ECHEP Trigger/reconstruction area meeting

Europe/London

ECHEP Trigger/Reco meeting 30/04/2020

 

General comments on themes/interests

 

  • General interest for utilising heterogenous computing platforms, e.g. HPCs with GPUs.
  • General Interest in co-processor (both GPU and FPGA) acceleration for realtime triggering/reconstruction
  • Interest in utilising abstraction layers (both for GPU and FPGA) to separate the code developer from the lower layer device deployment.
  • Interest in ML for reconstruction, either low level (LHCb track stub finding for FPGAs) or higher level (Dune).
  • Interest in code profiling and optimisation. Work already ongoing or completed in Trigger/Reco WG perhaps of interest to other WGs.
  • Potential industrial links for FPGAs (CMS,LHCb,?) (e.g. Xilinx,Intel)
  • Interest in exploring if LHCb GPU model (full sequence, multi-event framework) is applicable to GPDs.
  • Question on if specific reconstruction algorithms are too Experiment specific to be in scope for ECHEP.
  • Question on whether 4D (timing) aware reconstruction is in scope for ECHEP.

 

From these ideas we need to try and identify specific proposals for R&D areas, that in the context of ECHEP represent experiment neutral areas of study that are also genuinely useful and applicable to specific Experiments, at a later stage. We should start to collect these in

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lhC5xhiwG1lblhipW-0z3ukobzwCaMFmtJ0GY5mrPKA/edit?usp=sharing

 

There was also a suggestion that some of the ideas, e.g. code profiling and optimisation, usage of heterogeneous computing resources goes beyond the trigger/reconstruction WG, and as such it should be considered if a refactoring (rebranding) of the WP areas should be considered.

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    • 11:00 11:05
      Setup and Introduction 5m
      Speakers: Christopher Rob Jones (University of Cambridge (GB)), Stewart Martin-Haugh (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
    • 11:05 11:20
      LHCb RICH Run3 CPU Optimisations 15m
      Speaker: Christopher Rob Jones (University of Cambridge (GB))
    • 11:20 11:40
      LHCb HLT on GPU 20m
      Speaker: Daniel Hugo Campora Perez (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
    • 11:40 11:50
      GPUs for ATLAS 10m
      Speaker: Stewart Martin-Haugh (Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC (GB))
    • 11:50 12:00
      CMS work on accelerators 10m
      Speakers: Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB)), Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB)), Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous (RAL)
    • 12:00 12:10
      HLS on FPGAs (ATLAS) 10m
      Speaker: Benjamin Philip Kerridge (University of Warwick (GB))
    • 12:10 12:30
      DUNE Reconstruction 20m
      Speakers: Andrew Chappell (University of Warwick), Andy Chappell
    • 12:30 12:40
      Ideas Towards a Tracking Algorithm with Timing 10m
      Speaker: Dr Manuel Tobias Schiller (University of Glasgow (GB))
    • 12:40 13:00
      Discussion 20m