This deliverable
This deliverable describes the work executed in Spectrum Work Package (WP) 3 and in particular by the SPECTRUM Community of Practice (CoP), a place “where new ideas can be proposed and analysed, not only by official experiment representatives, but also by research groups who want to offer new ideas on the path of a viable process for the next generation of experiments, from the HEP and RA and other scientific areas”.
In the first 15 months of the SPECTRUM project, WP3 successfully launched a Community of Practice among diverse communities such as High Energy Physics, Radio Astronomy and e-Infrastructure managers and administrators. The CoP is divided into 6 Working Groups, with more than 115 participants.
A survey was submitted to the enlarged domain (High Energy Physics, Radio Astronomy and e-Infrastructures) on July 18th in order to collect inputs from an enlarged community – including researchers, managers, and infrastructure stakeholders; an internal report prepared for MS5 (October 2024) presented preliminary results from the survey. SPECTRUM decided to keep the survey open indefinitely, in order to allow for late respondents whose contributions will be included later in the project.
The main findings reported in this deliverable are the Working Groups discussions, the survey, and from a Knowledge Hub consisting of more than 60 documents. They include suggestions on how to address the career problem in domain-specific computing tasks, the need to evolve our software stacks towards more efficient and performing computing architectures, the need to embrace AI as a base tool for our software, and policy aspects like the need to adhere to FAIR principles and participate into inter- and extra- domains collaborations. A large focus is on the utilization of modern e-Infrastructure, including Commercial and Public Clouds, and HPC systems.
The deliverable will serve as one of the inputs to the second phase of SPECTRUM (months 16-30) and eventually for the SRIDA and Technical Blueprint, to be delivered at the end of the project.
Creating a connected community of scientists and infrastructure managers to work towards a mutual understanding...
Creating a connected community of scientists and infrastructure managers to work towards a mutual understanding...
