EICUG Software Working Group Meeting

Wednesday 3 Jun 2020, 13:30 → 14:30 US/Eastern

We will use BlueJeans for the remote meeting: https://bluejeans.com/920347364

13:30 → 13:45 News from Yellow Report Initiative

Speakers: Andrea Bressan, Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab), Torre Wenaus (BNL)

DWG+PWG+SWG 

• PWG -> DWG+SWG Status of detector parameterizations and versioning 
• SWG Encourage to use https://github.com/eic 

 

DWG

• Rolf has informed us that modifications of the EICUG Summer agenda are being discussed:

  • cancellation (postponing) of the EICUG annual meeting in Miami

  • a YR-dedicated meeting in mid July (July 15-17)

  • DWG conveners suggest a "short, operative meeting (1-1.5 d), strictly informative and related to monitoring the on-going YR process".

• Tanja on behalf of the DWG is preparing  a short writeup on the first set of parameters, version 0.1: 

  • Double-check eic_smear parameterizations and release version  0.1 (or choose another versions.

  • Documentation? 

13:45 → 14:30 Discussion after "Pavia" meeting

Follow up

• We invited Miguel Arratia (UCR) to mirror the Delphes detector cards, validation code, etc. on https://github.com/eic and he will do so. 
• We have encouraged the DWG+PWG to use https://github.com/eic and they will be supportive. 
• Improve communication 

Priorities 

Common output format (Andrea, Kolja)

Cross-tool validation

The "2nd EIC Yellow Report Workshop” has shown that the EIC Software tools we support are accepted and used by the Detector and Physics Working Groups: 

• For the indefinite future we will have two full simulation and reconstruction frameworks, ESCalate and fun4all. In addition to that, we still have EicRoot as Alexander’s framework is still being used by various groups. 
• On the fast simulation side, we support one tool, eic-smear, though some in the community are using Delphes. 

With the questions we have received for the Software Q&A and the discussions during the workshop, it has become clear that we need cross-validation between these tools: 

• We need to cross-validate ESCalate, fun4all, and EicRoot, 
• the fast simulation with the full simulation, 
• and maybe even eic-smear with Delphes. 

The Software Working Group would benefit from additional resources for this task. Do you know anyone who could help?