Software and Computing (S&C) are essential to all High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments and many theoretical studies. The size and complexity of S&C are now commensurate with that of experimental instruments, playing a critical role in experimental design, data acquisition/instrumental control, reconstruction, and analysis. Furthermore, S&C often plays a leading role in driving the precision of theoretical calculations and simulations. Within this central role in HEP, S&C has been immensely successful over the last decade. This report looks forward to the next decade and beyond, in the context of the 2021 Particle Physics Community Planning Exercise ("Snowmass") organized by the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society.
@article{arxiv.2210.05822,
title = {The Future of High Energy Physics Software and Computing},
author = {V. Daniel Elvira and Steven Gottlieb and Oliver Gutsche and Benjamin Nachman and S. Bailey and W. Bhimji and P. Boyle and G. Cerati and M. Carrasco Kind and K. Cranmer and G. Davies and V. D. Elvira and R. Gardner and K. Heitmann and M. Hildreth and W. Hopkins and T. Humble and M. Lin and P. Onyisi and J. Qiang and K. Pedro and G. Perdue and A. Roberts and M. Savage and P. Shanahan and K. Terao and D. Whiteson and F. Wuerthwein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.05822},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Computational Frontier Report Contribution to Snowmass 2021; 41 pages, 1 figure. v2: missing ref and added missing topical group conveners. v3: fixed typos