GridPP4: Tranche-II South Grid; Cambridge Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This proposal, submitted in response to the 2009 invitation from STFC, aims to provide and operate a computing Grid for the exploitation of LHC data in the UK. The success of the current GridPP Collaboration will be built upon, and the UK's response to production of LHC data in the period April 2011 to March 2015 will be to ensure that there is a sustainable infrastructure providing "Computing in the LHC era"
We propose to operate a Grid as the main mechanism for delivering very large-scale computational resources to the UK particle physics community. This foundation will underpin the success and increase the discovery potential of UK physicists. We will operate a production-quality Grid, delivering robustness, scale and functionality. The proposal is fully integrated with international projects and we must exploit the opportunity to capitalise on the UK leadership already established in several areas. The Particle Physics Grid will form a central part of the UK National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) that will be integrated with the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and which will inter-operate with Grids in the United States and elsewhere. The project will be managed across various domains and will deliver the UK's commitment to the worldwide LHC Computing Grid (wLCG) and ensure that worldwide activities directly benefit the UK.
By 2015, the UK Grid infrastructure will have expanded in size to 40,000 cores, with more than 60 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC.
A total request is made for £27.8m for a four year GridPP4 project starting in April 2011.
We propose to operate a Grid as the main mechanism for delivering very large-scale computational resources to the UK particle physics community. This foundation will underpin the success and increase the discovery potential of UK physicists. We will operate a production-quality Grid, delivering robustness, scale and functionality. The proposal is fully integrated with international projects and we must exploit the opportunity to capitalise on the UK leadership already established in several areas. The Particle Physics Grid will form a central part of the UK National Grid Infrastructure (NGI) that will be integrated with the European Grid Initiative (EGI) and which will inter-operate with Grids in the United States and elsewhere. The project will be managed across various domains and will deliver the UK's commitment to the worldwide LHC Computing Grid (wLCG) and ensure that worldwide activities directly benefit the UK.
By 2015, the UK Grid infrastructure will have expanded in size to 40,000 cores, with more than 60 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC.
A total request is made for £27.8m for a four year GridPP4 project starting in April 2011.
Planned Impact
GridPP's knowledge exchange activities fall into two main areas: firstly, those aimed at other academic disciplines, and secondly, business and industry. GridPP has a strong outreach programme to a public and academic audience, and intends to continue this in GridPP4. The Dissemination Officer will organise GridPP's presence at conferences and events. This includes booking and manning booths, arranging backdrops, material, posters, screens, and rotas where appropriate. Examples of events that we have attended include The British Science Festival, The Royal Society Summer Exhibition, the British Science Association Science Communication Conference and Meet The Scientist at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
In the last 8 years GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications and won 'Best e-Science project website' at the 2004 All Hands Meeting. The Dissemination Officer will be responsible for producing news items for the website and drafting GridPP press releases. We have had broad coverage from these in the past, including many national newspapers and online publications.
Additional activities will include producing GridPP material, such as leaflets, posters, t-shirts, bags and magic cubes. We have found these very valuable in raising GridPP's and LHC's profile at minimal cost. The Dissemination Officer will also promote outreach training for members of the collaboration, will identify GridPP staff who have specific expertise in this area and will arrange occasional GridPP events, such as the QMUL opening and the Tier-1 open day.
On KE, our initial work has proved that GridPP's technology can be of use across a range of disciplines and sectors, and we plan to continue this work during GridPP4. The objectives of this program will be to improve awareness of the technologies developed by GridPP and its partners in academia and industry, and hence facilitate the increase in use of these technologies within new areas.
In the last 8 years GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications and won 'Best e-Science project website' at the 2004 All Hands Meeting. The Dissemination Officer will be responsible for producing news items for the website and drafting GridPP press releases. We have had broad coverage from these in the past, including many national newspapers and online publications.
Additional activities will include producing GridPP material, such as leaflets, posters, t-shirts, bags and magic cubes. We have found these very valuable in raising GridPP's and LHC's profile at minimal cost. The Dissemination Officer will also promote outreach training for members of the collaboration, will identify GridPP staff who have specific expertise in this area and will arrange occasional GridPP events, such as the QMUL opening and the Tier-1 open day.
