Add GSoC proposal for ATLAS raw data compression study (HSF#1501)

* Create proposal_ATLASrawcompression.md

* add mentors

* gsoc: copy ATLAS/ANL over to 2024

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Co-authored-by: Valentin Volkl <[email protected]>

_gsocorgs/2024/anl.md

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+---
+title: "ANL"
+author: "Sylvester Joosten"
+layout: default
+organization: ANL
+logo: anl-logo.gif
+description: |
+  Argonne National Lab (ANL) is a multidisciplinary science and engineering research center, where talented 
+  scientists and engineers work together to answer the biggest questions facing humanity, from how to obtain 
+  affordable clean energy to protecting ourselves and our environment.
+---
+
+{% include gsoc_proposal.ext %}

_gsocprojects/2024/project_ATLAS.md

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+---
+project: ATLAS
+layout: default
+logo: ATLAS-logo.png
+description: |
+  [ATLAS](http://atlas.cern) is one of the four major experiments at the [Large Hadron Collider](http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/large-hadron-collider) (LHC) at [CERN](http://home.cern/). It is a general-purpose particle physics experiment run by an international collaboration and is designed to exploit the full discovery potential and the huge range of physics opportunities that the LHC provides.
+---
+
+{% include gsoc_project.ext %}

_gsocproposals/2024/proposal_ATLASrawcompression.md

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+---
+title: Lossless compression of raw data for the ATLAS experiment at CERN
+layout: gsoc_proposal
+project: ATLAS
+year: 2024
+organization: 
+ - ANL
+ - CERN
+difficulty: medium
+duration: 175
+mentor_avail: July-September
+---
+
+## Description
+
+[ATLAS](http://atlas.cern) is one of the particle physics experiments at the [Large Hadron Collider](http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/large-hadron-collider) (LHC) at [CERN](http://home.cern/). With the planned upgrade of the LHC (the so called High Luminosity phase), allowing for even more detailed exploration of fundamental particles and forces of nature, it is expected that recorded data rate will be even ten times greater than today. Therefore, the storage requirements of the experiment will be much higher, crossing the threshold of one exabyte of tape storage (already compressed). One of the methods of addressing this challenge is to improve the compression methods, as even a small enhancement of the compression ratio may have a significant impact.
+
+
+## Task ideas
+
+ * Implement (de)compression of ATLAS RAW data making use of state-of-the-art compression algorithms, such as `zstandard` and `brotli`.
+ * Study performance of the algorithms in terms of (de)compression ratio and speed, taking into account e.g. algorithm's settings as well various data-taking conditions (such as luminosity).
+
+## Expected results
+
+ * Find best suited compression algorithms for lossless data (de)compression and decompression of ATLAS raw data.
+
+## Requirements
+
+ * C++
+
+## Mentors
+
+  * **[Maciej Szymański](mailto:[email protected])**
+  * [Peter Van Gemmeren](mailto:[email protected])
+
+## Links
+
+ * [ATLAS Experiment](https://atlas.cern/)

gsoc/2024/mentors.md

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 ## Full Mentor List (Name, Email, Org)
 * Parth Arora [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CompRes
 * Jakob Blomer [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN
+* Peter Van Gemmeren [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) ANL
 * Benedikt Hegner [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN
 * Aaron Jomy [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CompRes
 * Wim Lavrijsen [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CompRes
 * Thomas Madlener [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) DESY
 * Alexander Penev [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CompRes
 * Piyush Raikwar [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN
 * Juraj Smiesko [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN
+* Maciej Szymański [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) ANL
 * Vaibhav Thakkar [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CompRes
 * Vassil Vassilev [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CompRes
 * Valentin Volkl [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) CERN