[Halld-offline] Fwd: Towards a Scientific Software Innovation Institute

[Curtis A. Meyer]

Thanks Matt,  

this is indeed interesting for us…  Curtis
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> On Jan 5, 2017, at 7:47 AM, Shepherd, Matthew <mashephe at indiana.edu> wrote:
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> 
> Hi all,
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> See the note below from Mike Sokoloff regarding the development of a roadmap for scientific software for the HEP community into the future.  It could be beneficial for us to participate in this process -- the invitation is open.  
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> If any of you would like to attend the workshop or pursue this more, you might contact Mike directly.  If you do, please cc me so I have some idea who Mike is connecting with from JLab.
> 
> Matt
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> PS:  I looked through the working groups and topics.  One issue/challenge that I couldn't easily find in their list of topics was unbinned likelihood fitting and the associated strategies for evaluating uncertainties in a non-Gaussian limit, e.g., bootstrap, which can be compute intensive also.  I sent a query to Mike to see if this was also on his radar.
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: "Sokoloff, Michael (sokoloff)" <sokoloff at ucmail.uc.edu <mailto:sokoloff at ucmail.uc.edu>>
>> Subject: Re: Towards a Scientific Software Innovation Institute
>> Date: December 22, 2016 at 4:10:15 PM EST
>> To: "Shepherd, Matthew" <mashephe at indiana.edu <mailto:mashephe at indiana.edu>>
>> Cc: Peter Elmer <Peter.elmer at cern.ch <mailto:Peter.elmer at cern.ch>>, Mark Neubauer <msn at illinois.edu <mailto:msn at illinois.edu>>, "Sokoloff, Michael (sokoloff)" <sokoloff at ucmail.uc.edu <mailto:sokoloff at ucmail.uc.edu>>
>> 
>> Hi Matt:
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>> Continuing the process  — (and including a general introduction you can pass along to JLab colleagues):
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>> Peter Elmer (Princeton, CMS, lead PI), Mark Neubauer (Illinois, ATLAS), and I were awarded an NSF S2I2 conceptualization grant this past summer to develop a Strategic Plan for a Scientific Software Innovation Institute implementation proposal with a focus on software needed for HEP in the High Luminosity LHC era.  The project has a web site at
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>>   http://s2i2-hep.org/ <http://s2i2-hep.org/>
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>> The HEP Software Foundation has initiated a project to produce a bigger picture Community White Paper  with a roadmap for computing and software required for the HL-LHC era.  We are moving forward with the CWP process at the HSF meeting in San Diego next month and hope you will join us.  The workshop registration page is at
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>>   https://indico.cern.ch/event/570249/page/9149-workshop-registration <https://indico.cern.ch/event/570249/page/9149-workshop-registration>
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>> Please note the discount code HSF2017S2I2 for US participants.  If you need additional travel support, please send e-mail to Peter Elmer  ASAP (with me in cc). 
>> 
>> We had a related S2I2 HEP/CS workshop at the University of Illinois in early December.  It was productive, and we tested some methods for generating questions and possible answers.  You can see of summary of what was done by going to the timetable for the workshop
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>>   https://indico.cern.ch/event/575443/ <https://indico.cern.ch/event/575443/>
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>> and clicking on the presentation link under my name starting with “s2i2_hep_pods_  “.  This is a Word document with urls for Google docs summarizing morning (at the bottom) and afternoon (at the top) discussions of how HEP and CS can collaborate to our mutual benefit.  Four groups worked to develop questions in the morning, a common set of questions were distilled at lunchtime, and four groups (membership re-constituted randomly) addressed the questions in the afternoon.  Friday morning a representative from each group presented their results and we had a lively conversation.  
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>> We hope you will be able to join us, and we would appreciate your forwarding this your your JLab colleagues you think might be interested.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Mike
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