Collaboration Meeting

Europe/Berlin
H05 (RWTH Aachen)

H05

RWTH Aachen

    • Joint Session H05

      H05

      RWTH Aachen

      • Thomas Kuhr welcomes the members of the IDT-UM project at the first collaboration meeting. He reminds the participants that our goal is to develop experiment-overarching solutions.
      • Markus Schulz and Stefan Roiser presented ideas for a Scientific Software Institute. The general idea is well received. It should be set up in a way that it supports the various other initiatives. Further feedback is welcome.
      • Maryam Salehi asks the members to provide a description of their institute's contribution for the web page. She also needs nice pictures,
      • People prefer to use the video conferencing system they are familiar with. We'll use Vidyo for the next meeting.
      • We decided to create an organization on github. IDT-UM projects can create repositories under this organization. Existing projects could be linked. For area C we decided to use VISPA because it provides storage space for example data.
      • 1
        Welcome / Introduction
        Sprecher: Thomas Kuhr (LMU)
      • 2
        Scientific Software Institute
        Sprecher: Markus Schulz
      • 3
        Collaborative Services
        Sprecher: Thomas Kuhr (LMU)
    • Subject Areas A+B H03

      H03

      RWTH Aachen

      • 4
        Introduction into Subject Areas A & B
        Sprecher: Manuel Giffels (KIT)
      • 5
        Proposal Bonn
        Sprecher: Peter Wienemann
      • 6
        Extension of Pilot Project
        Sprecher: Kilian Schwarz (GSI)
      • 7
        Discussion about FTE cut
        Sprecher: Kilian Schwarz
      • 8
        Discussions within small groups (collaborators)
    • Subject Areas C+D H05

      H05

      RWTH Aachen

      IDT-UM common meeting of subject areas C & D 28-Mar-2019

      Minutes: Florian Bernlochner, Martin Erdmann

      C=Deep Learning, knowledge acquisition through data-driven methods

      D=Event reconstruction, cost- and energy-efficient utilization of computing resources

      1) Scope for both areas: generate progress in the experiment-specific challenges, transfer results into generalized & easy to digest ways to make results available to all partners. 

      For C we need small examples with source code & data to be executed on compute resources. These examples can be made available through VISPA at RWTH Aachen (presentation by Jonas Glombitza). At a later stage, all results can be moved to a Jupyter type system to be build e.g. at DESY. Martin will talk to Volker Gülzow.

      For D the cooperative ACTS is the appropriate delivery space. Their resources are shared on Gitlab at CERN, but a discussion has started to move to an open platform as well. 

      2) Generative modeling: Thorben Quast presented the R&D results on simulating an electromagnetic calorimeter (T. Comput Softw Big Sci (2019) 3: 4). Using the Wasserstein distance, the generator not only learns to produce energy deposits in the different layers, but also correlations between layers. Interpolations between trained electron beam energies works well. Extrapolation outside the trained electron energies does not work. Small energy depositions get underestimated by the generator. Markus Elsing suggests to compare production times of generative modeling with human made parameterizations.

      3) KIT progress: Florian presents the current efforts on algorithms in Karlsruhe. They actively participated in a Hackathon with the goal of track reconstruction. They will streamline results to get results into the ACTS system. They also succeeded in producing a benchmark in generative modeling based on the work of Thorben Quast et al. The goal is to now adapt this to a Belle II related example.

      4) Discussion on common grounds:

      Workpackage C1: Mainz is the only funded partner here, working on FPGA based jet reconstruction for ATLAS trigger. There is great interest within the IDT-UM community in a later tutorial how to get deep networks.

      Workpackage C2/C3: here benchmark data sets will be very useful to measure the performance of the various network efforts. Markus Elsing: ATLAS could provide tracking events based on the Machine Learning Challenge using the fastgen feature of ACTS. Thorben Quast: could provide electromagnetic calorimeter events (GEANT4). Thomas Kuhr: can provide BelleII event four vectors, Martin expresses interest in cooperating wrt the new Lorentz Boost Network (arXiv:1812.09722). For generative modeling in Belle II the Cherenkov detector may be a good initial candidate (reduced complexity compared to calorimeter with timing information). 

      Workpackage C4: here exchange is expected on the methods to gain insights in the networks which is central to all efforts.

      Workpackage D1: No news since the kick-off. 

      Workpackage D2: Also no news since the recent kick-off. Florian will start organizing with Markus Elsing, Andreas Salzburger, Heather Gray, and Simone Paganini the next tracking workshop / Hackathon, which will take place in Germany.