Workplan 2015

Work Plan for 2015

Oversee testing shifts (Gunter)
Release management and QA testing (Gabriele,Alberto)
Perform regular profiling benchmarking of G4 development and public releases (Soon, Krzysztof)

System testing shifts
Support and improvements for integration testing (Gunter)
Release testing
Q/A monitoring with Valgrind and Coverity (Gabriele)
General testing/debugging of problems during the release periods or development releases (Gabriele)
Reproducibility tests (Alberto)
Performance profiling and benchmarking (Soon,Krzysztof)
Regular profiling/benchmarking of Geant4 development and public releases
Extending CPU performance measurements to different computer architectures and programming models
Improving automation of CPU performance measurements using benchmarking suites
Evaluation of new performance measurements tools, especially those suitable for the multithreaded applications
Replacement of FAST
Studies, including code reviews, to improve and measure Geant4 computing performance
Benchmark Geant4/MT applications on Intel Xeon/Phi(MIC) (Andrea,Soon)
Evaluate G4 performance for MT on different architectures(Andrea)
Measure memory consumption in MT and identify strategies for memory consumption reduction in MT(Andrea)
Consolidate Testing infrastructure on Xeon Phi at SLAC (Andrea)
Performance test for HPC (supercom, parallel processing) (Kiheyon,Jangho)
Continue to encourage the collaboration to provide more tests and more rigorous tests (All)

cvs version info: $Id: 2015.shtml,v 1.2 2015/02/18 15:50:08 syjun Exp $