Ongoing regular activities

• Oversee testing shifts (Gunter)
• Release management and QA testing (Gabriele,Alberto)
• Perform regular profiling benchmarking of G4 development and public releases (Soon, Krzysztof)

Developments

• System testing shifts
  • Support and improvements for integration testing (Gunter)
• Release testing
  • Q/A monitoring with Valgrind and Coverity (Gabriele)
  • General testing/debugging of problems during the release periods or development releases (Gabriele)
  • Reproducibility tests (Alberto)
• Performance profiling and benchmarking (Soon,Krzysztof)
  • Regular profiling/benchmarking of Geant4 development and public releases
  • Extending CPU performance measurements to different computer architectures and programming models
  • Improving automation of CPU performance measurements using benchmarking suites
  • Evaluation of new performance measurements tools, especially those suitable for the multithreaded applications
  • Replacement of FAST
  • Studies, including code reviews, to improve and measure Geant4 computing performance
• Benchmark Geant4/MT applications on Intel Xeon/Phi(MIC) (Andrea,Soon)
  • Evaluate G4 performance for MT on different architectures(Andrea)
  • Measure memory consumption in MT and identify strategies for memory consumption reduction in MT(Andrea)
  • Consolidate Testing infrastructure on Xeon Phi at SLAC (Andrea)
• Performance test for HPC (supercom, parallel processing) (Kiheyon,Jangho)
• Continue to encourage the collaboration to provide more tests and more rigorous tests (All)