A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s
In 2017 the HEP Software Foundation, charged by the WLCG, produced a roadmap white paper on the software and computing challenges that will be faced during the next decade. This has been published in the journal Computing and Software for Big Science.
Citation
A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s, The HEP Software Foundation, Albrecht, J. et al., Comput Softw Big Sci (2019) 3, 7 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41781-018-0018-8.
We recommend you download the citation files (BibTeX and others) for the paper from the journal website.
The roadmap is also available as arXiv:1712.06982.
Community White Paper Reports
The roadmap summarised reports from fourteen working groups who studied the challenges in their sub-domains. All of the reports produced during the Community White Paper process are listed below. Working groups are in the process of finalising and uploading their work to arXiv.
| Paper | Report Number | Link |
|---|---|---|
| CWP Roadmap | HSF-CWP-2017-01 | arXiv |
| Careers & Training | HSF-CWP-2017-02 | arXiv |
| Conditions Data | HSF-CWP-2017-03 | arXiv |
| Data Organisation, Management and Access | HSF-CWP-2017-04 | arXiv |
| Data Analysis and Interpretation | HSF-CWP-2017-05 | arXiv |
| Data and Software Preservation | HSF-CWP-2017-06 | arXiv |
| Detector Simulation | HSF-CWP-2017-07 | arXiv |
| Event/Data Processing Frameworks | HSF-CWP-2017-08 | arXiv |
| Facilities and Distributed Computing | HSF-CWP-2017-09 | Google Doc |
| Machine Learning | HSF-CWP-2017-10 | arXiv |
| Physics Generators | - | No separate paper, see CWP Roadmap, section 3.1 |
| Security | - | No separate paper, see CWP Roadmap, section 3.13 |
| Software Development, Deployment and Validation | HSF-CWP-2017-13 | arXiv |
| Software Trigger and Event Reconstruction | HSF-CWP-2017-14 | arXiv - Executive Summary; arXiv - full document |
| Visualisation | HSF-CWP-2017-15 | arXiv |
Talks
This is a list of talks about the CWP Roadmap that were given by various HSF members:
- 2018-02-23 CWP Lessons and Future Work at 4th CERN Scientific Computing Forum by Michel Jouvin
- 2018-01-10 Presentation at the January 2018 GDB by Graeme Stewart.
- 2017-01-05 Talk at the 2018 Spåtlid Nordic Particle Physics Meeting in Skeikampen, Norway by Graeme Stewart (covers HEP software and computing challenges in general, as well as the CWP).
- 2017-11-28 Presentation at the 11th Terascale Alliance Workshop by Benedikt Hegner.
- 2017-10-29 Presentation on the CWP Roadmap at the 3rd CERN Scientific Computing Forum by Graeme Stewart.
History
A historical page is maintained that describes in more detail the process that the community took to arrive at the final outcome.