Software and Computing are an integral part of the science process. High Energy Physics traditionally had the largest computing resource needs and subsequently most complex software stack in science. This is not true anymore, with many other science domains predicting equal or larger resource needs. The Computational Frontier will assess the software and computing needs of the High Energy Physics community emphasizing common needs and common solutions across the frontiers. We want to gain an overall understanding of the community's needs and discuss common solutions to them in the context of current and future solutions from the HEP community, other science disciplines and industry solutions. Our focus is to facilitate discussions amongst all frontiers and don't separate them into individual groups.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Snowmass Report and the Community Summer Study meeting (CSS) will be delayed by one year until 2022, see the Official Announcement here.
The Computational Frontier plans to pause until August 2021. This means that there will be no frontier-level activities during this period.
Some of the topical groups will continue work already started on existing defined directions, but with meetings at a lower frequency. Other topical groups will pause their work. Any topical group activities will be advertised in advance via email and Slack.
The Small Experiments Software and Computing Workshop we had started planning will be rescheduled for after the restart of frontier activities.
To allow topical group conveners sufficient time to consider white papers, we ask all who wish to contribute to submit (via email to topical group conveners) at least a title and abstract by the end of January, 2022. This is to ensure that all relevant areas are covered. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with the topical group conveners with ideas or plans for white papers. The general Snowmass deadlines apply.
The Frontier Summary will be further summarized in the Snowmass 2020 executive summary, see Snowmass 2020 Report guidelines
| Name | Institution | |
|---|---|---|
| Steve Gottlieb | Indiana University | sg[at]indiana.edu |
| Daniel Elvira | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | daniel[at]fnal.gov |
| Ben Nachman | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | bpnachman[at]lbl.gov |
| Name | Email List | Slack Channel |
|---|---|---|
| CompF1: Experimental Algorithm Parallelization | snowmass-compf01-expalgos[at]fnal.gov | #compf01-expalgos |
| CompF2: Theoretical Calculations and Simulation | snowmass-compf02-theorycalcsim[at]fnal.gov | #compf02-theorycalcsim |
| CompF3: Machine Learning | snowmass-compf03-ml[at]fnal.gov | #compf03-ml |
| CompF4: Storage and processing resource access (Facility and Infrastructure R&D) | snowmass-compf04-storeandprocess[at]fnal.gov | #compf04-storeandprocess |
| CompF5: End user analysis | snowmass-compf05-useranalysis[at]fnal.gov | #compf05-useranalysis |
| CompF6: Quantum computing | snowmass-compf06-quantum[at]fnal.gov | #compf06-quantum |
| CompF7: Reinterpretation and long-term preservation of data and code | snowmass-compf07-preservation[at]fnal.gov | #compf07-preservation |
A list of documents/papers relevant to the Computational Frontier can be found here: Bibliography of Documents/Papers relevant to the Computational Frontier
Please note that these are draft reports. We welcome your feedback! If you have comments or suggestions, please send an email to the topical group / frontier conveners, topical group e-group, and/or slack channel.
Software and Computing are used by most of the SnowMass2012 frontiers. We setup liaisons to keep in close contact:
| Frontier | Liaison |
|---|---|
| Energy Frontier | Daniel Elvira (FNAL), before 9/2021 |
| Energy Frontier | Peter Onyisi (Texas), after 9/2021 |
| Neutrino Physics Frontier | Alex Himmel (FNAL) |
| Rare Processes and Precision | Michael Williams (MIT) |
| Cosmic Frontier | Deborah Bard (NERSC), Brian Yanny (FNAL) |
| Theory Frontier | Steven Gottlieb (Indiana) |
| Accelerator Science/Technology | Jean-Luc Vay (LBL) |
| Instrumentation Frontier | Darin Acosta (Florida) |
| Underground Facilities | Eric Dahl (Northwestern) |
| Community Engagement | David Bruhwiler (RadiaSoft ) |
Letters of Intent submitted to Energy Frontier (as primary frontier) shown in this link. Here is the list of submitted LOIs that include CompF as primary or secondary topic. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission. Please go to the “topical” group to see the LOIs submitted to specific topics. Documents with “CompF0” will be shown only here (no specific topic).
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