Public Minutes of the 87 th Steering Board Meeting
October 4th, 2014
Attendees: Makoto Asai, Marc Verderi, Andrea Dotti, Alberto Ribon, Gabriele Cosmo, Hisaya Kurashige, Dennis Wright, Sebastien Incerti, Ivana Hrivnacova, John Allison (OB liaison) Takashi Sasaki, Koichi Murakami, Luciano Pandola, Gunter Folger, Vladimir Ivantchenko, Laurent Garnier
Excuses: Ben Morgan, Mike Kelsey, Soon Yung Jun, Peter Gumplinger
Invited: Federico Carminati (Agenda item 1)
1. ** **Changes of CERN’s contribution to Geant4
By invitation, Federico Carminati explained the foreseen changes of SFT simulation activities for Geant4.
2. Regular items
Open Requirements, pending actions and open bug reports are reviewed. For this last item, assignees of long standing bug reports have been asked for detailed status reports on the issues and these reports are reviewed.
Computing performance monitoring has reported non-negligible performance degradation for the two recent reference tags, despite an improved memory usage. This is under investigation.
3. Towards 10.1 release
Release schedule has been reconfirmed.
o October 24 – Group-1
o October 31 – Group-2
o November 7 – Group-3
o November 28 – Integration/system testing
o November 28 – User documentation
o December 5 – Release
Xeon Phi is now on stage for daily testing. Xeon Phi with appropriate compiler will be added to the “tested platforms” of the release note.
Collaborators are reminded about the importance of making granular and progressive tags.
2014 planned development items are reviewed. 2014 planned feature web page will be updated accordingly.
4. General paper
The paper status has been reported during the Collaboration meeting.
It is confirmed once again that the authorship is granted to the collaborators who made contributions for the releases 8.0 through 10.0, roughly 2007 through 2013.
The Steering Board creates the author list and then individual collaborator has to confirm their authorship with their official affiliation.
Authorship survey will be concluded within this year.
5. ** **2015 Collaboration meeting
The Steering Board appreciates FNAL colleagues to host it.
Two weeks are proposed:
o September 21 – September 25, 2015
o September 28 – October 2, 2015
Date will be fixed soon.
6. ** **C++11/C++14 migration
Proposal to launch a task force to look in what we can do and evaluate effort for migrating to C++11/C++14 was agreed.
7. AOB
a. Input from recent events
o John Apostolakis made presentation on Geant4 version 10.0 at ACAT (Sep. 1-5, 2014 @ Prague, Czech).
o Makoto Asai attended with an invited talk on Geant4 applications to 18th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection & Shielding Division of American Nuclear Society (Sep.14-18, 2014 @ Knoxville, TN, USA).
b. Near future events
o G4DNA tutorial will be held at ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands on November 7, 2014. About 20-25 participants are expected.
http://space-env.esa.int/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=52
o The conference IEEE/NSS/MIC will take place in Seattle, November 8-15, 2014. It has no planned contributions from Geant4 collaborators.
http://nssmic2014.npss-confs.org/
o Supercomputing conference will be held in New Orleans, LA, USA on November 16-21.
http://sc14.supercomputing.org/
o At the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting 2014 (Nov. 09-13, 2014 @ Anaheim, CA, USA), one full day workshop on Geant4 version 10 is scheduled.
o CHEP 2015 will be held at OIST, Okinawa, Japan on April 13-17, 2015. Deadline of abstract submission is October 15th.
o Note post meeting: Deadline has been extended to October 25th.
o M\&C+SNA+MC 2015 will be held in Nashville, TN, USA on April 19-23, 2015. One full day workshop on Geant4 version 10 is scheduled.
o Deadline of long abstract has been extended to the end of this year.
Meeting Date
Saturday, October 4, 2014 - 12:00