Advanced software plays a fundamental role for large scientific projects - from designing experimental instruments to acquiring, reducing, and analyzing the resulting data.
The primary goal of the S2I2-HEP conceptualization project is to prepare a strategic plan for a potential NSF Scientific Software Innovation Institute (S2I2) to develop software for experiments taking data in the "High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider" (HL-LHC) era in the 2020s. In addition, we are working with the HEP Software Foundation to prepare a larger HEP Community White Paper (CWP) describing a global roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s. Building a US and global community to accomplish this R&D roadmap is an essential element. To achieve these goals we are organizing a number of workshops during 2017.
Update 20 Mar 2019 - The Community White Paper has now been published as "A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s" in the journal "Computing and Software for Big Science".
Update 4 Sep 2018 - The NSF today launched the "Institute for Research and Innovation in Software in High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP)". IRIS-HEP will implement the strategic plan developed by the S2I2-HEP project. More information can be found on the IRIS-HEP website.
Update 18 Dec 2017 - The S2I2-HEP Strategic Plan and Community White Paper documents are now available:
- Strategic Plan for a Scientific Software Innovation Institute (S2I2) for High Energy Physics - arXiv 1712.06592
- A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s (Community White Paper) - arXiv 1712.06982
Upcoming Events:
No upcoming events are currently planned
Past Events:
- 23-25 Oct, 2019 - A Coordinated Ecosystem for HL-LHC Computing R&D
- Venue TBD, Washington DC area
- Indico page
- 26-27 Apr, 2018 - Reconstruction, Trigger, and Machine Learning for the HL-LHC
- 26-29 Mar, 2018 - Joint WLCG/HSF Workshop 2018
- Centro Congressi Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Indico page
- 14 Dec, 2017 - Mini-workshop on Building Collaborations for ML in HEP
- 28-29 Nov, 2017 - S2I2/DOE-lab mini-workshop on HL-LHC Software and Computing R&D
- Catholic University of America, Washington DC
- Indico page
- 16-17 Nov, 2017 - Data Organisation, Management and Access (DOMA) in Astronomy, Genomics and High Energy Physics
- Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation), New York City
- Indico page
- 23-26 Aug, 2017 - S2I2-HEP Workshop
- University of Washington, Seattle
- A satellite meeting at the ACAT 2017 Workshop
- Indico page
- 26-30 Jun, 2017 - HEP Software Foundation Workshop
- LAPP (Annecy)
- Indico page
- 5-6 Jun, 2017 - CWP Event Processing Frameworks Workshop
- FNAL
- The workshop is just prior to the FNAL 50th Anniversary and User Meeting
- Indico page
- 22-24 May, 2017 - HEP Analysis Ecosystem Retreat
- 8-12 May, 2017 - DS@HEP 2017 (Data Science in High Energy Physics)
- FNAL
- Indico page
- 1-3 May, 2017 - 2nd S2I2 HEP/CS Workshop
- Princeton University
- Indico page
- 28-30 Mar, 2017 - CWP Visualization Workshop
- CERN (and Vidyo)
- Indico page
- 23 Mar, 2017 - Community White Paper Follow-up at FNAL
- FNAL
- Indico page
- 20-22 Mar, 2017 - IML Topical Machine Learning Workshop
- CERN
- The workshop includes a CWP session on Machine Learning
- Indico page
- 9 Mar, 2017 - Software Triggers and Event Reconstruction WG meeting
- A CWP session at the Connecting The Dots workshop
- Indico page
- 8 Mar, 2017 - S2I2-HEP/OSG/USCMS/USAtlas Panel at OSG All Hands Meeting
- 23-26 Jan, 2017 - HEP Software Foundation Workshop
- University of California at San Diego / San Diego Supercomputer Center
- Indico page
- 7-9 Dec, 2016 - S2I2 HEP/CS Workshop
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Event page, Indico page
- Workshop summary report (pdf)
The S2I2-HEP conceptualization project is part of the NSF's Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program.