HL-LHC Computing Review: Common Tools and Community Software
Abstract
Common and community software packages, such as ROOT, Geant4 and event generators have been a key part of the LHC's success so far and continued development and optimisation will be critical in the future. The challenges are driven by an ambitious physics programme, notably the LHC accelerator upgrade to high-luminosity, HL-LHC, and the corresponding detector upgrades of ATLAS and CMS. In this document we address the issues for software that is used in multiple experiments (usually even more widely than ATLAS and CMS) and maintained by teams of developers who are either not linked to a particular experiment or who contribute to common software within the context of their experiment activity. We also give space to general considerations for future software and projects that tackle upcoming challenges, no matter who writes it, which is an area where community convergence on best practice is extremely useful.
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@article{arxiv.2008.13636,
title = {HL-LHC Computing Review: Common Tools and Community Software},
author = {HEP Software Foundation and : and Thea Aarrestad and Simone Amoroso and Markus Julian Atkinson and Joshua Bendavid and Tommaso Boccali and Andrea Bocci and Andy Buckley and Matteo Cacciari and Paolo Calafiura and Philippe Canal and Federico Carminati and Taylor Childers and Vitaliano Ciulli and Gloria Corti and Davide Costanzo and Justin Gage Dezoort and Caterina Doglioni and Javier Mauricio Duarte and Agnieszka Dziurda and Peter Elmer and Markus Elsing and V. Daniel Elvira and Giulio Eulisse and Javier Fernandez Menendez and Conor Fitzpatrick and Rikkert Frederix and Stefano Frixione and Krzysztof L Genser and Andrei Gheata and Francesco Giuli and Vladimir V. Gligorov and Hadrien Benjamin Grasland and Heather Gray and Lindsey Gray and Alexander Grohsjean and Christian Gütschow and Stephan Hageboeck and Philip Coleman Harris and Benedikt Hegner and Lukas Heinrich and Burt Holzman and Walter Hopkins and Shih-Chieh Hsu and Stefan Höche and Philip James Ilten and Vladimir Ivantchenko and Chris Jones and Michel Jouvin and Teng Jian Khoo and Ivan Kisel and Kyle Knoepfel and Dmitri Konstantinov and Attila Krasznahorkay and Frank Krauss and Benjamin Edward Krikler and David Lange and Paul Laycock and Qiang Li and Kilian Lieret and Miaoyuan Liu and Vladimir Loncar and Leif Lönnblad and Fabio Maltoni and Michelangelo Mangano and Zachary Louis Marshall and Pere Mato and Olivier Mattelaer and Joshua Angus McFayden and Samuel Meehan and Alaettin Serhan Mete and Ben Morgan and Stephen Mrenna and Servesh Muralidharan and Ben Nachman and Mark S. Neubauer and Tobias Neumann and Jennifer Ngadiuba and Isobel Ojalvo and Kevin Pedro and Maurizio Perini and Danilo Piparo and Jim Pivarski and Simon Plätzer and Witold Pokorski and Adrian Alan Pol and Stefan Prestel and Alberto Ribon and Martin Ritter and Andrea Rizzi and Eduardo Rodrigues and Stefan Roiser and Holger Schulz and Markus Schulz and Marek Schönherr and Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy and Frank Siegert and Andrzej Siódmok and Graeme A Stewart and Malik Sudhir and Sioni Paris Summers and Savannah Jennifer Thais and Nhan Viet Tran and Andrea Valassi and Marc Verderi and Dorothea Vom Bruch and Gordon T. Watts and Torre Wenaus and Efe Yazgan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.13636},
year = {2020}
}
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40 pages contribution to Snowmass 2021