1. GSoC 2013 project proposals J. Apostolakis J. Blomer 18 March 2013SFT Group Meeting1

2. Project proposals 1.CERNvm – 3 ideas 2.Simulation – 2 ideas 3.Gaudi – Concurrency for initialisation 4.CLING – 2 ideas 5.CERN ‘portal’ app on Android 6.Improved Union File system for LHCb farm 7.Potential Indico project 18 March 2013SFT Group Meeting2

3. CERNvm and Simulation CERNvm – Jakob (1 student) – Garbage Collection for the CernVM File System – Marketplace for VM Contextualization Artifacts – CernVM Zookeeper Simulation: Geant4/GPU – John A (1 student) – Improved Voxel Navigation – sequential/GPU – Evaluating Cilk+ or OpenAcc for Simulation using kernels 18 March 2013SFT Group Meeting3

4. Concurrency for initialisation Parallelisation of Core Services for HEP Data Processing – Address startup for applications in the cross- experiment HEP framework GAUDI Use – C++ language (C++11 standard) – Optimised lock-free algorithms and data structures. Mentors: Danillo, Benedikt 18 March 2013SFT Group Meeting4

5. CERN ‘portal’ app on Android Prototype an Android app that provides on CERN – real-time information on the accelerators, the detectors – the latest news, briefing on the physics, the history. The app could allow the public to follow the start up, in 2015, of the upgraded LHC. Mentors: Fons Rademakers, Timur Pocheptsov Requirements: Experience with Android development 18 March 2013SFT Group Meeting5

6. CLING Add support for other languages offered by clang – Mentor: Fons Rademakers – Required knowledge: intermediate C++, Clang abstract syntax tree (AST), basic Objective C/C++. Enhance Cling's execution engine with pre-run verification – Mentor: Vassil Vassilev – Required: intermediate C++, Clang AST, LLVM IR. 18 March 2013SFT Group Meeting6

7. Projects from LHCb and IT Customised Union File system – Target application: LHCb Event Filter farm – Mentors: Pierre Schweitzer, Loic Brada (LHCb) Indico – Target application – tbd – Mentor: 18 March 2013SFT Group Meeting7

8. Next steps Prepare the application – by March 29th – Polish the entries for the SFT ideas page – File the application (by Friday) Respond to student inquiries – Mailing list for mentors: – Be present in IM chat room – Give feedback to students on project proposals 18 March 2013SFT Group Meeting8