HEP-FCE Working Group on Libraries and Tools

TL;DR

This report outlines a vision and recommendations for organizing and supporting shared software libraries and tools within the High Energy Physics community to enhance collaboration and efficiency.

Contribution

It provides a strategic vision, prioritized recommendations, and a survey of current software tools and libraries in HEP to identify strengths and areas for improvement.

Findings

Identification of key areas supporting shared software development

Survey of existing HEP software libraries and tools

Recommendations for improving software collaboration and infrastructure

Abstract

This is a report from the Libraries and Tools Working Group of the High Energy Physics Forum for Computational Excellence. It presents the vision of the working group for how the HEP software community may organize and be supported in order to more efficiently share and develop common software libraries and tools across the world's diverse set of HEP experiments. It gives prioritized recommendations for achieving this goal and provides a survey of a select number of areas in the current HEP software library and tools landscape. The survey identifies aspects which support this goal and areas with opportunities for improvements. The survey covers event processing software frameworks, software development, data management, workflow and workload management, geometry information management and conditions databases.