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A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s

Computational Physics 2020-02-07 v5 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Particle physics has an ambitious and broad experimental programme for the coming decades. This programme requires large investments in detector hardware, either to build new facilities and experiments, or to upgrade existing ones. Similarly, it requires commensurate investment in the R&D of software to acquire, manage, process, and analyse the shear amounts of data to be recorded. In planning for the HL-LHC in particular, it is critical that all of the collaborating stakeholders agree on the software goals and priorities, and that the efforts complement each other. In this spirit, this white paper describes the R&D activities required to prepare for this software upgrade.

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@article{arxiv.1712.06982,
  title  = {A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s},
  author = {Johannes Albrecht and Antonio Augusto Alves and Guilherme Amadio and Giuseppe Andronico and Nguyen Anh-Ky and Laurent Aphecetche and John Apostolakis and Makoto Asai and Luca Atzori and Marian Babik and Giuseppe Bagliesi and Marilena Bandieramonte and Sunanda Banerjee and Martin Barisits and Lothar A. T. Bauerdick and Stefano Belforte and Douglas Benjamin and Catrin Bernius and Wahid Bhimji and Riccardo Maria Bianchi and Ian Bird and Catherine Biscarat and Jakob Blomer and Kenneth Bloom and Tommaso Boccali and Brian Bockelman and Tomasz Bold and Daniele Bonacorsi and Antonio Boveia and Concezio Bozzi and Marko Bracko and David Britton and Andy Buckley and Predrag Buncic and Paolo Calafiura and Simone Campana and Philippe Canal and Luca Canali and Gianpaolo Carlino and Nuno Castro and Marco Cattaneo and Gianluca Cerminara and Javier Cervantes Villanueva and Philip Chang and John Chapman and Gang Chen and Taylor Childers and Peter Clarke and Marco Clemencic and Eric Cogneras and Jeremy Coles and Ian Collier and David Colling and Gloria Corti and Gabriele Cosmo and Davide Costanzo and Ben Couturier and Kyle Cranmer and Jack Cranshaw and Leonardo Cristella and David Crooks and Sabine Crépé-Renaudin and Robert Currie and Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen and Kaushik De and Michel De Cian and Albert De Roeck and Antonio Delgado Peris and Frédéric Derue and Alessandro Di Girolamo and Salvatore Di Guida and Gancho Dimitrov and Caterina Doglioni and Andrea Dotti and Dirk Duellmann and Laurent Duflot and Dave Dykstra and Katarzyna Dziedziniewicz-Wojcik and Agnieszka Dziurda and Ulrik Egede and Peter Elmer and Johannes Elmsheuser and V. Daniel Elvira and Giulio Eulisse and Steven Farrell and Torben Ferber and Andrej Filipcic and Ian Fisk and Conor Fitzpatrick and José Flix and Andrea Formica and Alessandra Forti and Giovanni Franzoni and James Frost and Stu Fuess and Frank Gaede and Gerardo Ganis and Robert Gardner and Vincent Garonne and Andreas Gellrich and Krzysztof Genser and Simon George and Frank Geurts and Andrei Gheata and Mihaela Gheata and Francesco Giacomini and Stefano Giagu and Manuel Giffels and Douglas Gingrich and Maria Girone and Vladimir V. Gligorov and Ivan Glushkov and Wesley Gohn and Jose Benito Gonzalez Lopez and Isidro González Caballero and Juan R. González Fernández and Giacomo Govi and Claudio Grandi and Hadrien Grasland and Heather Gray and Lucia Grillo and Wen Guan and Oliver Gutsche and Vardan Gyurjyan and Andrew Hanushevsky and Farah Hariri and Thomas Hartmann and John Harvey and Thomas Hauth and Benedikt