7th Particle Physics Computing Summer School held

The Computing Summer School, organized by the Particle Physics Computing Consortium of Japan, was held for five days from July 29 to August 2, 2024. The Particle Physics Computing Consortium is a community on computing and software technology in the fields of elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, cosmic rays, and astrophysics. This summer school for graduate students is one of the main activities of the consortium. This was the 7^th Computing Summer School, which began in 2017.

This year, 40 students from 16 universities participated in the summer school, which was held at KEK's Tsukuba Campus. Seven staff members of the KEK Computing Research Center contributed as lecturers. The course content covered a wide range of topics, including ROOT, a data analysis framework used by high energy physics and others, programming languages, Deep Learning, and Quantum Computing. Particularly, statistical analysis using ROOT is critical to obtain physics results in this field. Therefore, this year, we increased the course time for ROOT and provided more detailed explanations. The computing environment used for the courses was built on an academic cloud server called mdx (see the website below). Participants were asked to choose their practical training topic during the summer school and present the results on the final day. Despite the short training time, many presentations showed great ingenuity and creativity. A presentation on building a computer cluster using HTCondor software was worthy of notice and excellent. That served the school’s purpose of efficiently using computers.

This summer school was supported by the International Center for Elementary Particle Physics at the University of Tokyo, and the IINAS-NX program of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK).

• Particle Physics Computing Consortium (in Japanese)
• 7th Particle Physics Computing Summer School (in Japanese)
• KEK IINAS-NX
• mdx HP