On KE, our initial work has proved that GridPP's technology can be of use across a range of disciplines and sectors, and we plan to continue this work during GridPP4. The objectives of this program will be to improve awareness of the technologies developed by GridPP and its partners in academia and industry, and hence facilitate the increase in use of these technologies within new areas.
Publications
Aaboud M
(2017)
Top-quark mass measurement in the all-hadronic t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ decay channel at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for photonic signatures of gauge-mediated supersymmetry in 13 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of jet fragmentation in Pb+Pb and pp collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2018)
Combination of the Searches for Pair-Produced Vectorlike Partners of the Third-Generation Quarks at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for new phenomena in events containing a same-flavour opposite-sign dilepton pair, jets, and large missing transverse momentum in [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] collisions with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of W W / W Z ? l ? q q ' production with the hadronically decaying boson reconstructed as one or two jets in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with ATLAS, and constraints on anomalous gauge couplings.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for minimal supersymmetric standard model Higgs Bosons H / A and for a [Formula: see text] boson in the [Formula: see text] final state produced in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Higgs or Z boson, and missing transverse momentum in s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for dark matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for new phenomena in dijet events using 37 fb - 1 of p p collision data collected at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for dark matter and other new phenomena in events with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Fiducial, total and differential cross-section measurements of t-channel single top-quark production in pp collisions at 8 TeV using data collected by the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of the W±Z boson pair-production cross section in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the [Formula: see text] channel in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for new phenomena in different-flavour high-mass dilepton final states in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] Tev with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for dark matter at [Formula: see text] in final states containing an energetic photon and large missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2016)
A measurement of material in the ATLAS tracker using secondary hadronic interactions in 7 TeV pp collisions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaboud M
(2017)
Probing the W tb vertex structure in t-channel single-top-quark production and decay in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the inclusive jet cross-sections in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the cross section for inclusive isolated-photon production in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the W+W- production cross section in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for the Higgs boson produced in association with a W boson and decaying to four b-quarks via two spin-zero particles in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for new resonances in events with one lepton and missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2017)
Performance of the ATLAS track reconstruction algorithms in dense environments in LHC Run 2.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for lepton-flavor violation in different-flavor, high-mass final states in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for new phenomena in a lepton plus high jet multiplicity final state with the ATLAS experiment using s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV proton-proton collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of jet activity produced in top-quark events with an electron, a muon and two b-tagged jets in the final state in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13$$ s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for supersymmetry in final states with two same-sign or three leptons and jets using 36 fb-1 of $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collision data with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2018)
A search for resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a new particle X in the XH?qqbb final state with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2018)
Erratum to: Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7\,\hbox {TeV}$$ s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for triboson [Formula: see text] production in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the W boson polarisation in [Formula: see text] events from pp collisions at [Formula: see text] = 8 TeV in the lepton + jets channel with ATLAS.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a t lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for additional heavy neutral Higgs and gauge bosons in the ditau final state produced in 36 fb-1 of pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2018)
Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of jet pT correlations in Pb + Pb and pp collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of W ± W ± vector-boson scattering and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the k t splitting scales in Z ? ll events in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the inclusive cross-sections of single top-quark and top-antiquark t-channel production in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Performance of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker in Run 1 of the LHC: tracker properties
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurements of charge and CP asymmetries in b-hadron decays using top-quark events collected by the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
| Description | This is a support award for support computing. It does not produce research findings. |
| Exploitation Route | This is a support award for support computing. It does not produce research findings. |
| Sectors | Education |
| Description | This is a support award for support computing. It does not produce research findings. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
| Sector | Education |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
| Description | Clinical and Translational Research Committee Programme award |
| Amount | £1,226,417 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | C8857/A13405 |
| Organisation | Cancer Research UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2012 |
| End | 02/2017 |
| Description | GridPP |
| Organisation | Queen Mary University of London |
| Department | GRIDPP3 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We run the Cambridge Tier 2 and write software like Ganga |
| Collaborator Contribution | They run the rest of the Grid |
| Impact | Scidiver Voxtox |