Category
Software
Owner
HSF/Generators
Risk Summary
Event generators for higher order not optimised
Risk Detail
Event generators for higher orders are not optimised
Effect
Event generation will be expensive in CPU time and become a significant fraction of CPU budget
Mitigation
Workshops organised via the HSF with the generator community. Must keep pushig this as a priority
Risk
Risk Impact
4
Risk Likelihood
2
Risk Severity
8
Generating events at higher orders will become more important when we move to the high luminosity area. With the software at it's current state this will become a major fraction of the required effort. The risk is that the teams don’t find the effort to improve the efficiency of the generators sufficiently. (The correct factor is difficult to state at the moment, especially since certain problems, such as the impact of negative weights aren’t well understood). There is an agreement that the efficiency has to improve somewhere between 2-5.