A Roadmap for HEP Software and Computing R&D for the 2020s
Johannes Albrecht, Antonio Augusto Alves, Guilherme Amadio, Giuseppe Andronico, Nguyen Anh-Ky, Laurent Aphecetche, John Apostolakis, Makoto Asai, Luca Atzori, Marian Babik, Giuseppe Bagliesi, Marilena Bandieramonte, Sunanda Banerjee, Martin Barisits, Lothar A. T. Bauerdick, Stefano Belforte, Douglas Benjamin, Catrin Bernius, Wahid Bhimji, Riccardo Maria Bianchi, Ian Bird, Catherine Biscarat, Jakob Blomer, Kenneth Bloom, Tommaso Boccali, Brian Bockelman, Tomasz Bold, Daniele Bonacorsi, Antonio Boveia, Concezio Bozzi, Marko Bracko, David Britton, Andy Buckley, Predrag Buncic, Paolo Calafiura, Simone Campana, Philippe Canal, Luca Canali, Gianpaolo Carlino, Nuno Castro, Marco Cattaneo, Gianluca Cerminara, Javier Cervantes Villanueva, Philip Chang, John Chapman, Gang Chen, Taylor Childers, Peter Clarke, Marco Clemencic, Eric Cogneras, Jeremy Coles, Ian Collier, David Colling, Gloria Corti, Gabriele Cosmo, Davide Costanzo, Ben Couturier, Kyle Cranmer, Jack Cranshaw, Leonardo Cristella, David Crooks, Sabine Crépé-Renaudin, Robert Currie, Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Kaushik De, Michel De Cian, Albert De Roeck, Antonio Delgado Peris, Frédéric Derue, Alessandro Di Girolamo, Salvatore Di Guida, Gancho Dimitrov, Caterina Doglioni, Andrea Dotti, Dirk Duellmann, Laurent Duflot, Dave Dykstra, Katarzyna Dziedziniewicz-Wojcik, Agnieszka Dziurda, Ulrik Egede, Peter Elmer, Johannes Elmsheuser, V. Daniel Elvira, Giulio Eulisse, Steven Farrell, Torben Ferber, Andrej Filipcic, Ian Fisk, Conor Fitzpatrick, José Flix, Andrea Formica, Alessandra Forti, Giovanni Franzoni, James Frost, Stu Fuess, Frank Gaede, Gerardo Ganis, Robert Gardner, Vincent Garonne, Andreas Gellrich, Krzysztof Genser, Simon George, Frank Geurts, Andrei Gheata, Mihaela Gheata, Francesco Giacomini, Stefano Giagu, Manuel Giffels, Douglas Gingrich, Maria Girone, Vladimir V. Gligorov, Ivan Glushkov, Wesley Gohn, Jose Benito Gonzalez Lopez, Isidro González Caballero, Juan R. González Fernández, Giacomo Govi, Claudio Grandi, Hadrien Grasland, Heather Gray, Lucia Grillo, Wen Guan, Oliver Gutsche, Vardan Gyurjyan, Andrew Hanushevsky, Farah Hariri, Thomas Hartmann, John Harvey, Thomas Hauth, Benedikt Hegner, Beate Heinemann, Lukas Heinrich, Andreas Heiss, José M. Hernández, Michael Hildreth, Mark Hodgkinson, Stefan Hoeche, Burt Holzman, Peter Hristov, Xingtao Huang, Vladimir N. Ivanchenko, Todor Ivanov, Jan Iven, Brij Jashal, Bodhitha Jayatilaka, Roger Jones, Michel Jouvin, Soon Yung Jun, Michael Kagan, Charles William Kalderon, Meghan Kane, Edward Karavakis, Daniel S. Katz, Dorian Kcira, Oliver Keeble, Borut Paul Kersevan, Michael Kirby, Alexei Klimentov, Markus Klute, Ilya Komarov, Dmitri Konstantinov, Patrick Koppenburg, Jim Kowalkowski, Luke Kreczko, Thomas Kuhr, Robert Kutschke, Valentin Kuznetsov, Walter Lampl, Eric Lancon, David Lange, Mario Lassnig, Paul Laycock, Charles Leggett, James