HSF Weekly Meeting #165, 9 May, 2019
Present/Contributors: Graeme Stewart, Tommaso Boccali, Marco Clemencic, Davide Costanzo, Serhan Mete, Andrea Valassi, Guilherme Amadio, Michel Jouvin, Heather Gray, Daniel Elvira, Ben Morgan, Agnieszka Dziurda
News, general matters
- European Strategy Update symposium in
Granada next week:
- There is a general introduction to computing on Monday (Simone).
- Software and Computing Parallel session Wednesday AM, covering current status and R&D topics for the future.
- Graeme’s Software R&D has much HSF inspiration in it, draft available and comments welcome (N.B. it is driven a lot by the set of submissions to the process).
- Future Collider Software Workshop is being organised in Bologna,
12-13 June:
- https://agenda.infn.it/event/19047/.
- This is aiming at reviewing and finding harmony between different software packages and stacks for future experiments.
- AIDA++:
- A follow-up project to AIDA2020 is planned, with an EoI call expected soon.
- The software group of AIDA2020 is planning a f2f meeting at
CERN 17-18 June to discuss tasks that might form part of the
project.
- Contact Witek Pokorski and Frank Gaede for more details.
- UK STFC Opportunities Call:
- https://stfc.ukri.org/funding/research-grants/funding-opportunities/2019-opportunities-call/.
- For STFC PPAN only, but encompasses wide area and mentions computing, so of potential interest to UK HSF people.
Google Summer of Code 2019
- 34 slots granted, +5 slots cf. 2018. 33 used.
- There is a mentors meeting at 17h today.
- Accessing CERN gitlab for external people is a problem.
- It’s a pain to register people so they can comment, submit MRs, etc. (N.B. public projects can be viewed in all cases, for our open source code).
- CERN IT had recommended using GitHub in this case; to use CERN resources the policy is users have to register properly.
Activity and Working Group Updates
Data Analysis
- Meeting last week, JLab summary:
- Meeting right now, analysis level metadata:
Detector Simulation
- Meeting yesterday on simulation on accelerators:
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/816484/
- Two very interesting talks and lots of discussions:
- Philippe Canal on the Geant Exascale Pilot Project.
- Zhihua Dong on the ATLAS FastCaloSim on GPUs Project.
- Perhaps we should consider a follow up session on the same topic in the future as we missed ALICE and LHCb this time.
- Meeting in June:
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/816485/
- Please send us suggestions for talks and speakers!
Reconstruction and Software Triggers
- ATLAS/CMS cross-talks:
- 22nd May, 4pm.
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/815233/
- Speakers confirmed: Jiri Masik (ATLAS), Silvio Donato (CMS)
- Plan to have meeting on 5th June:
- Topic: Algorithms and data structures to efficiently exploit many-core architectures - one of the topics described in CWP.
- Two contributions from LHCb are confirmed.
Event Generators
- Next meeting today, https://indico.cern.ch/event/813620/.
- Following up on ATLAS/CMS comparison as discussed at the workshop.
- CHEP abstract planned.
- Will follow up on GPUs in a later meeting.
Packaging
- Next meeting 29 May:
- https://indico.cern.ch/event/819329/
- Let Graeme and Ben know of topics (FNAL Spack MVP and Fireworks on Conda planned).
- CHEP abstract planned.
Frameworks
- Mandate for this
group
has been drafted.
- We now invite comments on that.
- And we would like to receive nominations for convenors.
- Send to HSF Coordination or to Graeme and Liz directly.
Workshops
Pre-CHEP (2-3 November)
- Short meeting this week. Everyone seems to be happy with the idea
of an analysis focused workshop.
- Covering facilities to code and analysis interfaces.
- Next meeting this month, include the DAWG and DOMA convenors and get a draft agenda together.
AOB
- Simulation developers asked for an HSF convened meeting to present
the results of the GeantV prototype and to discuss plans for the
future.
- Date now settled, 15th October, 14-18h (avoid ATLAS Week!).
- CERN have added some Nvidia GPUs to lxbatch. If you want to use them add “request_GPUs = 1” to your Condor submit script.
- RSE 2018 Conference,
https://rse.ac.uk/conf2019/.
- We did not resubmit the abstracts from last year (deadline was May 7), it would still be good if someone attends, also to understand why our previous submissions had been rejected. We know that Stefan Roiser did submit an abstract on a software institute.