))-
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Introduction + Goals + "Tools&Libraries Survey" summarySpeaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Current status / Input for discussion
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))-
a) Desktop - Fireworks (CMS)Speaker: Matevz Tadel (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
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b) Desktop - AliEVE (ALICE)Speaker: Jeremi Niedziela (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
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c) Desktop - Persint (ATLAS)Speaker: Laurent Chevalier (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))
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d) Desktop - Panoramix + LHCb Masterclasses (LHCb)Speaker: Ben Couturier (CERN)
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e) Desktop - VP1 (ATLAS)Speaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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f) Desktop - Atlantis (ATLAS) - TBC
Java
Speakers: Alex Christopher Martyniuk (University College London), Juergen Thomas (University of Birmingham (GB)), Nikos Konstantinidis (University College London (UK)) -
g) Web - iSpyWebGL (CMS)Speaker: Thomas Mc Cauley (University of Notre Dame (US))
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h) Web - Tracer (ATLAS)Speaker: Alexander Sharmazanashvili (Georgian Technical University (GE))
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i) Web - TADA (ATLAS)Speaker: Edward Moyse (University of Massachusetts (US))
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k) Virtual Reality - ATLASRift (ATLAS)Speaker: Ilija Vukotic (University of Chicago (US))
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l) Game engines - ALICE Total Event (ALICE)Speaker: Jeremi Niedziela (Warsaw University of Technology (PL))
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break
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Plan for WG goals, meetings and timeline
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Discussion on Visualization charge
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12:30
Lunch (SDSC Data Center Tour at 13:00) SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Panel: Applying Machine Learning in HEP SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Data Analytics and Machine Learning SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Groups break-out: discussions of questions/CWP sections
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Short group presentations of questions and discussions
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Group work on future roadmap
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Summary and next steps
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Data and Software Preservation SDSC Conference room 408
SDSC Conference room 408
Convener: Mike Hildreth (University of Notre Dame (US))-
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Discussion of Scope, ChargeSpeakers: 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 S3Speaker: Jim Pivarski (Princeton University)
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Analysis Preservation Discussion
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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)
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08:00
Continental Breakfast SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Summaries and Next Steps SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Future software challenges at Jefferson LabSpeaker: Amber Boehnlein
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Community Building for the Science Gateways Software InstituteSpeaker: Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
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Simulation WGSpeaker: Victor Daniel Elvira (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Data and Software Preservation WGSpeaker: Thomas Hacker (Purdue University (US))
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Data Analysis and Interpretation WGSpeaker: Torre Wenaus (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
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Event Processing Framework WGSpeaker: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Workflow and Resource Management WGSpeaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US))
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10:00
Coffee Break SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Summaries and Next Steps SDSC Auditorium
SDSC Auditorium
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Data Analytics and Machine Learning WGSpeaker: Sergei Gleyzer (University of Florida (US))
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Discussion on the Role of ROOT in the medium/long termSpeaker: Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Data Access and Management WGSpeakers: Andrew Bohdan Hanushevsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)), Bo Jayatilaka (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Visualization WGSpeaker: Riccardo Maria Bianchi (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Software Development, Deployment and Validation/Verification WGSpeaker: Benedikt Hegner (CERN)
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Triggering and ReconstructionSpeaker: David Lange (Princeton University (US))
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Next Steps
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08:00