diff --git a/organization/_posts/2018-02-08-startup.md b/organization/_posts/2018-02-08-startup.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e2b170300 --- /dev/null +++ b/organization/_posts/2018-02-08-startup.md @@ -0,0 +1,233 @@ +--- +title: "HSF Weekly Meeting #125, 8 February, 2018" +layout: default +--- + +# {{page.title}} + +#### *Present/Contributors*: Graeme Stewart, Giulio Eulisse, Eduardo Rodrigues, Mike Sokoloff, Mike Hildreth, Benedikt Hegner, Helge Meinhard, Daniel Elvira, David Crooks, Jim Pivarski, Torre Wenaus, Riccardo Maria Bianchi, Liz Sexton-Kennedy, Marco Clemencic, Eric Lancon, Paolo Calafiura, David Lange, Frunk Wuerthwein, Mohammad Al-Turany, Oli Gutsche, Eric Lançon, Alessandra Doria + +News, general matters +===================== + +- Contacted by the organiser (promoter?) of the [FOSS + Backstage](https://foss-backstage.de/) conference. + - "The conference on everything related to governance, + collaboration, legal and economics within the scope of FOSS". + - Not immediately clear if this would be actually interesting for + us, although the related [Berlin + Buzzwords](https://berlinbuzzwords.de/18/about) + event does seem well established (open source big data + conference). + - Apache Foundation are an event partner (does this make it more + real?). + - Call for papers until 18th February. + - Graeme will follow up. + +HSF/WLCG Workshop +================= + +- ### General points + - After discussion we swapped Security and Performance Costs WG + sessions on Wednesday, adding an extra Performance and Costs + hands-on session as well. + - Barring any crises, agenda is final. + - We will be able to have a contribution from SKA on Thursday + morning, hopefully in person. This will eat into the closing + plenary a bit, but we feel it's a valuable contribution to + include. + - 87 registered - this is ok, not great. + - Can convenors and HSF advocates invite people to come? + Individual invitations take time, but have a much higher + success rate than blanket emails. + - Early registration closes on 16th February. + - Mike S - could use some S2I2 conceptualisation funds to help + people from the US to come for HSF pieces: younger + participants or session convenors; labs included. + - Sponsor contributions to the workshop. + - Rittal sent a title and a short abstract: + - STATE-OF-THE-ART PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HPC: + Enabling HPC through a modular physical infrastructure + is a must to ensure the best performance and an + effective TCO. Minimized operative costs, and a + scalable investment are key success factors in + implementing HPC efficient platforms. + - Still waiting for the abstract from Dell/Intel, they said we + will receive it tomorrow. + - We don't know yet the names of the presenters. + - Will the sponsor presentations be included in the Technology + Watch session? A. Yes. +- ### Monday + - Opening Plenary + - In good shape - all talks planned. + - Technology Watch + - Planned the session now (for 90 minutes, 30 goes to vendors). + - HEP Use Cases + - List of topics and speakers is created - will contact people + in the next week. +- ### Tuesday + - Data Management/Lakes + - Session is now planned in Indico. + - Frameworks and Infrastructure + - Planning on three 30' talks: broadly speaking dedicated to + online aspects (including GPU/coprocessor management), + offline aspects (including thread/process/node + management), and HPC parallelization, trying to cover + multiple experiments/frameworks. + - Boundaries with WMS and Fwk Technical to be discussed. + - Training (Parallel) + - No news. + - DPHEP (Parallel) + - Mike H and Jamie S did some planning on the session: + Certification, CWP goals, brainstorming. + - Workload Management (Parallel) + - Four topics added to the agenda, not yet mapped to (\~4 + or 5) talks. More info in [a googledoc linked from the + agenda](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14_VqEx5mWZrzGxKPZZWoOBe0ml0BduuFGEkQgG0FbFM/edit?usp=sharing). + - Analysis Facilities and Use Cases + - Agenda finalised and skeleton up online. + - Potential speakers all contacted, 2/5 confirmed. +- ### Wednesday + - Programming for Concurrency and Co-Processors + - Still seeking co-convenor. + - Areas: + - Trigger + - GeantV + - Parallel tracking + - Parallel processing models - developer of Dask from + anaconda (outwith HEP) + - We discussed this proposal and it was well received. + - Visualisation (Parallel) + - Riccardo & Tom started to gather proposals and filling the + agenda. + - A potential talk from an outside-of-HEP institute: + University