[Backport to 16_0_X (#49860)] Refactor of PortableCollections

[Electricks94]

The PortableCollections have an inconsistent interface if used with a normal Layout or with an SoABlocks Layout. In the later case, the Alpaka Queue is the first argument, while in the first case it is the other way around. This PR addresses the problem and sets the Alpaka Queue always as the first argument.

Furthermore, the constructors of the PortableCollections are streamlined to always use std::integal as the input type for the elements. Then a checked_cast has been implemented that checks if casting to int is safe. If so, the inputs are casted to int. Casting to int is necessary since the SoA Layouts use int for the number of elements due to the dependency on ROOT.

This PR has to be addressed after #49882.

If this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR. If this PR will be backported please specify to which release cycle the backport is meant for:

This is a backport of #49860 to CMSSW_16_0_X

This PR also contains commits from #49882. It is meant to be merged after #49882 since it builds on top of it

ATTN @fwyzard

@felicepantaleo fyi

[Electricks94]

type ngt

[Electricks94]

backport #49860

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @Electricks94 for CMSSW_16_0_X.

It involves the following packages:

• CalibTracker/SiPixelESProducers (alca)
• CondFormats/HcalObjects (alca, db)
• DQM/SiPixelHeterogeneous (dqm)
• DataFormats/HGCalDigi (simulation)
• DataFormats/Portable (heterogeneous)
• DataFormats/PortableTestObjects (heterogeneous)
• DataFormats/SiPixelClusterSoA (heterogeneous, reconstruction)
• DataFormats/SiPixelDigiSoA (heterogeneous, reconstruction)
• DataFormats/SoATemplate (heterogeneous)
• DataFormats/TrackSoA (heterogeneous, reconstruction)
• DataFormats/TrackingRecHitSoA (heterogeneous, reconstruction)
• DataFormats/VertexSoA (heterogeneous, reconstruction)
• EventFilter/EcalRawToDigi (reconstruction)
• EventFilter/HGCalRawToDigi (reconstruction)
• EventFilter/HcalRawToDigi (reconstruction)
• Geometry/HGCalMapping (geometry)
• HeterogeneousCore/AlpakaTest (heterogeneous)
• PhysicsTools/PyTorchAlpaka (heterogeneous, ml)
• PhysicsTools/PyTorchAlpakaTest (heterogeneous, ml)
• RecoHGCal/TICL (reconstruction)
• RecoLocalCalo/EcalRecProducers (reconstruction)
• RecoLocalCalo/HGCalRecAlgos (reconstruction)
• RecoLocalCalo/HGCalRecProducers (reconstruction)
• RecoLocalCalo/HcalRecProducers (reconstruction)
• RecoLocalTracker/Phase2TrackerRecHits (reconstruction)
• RecoLocalTracker/SiPixelRecHits (reconstruction)
• RecoLocalTracker/SiStripClusterizer (reconstruction)
• RecoParticleFlow/PFClusterProducer (reconstruction)
• RecoParticleFlow/PFRecHitProducer (reconstruction)
• RecoTauTag/HLTProducers (hlt)
• RecoTracker/LST (reconstruction)
• RecoTracker/LSTCore (reconstruction)
• RecoTracker/PixelSeeding (reconstruction)
• RecoTracker/PixelTrackFitting (reconstruction)
• RecoVertex/PixelVertexFinding (reconstruction)

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• Backported from Refactor of PortableCollections #49860

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[fwyzard]

please test

[fwyzard]

urgent

aimed at CMSSW_16_0_0

[mmusich]

+hlt

• this PR needs hlt signature only because it contains [Backport to 16_0_X (#49734)] Remove PortableHostMultiCollection and PortableDeviceMultiCollection #49882 (already signed). I guess this would have to be rebased later (or maybe not, not sure).

[cmsbuild]

Pull request #49953 was updated. @Dr15Jones, @Moanwar, @bsunanda, @civanch, @cmsbuild, @fwyzard, @hjkwon260, @jfernan2, @kpedro88, @makortel, @mandrenguyen, @mdhildreth, @srimanob, @valsdav, @y19y19 can you please check and sign again.

[fwyzard]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Size: This PR adds an extra 272KB to repository
Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-0584d7/50984/summary.html
COMMIT: 2a5cc45
CMSSW: CMSSW_16_0_X_2026-01-28-2300/el8_amd64_gcc13
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/49953/50984/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 2 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 16 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 55
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 4382508
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 14
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 4382474
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 20
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 54 files compared)
• Checked 235 log files, 208 edm output root files, 55 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: found differences in 1 / 53 workflows

[Moanwar]

+1

[fwyzard]

+heterogeneous

[mandrenguyen]

+1

[mandrenguyen]

merge