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Blueprint Meetings

“The Blueprint Activity is designed to inform the development and evolution of the IRIS-HEP strategic vision. At its core, it is a series of workshops that bring together IRIS-HEP team members, key stakeholders and domain experts from disciplines of importance to the Institute’s mission. The Blueprint Activity facilitates the Institute’s role as an intellectual hub for software and computing R&D in high-energy particle physics and beyond.”

We have $$ to send people to these, even (and especially) if they are not part of IRIS-HEP!!

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The Process

Person responsible plans for the meeting

Successful meeting is no more than 30 people, short and concentrated - 2.5 days?

Depends a bit on the topic.

Needs clear goal (product, note, report, discussion goal, etc.)
Hosting institution

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Topical Meetings

IRIS-HEP topical meetings cover one or more presentations involving IRIS-HEP researchers or from related research areas. They are typically held Mondays 17:30 GVA and Wednesdays 18:00 GVA. Vidyo connections are always available and meetings are usually recorded.

Two are currently scheduled:

“Building a Teaching Assistant Chatbot using GPT-4” and “Tiled: Service for Structured Data Access”

Process is very simple!

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BluePrint Ideas for Larger Than IRIS-HEP

Coordinated Ecosystem for HL-LHC Computing

Should occur ~ every two years. Last one in Nov 2022 -> Fall 2023.
Follow up earlier with the international benchmarking and P5 report released?
The Nelson memo (OpenData)?

Analysis Preservation

Experiments seem to be pulling back a little from HEPData, and perhaps more from REANA
Time to gather experimentalists and theorists to see what the appropriate level is, tooling?

Should coordinate with LHC Reinterpretation Forum steering group and FAIROS-HEP

Summer 2024?
Also Nelson memo (OpenData)

What is a HL-LHC Analysis?

Data sizes? Methods? Precision vs Discovery
Representative analyses? (“a analysis”)
Ignore solutions explicitly - just talk about framing the problem
Can we build a new ADL benchmarks

XROOT - Sustainability
Analysis Techniques

Explicitly including beyond the LHC
Outreach we are working on
Analysis eco-system workshop - add to that meeting?

DOE National Labs released a report on AI - 200 pages, making a case to congress

Where are we in that? How should that work with Office of Science?
AI for Science, Energy, and Security Report

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Analysis preservation

Story for service preservation

How to run an analysis in 10 years that requires ServiceX version X and the current one is X+40
Which things need to be packaged? Which can be assumed to still exist?

Is it a solved story of where we store all the images we might need?
What kind of functionality is missing today to package up a complex analysis pipeline?

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“Internal” blueprints?

Future of SSL: R&D and hardware

The river cluster is near or at EOL. Build a coherent vision for the next steps.

IRIS-HEP and CPSC

Part of the coordinated eco-system panel?
Including non-LHC experiments