of Ljubljana Computing Science department. + - Simulation + - Two sessions: faster simulation and improving physics. + - Have a list of speakers and contributions prepared. + - Some speakers will be remote, need a good vidyo setup. + - Can put these into the agenda now - Andrea or Daniel will + do it. + - Security (Parallel) + - Second convenor from CMS? Brian Bockelman still might help + out. + - Topics, for further drafting and sorting into talks: + - Trust and Policies + - GDPR + - Authentication and Authorisation + - Authorisation WG status/summary + - Operational Security + - Requirements for operational security in the future + - Threat Intelligence + - Discussion + - Operational security technology requirements (SOC WG + status & summary) + - Traceability + - Containers/Singularity + - IPv6 + - Performance and Cost Modeling (Parallel) + - Progress in planning in the WG meetings. + - Technical Discussion on Frameworks (Parallel) + - Need to clarify which technical aspects of frameworks should + be discussed. + - In the plenary want to tackle the boundary between nodes and + processing framework. + - Technical session would try to decompose where we are on + frameworks and address the CWP roadmap goals. + - E.g., is TBB still an optimal choice? + - What is a good cadence for updating framework + components? + - Software Development (Parallel) + - Martin still in Japan. Giulio starting to think about + possible discussion topics: + - Project Incubation: + - Does the Incubator model of Apache make sense for + HSF? + - As a project leaders what would make me move to HSF? + - As a HSF reviewers what are the minimum requirement + for incubating a project? + - Graeme: can HSF provide a source of technical knowledge (design, implementation). + - Project discussions: + - Packaging requirements, what is missing? How do we + scale to multiple project which have completely + different timescales and requirements in terms of + software stacks? How do we integrate into + mainstream? + - Static analysers. All the LHC experiments / projects + use some form of static analysers, mostly based on + clang. How do we contribute back all those efforts + so that everyone can profit from that? + - Profilers. How do we share and compare profile data + between different tools and experiments? + - GVFS: git has become the defacto standard VCS in HEP + and in the world. Is GVFS the next big revolution + in the way we work? If yes, what are the + implications / possibilities? + - Becoming mainstream: + - What are the OpenSource conferences / workshops we + should try to have a more "active" presence? + - Python ones? + - FOSDEM? + - Geek watch: how do we share information about the + latests tools and practices? Mailing list? +- Thursday + - Closing Plenary + - Anticipate SKA contribution here: 20-30 minutes. + +CWP +=== + +- ### General Matters and Roadmap + - arXiv update a little delayed - announcement was late and + waiting for CMS resource plots with the correct axes labels + (MHS06s -> THS06s) + - We now have all the pieces though, so this can be done + \~now. + - Added 10 new signatures since last week. + - Computing and Software for Big Science - discussed with Markus + Elsing. He did not think it would be a problem to update the + signatures after submission, but is confirming with other + editors and Springer. + - The lead time for publication is >8 weeks, so we would be + ok to take signatures until the Naples workshop. +- ### Publication strategy for Individual WG Papers + - #### Simulation + - There is a final version of the long note; circulating + amongst the authors and calling for supporters. + +PyHEP Workshop +============== + +- Good progress with agenda and finding speakers. +- Sponsorship from PSF awaiting news (expect anytime within the next 2 + weeks). + +Activity updates +================ + +Licensing +--------- +- No news. + +Training +-------- +- Pete Elmer is putting together an NSF proposal that might find some + HEP community training under the HSF umbrella. + - Will be useful to discuss this further in Naples. + +Packaging +--------- +- Meeting 7 Feb: + [https://indico.cern.ch/event/700265/](https://indico.cern.ch/event/700265/) + - Homing in on Use Cases Document. + - Heard about SpackDev plans. + - Report on use of Spack for FCC. + - Further discussion in the next meeting +- Next meeting 21 Feb: + [https://indico.cern.ch/event/704402/](https://indico.cern.ch/event/704402/) + +GSoC +---- +- Proposals in, waiting for Google to confirm CERN-HSF as an organisation + in the GSoC 2018 programme, which should happen by Feb. 12th. +