Letts, Birgit Lewendel, Teng Li, Guilherme Lima, Jacob Linacre, Tomas Linden, Miron Livny, Giuseppe Lo Presti, Sebastian Lopienski, Peter Love, Adam Lyon, Nicolò Magini, Zachary L. Marshall, Edoardo Martelli, Stewart Martin-Haugh, Pere Mato, Kajari Mazumdar, Thomas McCauley, Josh McFayden, Shawn McKee, Andrew McNab, Rashid Mehdiyev, Helge Meinhard, Dario Menasce, Patricia Mendez Lorenzo, Alaettin Serhan Mete, Michele Michelotto, Jovan Mitrevski, Lorenzo Moneta, Ben Morgan, Richard Mount, Edward Moyse, Sean Murray, Armin Nairz, Mark S. Neubauer, Andrew Norman, Sérgio Novaes, Mihaly Novak, Arantza Oyanguren, Nurcan Ozturk, Andres Pacheco Pages, Michela Paganini, Jerome Pansanel, Vincent R. Pascuzzi, Glenn Patrick, Alex Pearce, Ben Pearson, Kevin Pedro, Gabriel Perdue, Antonio Perez-Calero Yzquierdo, Luca Perrozzi, Troels Petersen, Marko Petric, Andreas Petzold, Jónatan Piedra, Leo Piilonen, Danilo Piparo, Jim Pivarski, Witold Pokorski, Francesco Polci, Karolos Potamianos, Fernanda Psihas, Albert Puig Navarro, Günter Quast, Gerhard Raven, Jürgen Reuter, Alberto Ribon, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Martin Ritter, James Robinson, Eduardo Rodrigues, Stefan Roiser, David Rousseau, Gareth Roy, Grigori Rybkine, Andre Sailer, Tai Sakuma, Renato Santana, Andrea Sartirana, Heidi Schellman, Jaroslava Schovancová, Steven Schramm, Markus Schulz, Andrea Sciabà, Sally Seidel, Sezen Sekmen, Cedric Serfon, Horst Severini, Elizabeth Sexton-Kennedy, Michael Seymour, Davide Sgalaberna, Illya Shapoval, Jamie Shiers, Jing-Ge Shiu, Hannah Short, Gian Piero Siroli, Sam Skipsey, Tim Smith, Scott Snyder, Michael D. Sokoloff, Panagiotis Spentzouris, Hartmut Stadie, Giordon Stark, Gordon Stewart, Graeme A. Stewart, Arturo Sánchez, Alberto Sánchez-Hernández, Anyes Taffard, Umberto Tamponi, Jeff Templon, Giacomo Tenaglia, Vakhtang Tsulaia, Christopher Tunnell, Eric Vaandering, Andrea Valassi, Sofia Vallecorsa, Liviu Valsan, Peter Van Gemmeren, Renaud Vernet, Brett Viren, Jean-Roch Vlimant, Christian Voss, Margaret Votava, Carl Vuosalo, Carlos Vázquez Sierra, Romain Wartel, Gordon T. Watts, Torre Wenaus, Sandro Wenzel, Mike Williams, Frank Winklmeier, Christoph Wissing, Frank Wuerthwein, Benjamin Wynne, Zhang Xiaomei, Wei Yang, Efe Yazgan
Abstract
Particle physics has an ambitious and broad experimental programme for the coming decades. This programme requires large investments in detector hardware, either to build new facilities and experiments, or to upgrade existing ones. Similarly, it requires commensurate investment in the R&D of software to acquire, manage, process, and analyse the shear amounts of data to be recorded. In planning for the HL-LHC in particular, it is critical that all of the collaborating stakeholders agree on the software goals and priorities, and that the efforts complement each other. In this spirit, this white paper describes the R&D activities required to prepare for this software upgrade.