HEP Software Foundation Newsletter

Training

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

HSF training and education notebook

A google document developing HSF training and education plans

Training section of the knowledge base

Here you will find training related organizations, events, software packages that have been added to the knowledge base. Please contribute to the knowledge base to fill out the content!

HSF training and education working group forum

An open google group discussion forum, you are welcome to join and participate

Packaging

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The software packaging and distribution activity and working group is getting underway to address common issues, tools, and approaches, convened by Liz Sexton-Kennedy (FNAL) and Benedikt Hegner (CERN). The activity was launched with a meeting on Feb 25 2015. All are welcome to join the forum and participate:

Software Packaging Tools Discussion Forum

Goals

The aim of this working group is to foster communication and exchange among the experiments’ librarians. We identified various topics to work on. Some of them are:

Common build recipes and tools
How to take most advantage of technologies like dockers
Exchange of experience with the CMake eco-system

We started by tackling the first item.

Common Build Recipes and Tools

Software development in high energy physics follows the paradigm of open-source software (OSS). Experiments as well as the theory community heavily rely on software being developed outside of the field. Creating a consistent and working stack out of 100s of packages, on a variety of platforms is a non-trivial task. Within the field multiple technical solutions exist to configure and build those stacks. None of this work is experiment specific and our working group agrees that this effort is being duplicated.

We held various meetings to look at the existing build and packaging solutions

During these meetings we looked at

Worch
LCGCMake
cmsBuild
homebrew
Nix
Contractor
SciSoft

and currently prepare a document summarizing our analysis.

Other resources

HSF Organization on GitHub
HSF cmaketools package
Technical Note on Build Tools (in preparation)
Draft Technical Note on Platform Naming Conventions

Licensing

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Providing recommendations and standards for software licensing has been identified as a high priority for the HSF. To this end the software licensing working group is being established.

Resources

Report from the Task Force on Open Source Software Licence at CERN - Main report and Annexes

DIANA/HEP project

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Jobs in the DIANA/HEP project.

Data Science @ LHC 2015 Workshop

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The Data Science @ LHC 2015 Workshop takes place from 9th to 11th of November at CERN.

Welcome to the HSF Newsletter

Wed, 13 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This is a regular newsletter to inform the community of developments across the HEP Software Foundation activity areas.

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