diff --git a/organization/_posts/2024/2024-10-10-coordination.md b/organization/_posts/2024/2024-10-10-coordination.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ff6f4b2c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/organization/_posts/2024/2024-10-10-coordination.md @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +--- +title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #276, 10 October 2024" +layout: plain_toc +--- + +## Attending + +Present/Contributing: Graeme Stewart, Michel Jouvin, Patrick Gartung, Claire Antel, Stefan Roiser, Andrea Valassi, Alex Moreno, Daniel Elvira, Eduardo Rodrigues, Tommaso Lari, Patrick Gartung, Stephen Mrenna + +Apologies/Contributing: + +## News, general matters, announcements + +### European Strategy Update (ESPPU) + +Discussion on HSF inputs. + +See [slides](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1355758/contributions/5708314/attachments/2945044/5175250/HSF%20Inputs%20from%20European%20Strategy%20Update.pdf) attached to the agenda. + +As said in previous meetings, HSF input to ESPPU is important +* Input to last ESPPU was based on CWP: good time for CWP update +* To reflect the community view, the key actors must be the HSF activities (and thus the activity coordinators!) +* Deadline is tight: end of March 2025. Must start immediately our work to prepare the document that we'll submit. Timeline proposal: + * Now -> beginning of January: activity meetings to get the community feedback on the topic identified + * January : writing of chapter drafts + * Feb 1-15: assembling of chapters, first paper draft + * Feb 15 - March 1 : draft circulation and finalization + * March: community endorsement (something like what we did for the CWP, asking for people to sign it) + +- Claire - meetings organised by activity areas? + - Yes, we have to delegate this down to the activity area coordinators +- Tommaso - are these meetings in addition to the seminar serie? + - Yes, the work required doesn't fill well into the seminars +- Alex, yes the training WG can contribute +- Eduardo, this would be a much shorter paper +- Michel, not starting from zero, we have a lot of experience already and can do this on a much shorter timescale (original CWP was ~18 months) +- Patrick - will try to schedule a mini-workshop to see where we are with the development tools and prepare input to the document + - Graeme: great idea, probably focus on-line, 1/2 day, meetings +- We shall do "checkpoints" with the groups in these coordination meetings (don't need extra ones!) +- Experiments are preparing their inputs, do we take these into account? + - Ideally yes, as people are in the experiments we hope this is not a problem +- Stephen M. (generators): ok with the proposal + +Action: Michel/Graeme will contact the relevant activities with the plan and ask them to get started + +Lenght? + +- 1 page too short +- 10 pages too much +- Probably the target is 3-5 pages per activity + +Mainly software matters, but sociological risks should all be covered. + +### HSF Seminar Series + +The seminar series is up and running: + +- [Julia in high-energy physics: a paradigm shift or just another tool?](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1452314/), Uwe Acosta +- [Julia as a Statically-Compiled Language](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1462252/), Jeff Bezanson + +We would now like to advance the planning for the next events. Scheduled dates would be: + +- 30 October (it's quite soon...) +- 27 November: Generators? + - Stephen M. checks with the people involved +- 29 January +- 26 February + +Please coordinate with Michel and Benedikt! + +## Steering Group News + +### Advisory Group + +The [Advisory Group mandate](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/organization/advisory-group.html) is published. Invitations have been sent to the large HEP experiments, WLCG and the theory community (MCnet). + +### HSF Affiliated Projects and Software + +The description of [HSF Affiliated Projects and Software](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/projects/affiliated.html) is now on the website. It motivates the activity and sets out some of the parameters for things like reviews, defining requirements and providing reference implementations. + +The actual [guidelines for projects](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/projects/guidelines.html) are on a separate page. + +- Do people know of projects (theirs or others) who would like to trial the process of becoming an affiliate? + +## Activity Updates + +### Data Analysis + +- Next meeting on Oct 28: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1461088/ + - focused on Scipp (https://scipp.github.io/) and ragged data. + - Room also booked at CERN + - email to DAWG sent yesterday (feel free to advertise to interested communities!). + +### Software Training + +#### Last Events + +- [11th HEP C++ Course and Hands-on Training, Advanced C++](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1430163/) 30 September - 4 October (Mo, We, Fr). + - Attendance at CERN 18/25. + - Remote attendance 35. + +#### Next Events +- [HSF Training Pre-CHEP Workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1410343/) - October 19-20. + - Saturday afternoon, from 14:00 to 18:20 CET + - Sunday morning, from 9:00 to 12:45 CET + - We will have talks from HSF-India, LHCb, EVERSE, DUNE, ErUM-Data-Hub, ATLAS, LPC HATS, CoDaS-HEP, and ICFA + - Two Working Sessions + - 57 registrants + + +### Software Tools and Packaging + +Conveners met last week Friday. Discussed putting together a mini-workshop to review the build tools used by the CERN and Fermilab experiments. + +### Detector Simulation + +Geant4 Collaboration meeting is ongoing this week in Catania; an open session dedicated to user presentations took place today + +### Reconstruction and Software Trigger + +- Will probably be able to finalise seminar speakers on 4D tracking for a January or February HSF seminar slot. + +### PyHEP + +The report of the PyHEP.dev 2024 workshop (Aachen, 26 Aug - 30 Aug) is [published on the ArXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02112). It is a community-driven document, as nearly all participants contributed to the paper. + +### Physics Generators + +*GPUs and Generators*, will try to arrange something for the HSF Seminar series. + +### JuliaHEP + +We had the [JuliaHEP 2024 Workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/e/juliahep2024) last week. + +- Big success, about 40 people attended in-person and up to 30 more on Zoom + - Excellent atmosphere and positive spirit +- Had three keynotes, the two HSF Seminars (see above) and a talk from Tim Besard from JuliaHub on [Introduction to GPU Programming (in Julia)](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1410341/contributions/6148708/) (which is also posted to YouTube) +- Overall about 20 talks from HEP, astroparticle and industry (ASML) +- Hackathon sessions involved a lot of discussions on Lorentz vectors and particle interfaces, as well as ROOT building/bindings and possible training material +- Discussion of the most important next topics for [JuliaHEP](https://notes.desy.de/rp4Rg15ySZqlhCEzFGrK2Q?view) was had at the end of the workshop + +### Compute and Accelerator Forum + +- Meeting yesterday (9 October) on [RISC-V extended precision accelerators](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1329694/) from CEA colleagues Eric Guthmuller and Jérôme Fereyre + - Slides and video are available +- Next meeting 13 November, [Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Cluster](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1329695/) by Gustavo Alonso (ETHZ) + + +--- + +## AOB + +### Next Meeting + +Next meeting will be [7 November](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1355760/). +* The 24 October meeting is cancelled as this is the week of CHEP. + +Reminder: please [sign up](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z1Z4payCpieOLiVFcC6y9j-KCj71u6xX232LHUgIHfI/edit) for chairing this or one of the future coordination meetings - we need volunteers from now until the end of the year! +