Hegner and Beate Heinemann and Lukas Heinrich and Andreas Heiss and José M. Hernández and Michael Hildreth and Mark Hodgkinson and Stefan Hoeche and Burt Holzman and Peter Hristov and Xingtao Huang and Vladimir N. Ivanchenko and Todor Ivanov and Jan Iven and Brij Jashal and Bodhitha Jayatilaka and Roger Jones and Michel Jouvin and Soon Yung Jun and Michael Kagan and Charles William Kalderon and Meghan Kane and Edward Karavakis and Daniel S. Katz and Dorian Kcira and Oliver Keeble and Borut Paul Kersevan and Michael Kirby and Alexei Klimentov and Markus Klute and Ilya Komarov and Dmitri Konstantinov and Patrick Koppenburg and Jim Kowalkowski and Luke Kreczko and Thomas Kuhr and Robert Kutschke and Valentin Kuznetsov and Walter Lampl and Eric Lancon and David Lange and Mario Lassnig and Paul Laycock and Charles Leggett and James Letts and Birgit Lewendel and Teng Li and Guilherme Lima and Jacob Linacre and Tomas Linden and Miron Livny and Giuseppe Lo Presti and Sebastian Lopienski and Peter Love and Adam Lyon and Nicolò Magini and Zachary L. Marshall and Edoardo Martelli and Stewart Martin-Haugh and Pere Mato and Kajari Mazumdar and Thomas McCauley and Josh McFayden and Shawn McKee and Andrew McNab and Rashid Mehdiyev and Helge Meinhard and Dario Menasce and Patricia Mendez Lorenzo and Alaettin Serhan Mete and Michele Michelotto and Jovan Mitrevski and Lorenzo Moneta and Ben Morgan and Richard Mount and Edward Moyse and Sean Murray and Armin Nairz and Mark S. Neubauer and Andrew Norman and Sérgio Novaes and Mihaly Novak and Arantza Oyanguren and Nurcan Ozturk and Andres Pacheco Pages and Michela Paganini and Jerome Pansanel and Vincent R. Pascuzzi and Glenn Patrick and Alex Pearce and Ben Pearson and Kevin Pedro and Gabriel Perdue and Antonio Perez-Calero Yzquierdo and Luca Perrozzi and Troels Petersen and Marko Petric and Andreas Petzold and Jónatan Piedra and Leo Piilonen and Danilo Piparo and Jim Pivarski and Witold Pokorski and Francesco Polci and Karolos Potamianos and Fernanda Psihas and Albert Puig Navarro and Günter Quast and Gerhard Raven and Jürgen Reuter and Alberto Ribon and Lorenzo Rinaldi and Martin Ritter and James Robinson and Eduardo Rodrigues and Stefan Roiser and David Rousseau and Gareth Roy and Grigori Rybkine and Andre Sailer and Tai Sakuma and Renato Santana and Andrea Sartirana and Heidi Schellman and Jaroslava Schovancová and Steven Schramm and Markus Schulz and Andrea Sciabà and Sally Seidel and Sezen Sekmen and Cedric Serfon and Horst Severini and Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy and Michael Seymour and Davide Sgalaberna and Illya Shapoval and Jamie Shiers and Jing-Ge Shiu and Hannah Short and Gian Piero Siroli and Sam Skipsey and Tim Smith and Scott Snyder and Michael D. Sokoloff and Panagiotis Spentzouris and Hartmut Stadie and Giordon Stark and Gordon Stewart and Graeme A. Stewart and Arturo Sánchez and Alberto Sánchez-Hernández and Anyes Taffard and Umberto Tamponi and Jeff Templon and Giacomo Tenaglia and Vakhtang Tsulaia and Christopher Tunnell and Eric Vaandering and Andrea Valassi and Sofia Vallecorsa and Liviu Valsan and Peter Van Gemmeren and Renaud Vernet and Brett Viren and Jean-Roch Vlimant and Christian Voss and Margaret Votava and Carl Vuosalo and Carlos Vázquez Sierra and Romain Wartel and Gordon T. Watts and Torre Wenaus and Sandro Wenzel and Mike Williams and Frank Winklmeier and Christoph Wissing and Frank Wuerthwein and Benjamin Wynne and Zhang Xiaomei and Wei Yang and Efe Yazgan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06982},
  year   = {2020}
}
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