diff --git a/organization/_posts/2025/2025-10-09-coordination.md b/organization/_posts/2025/2025-10-09-coordination.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aeda8f9b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/organization/_posts/2025/2025-10-09-coordination.md @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +--- +title: "HSF Coordination Meeting #295, 9 October 2025" +layout: plain_toc +--- + +## Attending + +Present/Contributing: Eduardo Rodrigues, Tommaso Lari, Ianna Osborne, Graeme Stewart, Claire Antel, Inês Ochoa, Maarten van Veghel, Liz Sexon-Kennedy, Luke Kreczko + +Apologies/Contributing: Michel Villanueva + +## News, general matters, announcements + +### HSF Seminar Series and Compute Accelerator Forum + +Planned HSF seminars: +- 29th Oct: _European Strategy Report: Inputs, Impressions, Venice Open Symposium Highlights_ +- Dec 3rd: _HS3_, TBC + +Others in the works: +- Seminar on OpenData organised by Trig & Reco SW AA +- 2nd in series on AI-assisted SW tools organised by software tools & packaging +- Seminar from creator of mp-units (supports units and constants in C++, see AOB) - still to be arranged + +(Thanks to the activity groups for coming to us with seminar ideas and speakers!) + +HSF seminar conveners are reachable at . + +Compute & Accelerator forums: +- We had a meeting on [Error estimation for floating point operations via automatic differentiation](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1472686/) just yesterday +- 12 Nov: [A Formal but Pragmatic Foundation for General-Purpose Operating Systems](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1472688/) + +Please send your suggestions for next seminars. + +### Steering Group + +The first meeting post Summer took place last week. See [the minutes](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/organization/2025/10/02/steering.html). + +We discussed in particular: +- The HSF budget we collect from our participation in the GSoC programme. This can be used for HSF related activities. +- Idea to create a community repository for bibliographic citations. In the works. It will soon be advertised. +- Status of the affiliation programme. See item below for details. + +### HSF Affiliated Projects and Software + +Several projects have been contacted after the Summer and evaluations are either in discussion or will happen soon. + +Check out [here](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/projects/projects.html) for the list of affiliated projects. + +## Activities Updates + +### Software Training + +Oct. 6: a Hackathon on the SSH shell course material tool place. + +#### Ideas for upcoming trainings: +- Organize the basic training twice a year: once online and once in-person, charging a small fee. The one in-person could be scheduled alongside other in-person events (for instance, summer schools) + - Move to intermediate and advanced trainings, and keeping the basic material available in the Training Center for self-study + +#### Future Events: +- [13th HEP C++ Course and hands-on training - Advanced C++](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1549051/overview), 27-31 Oct, registration open, places for in person attendance available +- Blueprint Meeting on AI - TBD + - Survey to collect comments, and then organize a dedicated session with different collaborations to define a roadmap + +### Event generators + +- A 2-day workshop from the LHC Monte Carlo WG is taking place as we speak, Oct. 8-9: . + - The HSF was invited to present on "HSF: Vision and Role in MC Toolchain Sustainability" at the session "Sustainability of the MC toolchain". Sapta presented for us. + +### Detector Simulation + +The next G4 Technical forum will be held on Oct. 23. + +### Reconstruction and Software Triggers +- Ongoing work to organize an HSF seminar on open data sets for AI/ML training purposes. We have one on LHC Open data and one on foundation models for NPP dataset. No confirmation yet from one on foundation models (from CMS colleagues); maybe alternatively one related to ML-based tracking. + +### PyHEP + +- [PyHEP 2025 Users Workshop](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1566263/): hybrid event at CERN on Oct. 27 - 30. Call for abstracts is open up to Oct. 13 23:59. + - Over 150 people registered + - 4 half days + - Over 20 abstracts: ML, AD, analysis tools, etc. + - Wednesday at 16:30 - a tutorial by Ashwin Srinath from Nvidia "Pythonic GPU Parallelism for HEP with cuda-cccl" + - Possibly an awkward package hackathon on Thursday (morning session) + +### JuliaHEP + +- We will start soon organising the JuliaHEP 2026 Workshop! It will probably be in Germany, so that it takes advantage of JuliaCon 2026 in Mainz. + + +## AOB + +### Physical Constants / HEPdata Library + +Reminder: we are proposing a C++ header-only library that defines physical constants and some salient HEPdata in a lightweight, easy-to-use manner. Also taking into account versioning. + +John Chapman and Graeme Stewart picked this up again last week. We have asked for *mp-units* to be added to the LCG builds. Then we would like to add a simple header with common HEP constants and gradually migrate towards an integrated solution with mp-units. + +Finally, we would like to automate the generation of constant files directly from PDG and CODATA (this bit can be language neutral). + +*Additional help/contributions welcome!* + +### Next Meeting + +The next coordination meeting will be October 23rd, . + +### Chair This Meeting 👇 + +Please [sign up](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z1Z4payCpieOLiVFcC6y9j-KCj71u6xX232LHUgIHfI/edit) for chairing a future coordination meeting. (There is even a [HOWTO guide](https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/organization/running-meetings.html)).