QEDjl Event Generator Hackathon

Name: QEDjl Event Generator Hackathon
Start: 2025-10-20T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-22T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Open Science Lab

20 Oct 2025, 09:00 → 22 Oct 2025, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

117 (Open Science Lab)

117

Open Science Lab

Zelleschen Weg 21-25

Uwe Hernandez Acosta (Center for Advanced Systems Understanding)

Description

The goal of this hackathon is to lift the current implementation of GPUEventGenerators from experimental status to a more production-ready status.

Registration

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Monday 20 October
- Mon 20 Oct
- 09:00 → 09:30
  
  Welcome & Setup 30m
  
  Open the day, align expectations, short overview of the agenda, ensure everyone can run the code locally, and ensure the local rest environment works.
  
  Speaker: Dr Uwe Hernandez Acosta (Center for Advanced Systems Understanding)
- 09:30 → 10:30
  
  Code review - Part 1: General & Core 1h
  
  Introduction to event generation stages and general requirements. Discussion of the current core design choices and coding patterns.
  
  Speaker: Dr Uwe Hernandez Acosta (Center for Advanced Systems Understanding)
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:00 → 12:00
  
  Code review - Part 2: Examples & Infrastructure 1h
  
  Introduction of the current examples, test environment, and benchmark suite.
  
  Speaker: Dr Uwe Hernandez Acosta (Center for Advanced Systems Understanding)
- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Lunch break 1h
- 13:00 → 13:45
  
  Discussion: Code & API 45m
  
  Discussion about the general event generator pipeline. Agreement on the public API and the package layout. Definition of naming conventions and testing/benchmark pipelines.
  
  Speaker: Dr Uwe Hernandez Acosta (Center for Advanced Systems Understanding)
- 13:45 → 14:30
  
  Planning Session: Refactoring 45m
  
  Fill the milestone' Event Generator Hackathon 2025` with issues and todos and assign them.
  
  Identify integration breaks in QEDjl packages and write issues in the respective repo, label them with an overall label migration: RejectionSamplers.jl
  
  Speaker: Dr Uwe Hernandez Acosta (Center for Advanced Systems Understanding)
- 14:30 → 14:45
  
  Coffee break 15m
- 14:45 → 16:45
  
  Refactoring Sprint 1 2h
  
  Remove dead code and obsolete QEDjl patches. Perform overall cleanup. Remove add_dev.jl and adapt to dev branches of all QEDjl packages.
  Migrate unit test CI by using the IntegrationTests.jl framework and a Gitlab mirror.
- 16:45 → 17:00
  
  Wrap-up: day 1 15m
  
  Summary on what has been done and identify issues to be moved to day two.