Is Julia ready to be adopted by HEP?

Autor: Gál Tamás, Gras Philippe, Hegner Benedikt, Hernandez Acosta Uwe, Kluth Stefan, Ling Jerry, Mato Pere, Moreno Alexander, Pivarski Jim, Schulz Oliver, Stewart Graeme, Strube Jan, Vasilev Vasil
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 295, p 05008 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2100-014X
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202429505008
Popis: The Julia programming language was created 10 years ago and is now a mature and stable language with a large ecosystem including more than 8,000 third-party packages. It was designed for scientific programming to be a high-level and dynamic language as Python is, while achieving runtime performances comparable to C/C++ or even faster. With this, we ask ourselves if the Julia language and its ecosystem is ready now for its adoption by the High Energy Physics community. We will report on a number of investigations and studies of the Julia language that have been done for various representative HEP applications, ranging from computing intensive initial data processing of experimental data and simulation, to final interactive data analysis and plotting. Aspects of collaborative code development of large software within a HEP experiment has also been investigated: scalability with large development teams, continuous integration and code test, code reuse, language interoperability to enable an adiabatic migration of packages and tools, software installation and distribution, training of the community, benefit from development from industry and academia from other fields.
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