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HSF Weekly Meeting #83, March 2, 2017

Present: Michel Jouvin, Pere Mato, Benedikt Hegner, Ian Bird, Patricia Mendez, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Torre Wenaus, Peter Elmer, Riccardo Bianchi, David Lange, Daniel Elvira

News, general matters

• None today

Current Topics

CWP

• Top level information page (with current known planned workshops) is: http://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/activities/cwp.html

• Since last week the Visualization WG workshop (CERN and Vidyo) has been added, with Indico page

• Additional information on the WGs is being maintained (and updated in fits and starts) on: http://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/cwp/cwp-working-groups.html

• There were meetings this past week of the Simulation, Analysis Tools and Interpretation WGs, plus an open CMS meeting on the computing model, facilities and distributed computing topic

• Daniel - Simulation meeting - focused on computing performance. All LHC experiments presented, also neutrino people. CMS and ATLAS said they would prepare a proposal for simu performance evaluation and monitoring, variables we want to monitor. Discussions underway, proposal expected soon. Next meeting on March 27 will focus on fast simulation.

• Ric - Visualization workshop: https://indico.cern.ch/event/617054/. We’re building the agenda. Workshop sessions will be in the late afternoon (~17:00-20:00) so people can connect even from the Pacific Coast time zone (UCSD CMS group).

• Software Trigger and Event Reconstruction WG session at CTD/WIT will be next week, https://indico.cern.ch/event/614111/

• Ian - whiteboard googledoc to collect ideas is accumulating contributions with others promised. Next make an outline for the white paper chapter/section, at a high level, then start organizing ideas within that outline. Should materialize in the next few days.

• CWP discussion with FNAL/SCD (at FNAL) will happen on 23 March

• Looking for progress in other WGs, e.g. data access/management. Andy says something will be coming there.

  • Michel - there is a WLCG Data Steering Group with a meeting last week. All the members have been encouraged to participate actively in the CWP. A pre-GDB is planned beginning of May on these issues with CWP topics (relevant to WLCG) probably at the core of the agenda.

HEP analysis ecosystem workshop

• http://indico.cern.ch/event/613842/

• NIKHEF contact is iterating with venues, three possible at reasonable prices, finalizing numbers in order to choose

• Target: announcement draft ready next week

  • Need to decide location before!

  • Have a blocked out agenda by then

    • coffee at 10:30 R1 tomorrow Friday, all welcome.

Activity updates

• Liz - Packaging - discussed with FNAL people, planning a meeting in a couple weeks, March 15 5-6pm.

• IEEE NSS: looks more as a training that a meta-training workshop. Not very much attractive then (not necessarily the good place for this).

• Licensing meeting - will put out a summary soon. Also need to follow-up with Fastjet developers about Fastjet GPL licensing: need to organize a F2F meeting/chat with them (unfortunately nor Liz neither Graeme will be in Paris next week for the Connecting the Dots workshop).

AOB

• meeting next week

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