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Group Leader: Gerardo Ganis
Deputy Group Leader: Predrag Buncic
Secretariat: Yasemin Altinbilek

The SFT group in the EP department develops and maintains common scientific software for the physics experiments in close collaboration with the EP experimental groups, the IT department and external HEP institutes, providing common infrastructure and expertise to CERN and CERN-recognized experiments. Most of the activities are carried out in the context of the Applications Area of the LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project. The group coordinates the software package of EP R&D (WP7), being directly involved in most of the WP7 tasks, and it is also involved in community initiatives such as the HEP Software Foundation (HSF). In addition, several group members have direct responsibilities in the software projects of the LHC experiments and FCC.

SFT projects are organised in five main areas: Simulation, ROOT, CernVMStacks and ML4EP.

SFT Group Meetings

25 Apr 2025

SPI++ and Pre-Lim
CERN32/S-C22
25 Apr 2025

ROOT Framework Meetings
CERN32/1-A24
28 Apr 2025

Group Meetings
CERN32/1-A24
28 Apr 2025

ROOT Framework Meetings
2 May 2025

SPI++ and Pre-Lim
CERN32/S-C22
2 May 2025

ROOT Framework Meetings
CERN32/1-A24

Projects

SFT puts its expertise and talents at the service of CERN and CERN-recognized experiments with the goal of designing and developing highly innovating scientific software solutions. It also provides the basic building blocks of every successful software stack, from event generation, simulation and data analysis. The packages developed and maintained by the SFT group are not only targeting High Energy Physics, but also other disciplines, for example Medical Sciences, Biology and Astronomy.

Under the spotlight

17 Nov
2025

The 13th ROOT Users Workshop will be held in Valencia, Spain. It is an occasion to discuss ROOT and its related activities today and to help shape the future of the project. The workshop features four ...

29 Sep
2025

The Sixteenth edition of the INFN International School on "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC25 - EFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC ...

5 May
2025

The WLCG/HSF Workshop 2025 brings together the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and the HEP Software Foundation (HSF) communities to discuss key technical and strategic topics shaping the future of ...

4 Oct
2021

 

The twelfth edition of the INFN International School on "Architectures, tools and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications" ESC21 - EFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC ...