GRIDPP PROJECT COORDINATION
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) (Collaboration)
- EPIC Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks (Collaboration)
- University College London, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) (Collaboration)
- superB Virtual Organisation (Collaboration)
- Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- London School of Economics & Pol Sci, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Hyper-Kamiokande (Collaboration)
- International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW) (Collaboration)
- LIGO (Collaboration)
- University of Cambridge (Collaboration)
- GEANT Project (Collaboration)
- MaGIC (Collaboration)
- e-ScienceTalk (Collaboration)
- OSG USA, INC (Collaboration)
- FNAL - MINOS (Collaboration)
- University of Stirling, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- European Space Agency, France (Collaboration)
- DataCentred (Collaboration)
- PhenoGrid - Particle Physics Phenomenology on the LHC Grid (Collaboration)
- Mossaic (Collaboration)
- University of Lincoln, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- T2K Collaboration (Collaboration)
- SKA Square Kilometre Array (Collaboration)
- Durham University, Durham (Collaboration)
- Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- OCF Plc, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- HEP Software Foundation (Collaboration)
- International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (Collaboration)
- European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) (Collaboration)
- University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (Collaboration)
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- EU-T0 (Collaboration)
- Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- UK Space Agency, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- NorduGrid (Collaboration)
- Biomed Virtual Organisation (Collaboration)
- LSST Corporation (Collaboration)
- DCC (Collaboration)
- International Linear Collider (Collaboration)
- e-NMR (Collaboration)
- University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Gareth Roy (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Aaboud M
(2020)
Measurement of J/? production in association with a W± boson with pp data at 8 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to two photons at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for High-Mass Resonances Decaying to t? in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
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
(2018)
Comparison between simulated and observed LHC beam backgrounds in the ATLAS experiment at E beam =4 TeV
in Journal of Instrumentation
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, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of the Inelastic Proton-Proton Cross Section at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
| Description | The primary objective of GridPP is to provide the UK share of the computing resources to the World Wide LHC Computing Grid to enable the exploitation of the Physics data generated by the experiments on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. GridPP has built the largest computational grid in the UK which has been extremely successful in meeting our MoU commitments and contributed to the discovery of the HIGGS boson. In addition many other non-LHC and non particle physics Virtual Organizations have made use of approximately 10% of the resources. |
| Exploitation Route | GridPP has also been used by many other non-LHC groups (or Virtual Organisations), to provide HTC (High Throughput Computing) that they require. We will continue to encourage and support other non-LHC groups to take advantage of this infrastructure and are developing solutions to make this easier. The resources and infrastructure in place could start to form a 'UK-T0' (UK Tier-0) site to provide HTC compute and storage for a wider community. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology |
| URL | http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/ |
| Description | The computing infrastructure developed by the GridPP project has been primarily used by the LHC experimental groups to process and analyse particle physics data. However it has also been used by many non-LHC groups from many scientific areas including Biomed (Avian Flu), Total, CAMONT, Gene analysis (BATS & Dolphins http://www.nature.com/news/convergent-evolution-seen-in-hundreds-of-genes-1.13679 ). Additionally GridPP provided computational resources to the COVID effort at both a local institutional level as well as by allowing Folding@Home workloads to be run on our infrastructure. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2001 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
| Description | EGI Council deputy UK representative |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.egi.eu/about/EGI.eu/council_members.html |
| Description | EGI Project Management Board individual elected member |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.egi.eu/about/egi-inspire/governance/PMB.html |
| Description | Engagement with the Recode FP7 project |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guidance committee |
| Description | Head the secretariat for the E-infrastructure Leadership Council |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/e-infrastructure-leadership-council |
| Description | Member of RCUK Cloud Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxcfUHTVkTU6Y2tubkVkTlEwa28/view |
| Description | National e - Infrastructure Project Directors Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | The Research Councils UK e-infrastructure Security and Access Management Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| URL | https://community.jisc.ac.uk/groups/uk-e-infrastructure-security-access-management-wg |
| Description | UK representative for the Digital ERA Forum (EU Member state forum) |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | http://e-irg.eu/related-policy-groups |
| Description | EGEE III staff funded at 5 sites |
| Amount | € 947,063 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2009 |
| End | 03/2011 |
| Description | EGI InSPIRE |
| Amount | € 1,221,750 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Start | 03/2011 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | EU Horizon H2020 project "Authentication and Authorisation for Research and Collaboration" (AARC) |
| Amount | € 124,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 653965 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 04/2015 |
| End | 04/2017 |
| Title | APEL |
| Description | APEL, also produced at RAL, is a grid accounting infrastructure and reporting system that collects usage records from grid jobs and allows formulation of a variety of reports on demand. (http://accounting.egi.eu/egi.php) |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The Rutherford-Appleton laboratory (RAL), which hosts the UK Tier-1 center, has been central in developing grid accounting for the LCG and EGEE projects, including GOCDB & APEL. |
| Title | CAMONT |
| Description | CamOnt is a virtual organisation based on gLite grid technology for the Camtology consortium which is setting up context dependent search services. It developed picture recognition algorithms through use of the Grid. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2008 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | "The analysis of large numbers of internet documents is vital for improving the performance of these document indexing processes, and ultimately leads to better search technologies. Since each document can be analysed independently, the pipelines can easi |
| Title | GANGA Grid interface |
| Description | The GANGA Grid interface was developed through GridPP funding. Now used by ATLAS, LHCb and various other groups including non-particle physics collaborations. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | complex tool widely used in collaboration |
| Title | GOCDB |
| Description | The GOCDB, developed by GridPP staff at RAL, is a database containing configuration details about all the sites in EGEE (http://www.ukiroc.eu/content/view/87/250/) and is used by configuration tools and monitoring services, amongst others. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | GOCDB is the official repository for storing and presenting EGI topology and resources information |
| Title | GRIDsite |
| Description | "GridSite was originally a web application developed for managing and formatting the content of the GridPP website. Over the past three years it has grown into a set of extensions to the Apache web server and a toolkit for Grid credentials, GACL access control lists and HTTP(S) protocol operations. " |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | "In its simplest application, GridSite uses X.509 certificates loaded into unmodified versions of web browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape or Mozilla to authenticate users, and then grants read and write authorization on this basis. HTML and text fil |
| Title | Grid middleware |
| Description | Various contributions to Grid middleware have been provided with GridPP funding. For example, some elements of CASTOR, etc. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | "Castor is an Open Source data binding framework for Java[tm]. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-SQL persistence, and more. " |
| Title | GridPP - the largest scientific computing Grid in the UK |
| Description | We have built the largest scientific computing Grid in the UK as part of the largest scientific computing Grid in the world. There are many specific aspects to this in the areas of middleware, deployment and operation to which GridPP has contributed. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | multiple impacts on industry and computing; also multiple collaborations worldwide in many sectors |
| Title | Imense |
| Description | "imense makes cutting-edge products which revolutionize the analysis, search and annotation of digital images and video. " |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2007 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | "imense pioneered an ontology based approach to visual information processing. Our flagship product Web 3.0 allows the user to "Search inside the image" The system uses computer vision technology to extract visual features from images as mathematical mod |
| Title | The Real Time Monitor |
| Description | The Real-Time-Monitor developed by GridPP at Imperial College provides a live graphical representation of the world-wide Grid. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This has proved an enormously powerful dissemination tool and has been widely used internationally, for example, being demonstrated to the King of Spain, the President of India, and the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, amongst othe |
| Title | WISDOM (World-wide In Silico Docking On Malaria), |
| Description | "An international scientific collaboration has managed to whittle down the equivalent of 420 years of work on a single PC to no more than four months, with the use of Grid computing. The project, dubbed WISDOM (World-wide In Silico Docking On Malaria), ran between 1 October, 2006 and 31 January, 2007. With the use of computers from EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE), scientists were able to analyse an average of 80,000 drug compounds each hour, in search for a drug that will combat malaria. " |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2008 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | "Up to 5,000 computers were used at any one time, generating a total of 2,000GB of useful data. More than 140 million compounds were processed by the end of the four months, and results are expected to speed up and reduce the costs involved in searching f |
| Title | biomed community |
| Description | The biomed" Virtual Organization is a large scale international and multi-disciplinary VO supporting communities from the Life Sciences sector. The VO is operated on the EGI infrastructure and accessible to all scientists with applications in the life science area that can benefit from a grid infrastructure. The VO is supported by many different sites delivering access to tens of thousands CPU cores to its users making it possible to develop highly demanding application such as the WISDOM initiative. It is also a vector for international collaboration in the area of life sciences and the creation of agile thematic VO sub-groups. Researcher affiliated to the biomed VO share storage and computing resources |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | "The biomedical applications area is a broad scientific field which has been divided in three different sectors in EGEE-II. Each activity sector has earlier demonstrated a significant usage of the grid infrastructure. The medical imaging sector targets t |
| Title | commercial cloud computing |
| Description | "Commercial Cloud Computing offerings have risen partly as a consequence of what has been demonstrated by Grid Computing in the scientific context. For example: StACC is a research collaboration, launched in April 2009, focusing on research in the important new area of cloud computing. Unique in the UK, StACC aims to become an international centre of excellence for research and teaching in cloud computing and will provide advice and information to businesses interested in using cloud-based services. See also the NGS: The prototype cloud service is expected to be available until September 2011. " |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2009 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Impacts such as StratusLab, which is developing a complete, open-source cloud distribution that allows grid and non-grid resource centers to offer and to exploit an “Infrastructure as a Service†cloud. It is particularly focused on enhancing distribut |
| Title | software releases |
| Description | Software released includes GridSite, APEL, GANGA, GridSiteWiki, R-GMA and the RTM. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | software developed and released to enhance and improve Grid structures and provision within multiple collaborations and user VOs etc |
| Description | Alice |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | ALICE Collaboration |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed, and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used to process, analyze, and simulate the data collected by the ALICE experiment at the LHC at CERN. As part of the world wide LHC computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The ALICE collaboration designed, constructed and operates the the heavy ion experiment at the LHC. Which has led to the publications of many physics papers. |
| Impact | The outputs of the collaboration are captured by ALICE journal paper and conference notes. |
| Description | Atlas |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | ATLAS Collaboration |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed, and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used to process, analyze, and simulate the data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC at CERN. As part of the world wide LHC computing Grid, this infrastructure was acknowledged as a key element in the discovery of the Higgs boson. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The ATLAS collaboration designed, constructed and operates the largest particle physics experiment ever constructed and developed reconstruction, calibration and analysis techniques that enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson and the publications of several hundred other physics papers. |
| Impact | The outputs of the collaboration are captured by ATLAS journal papers and various ATLAS conference notes. Described in the publications section. |
| Description | CERN |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP support to LHC experiments |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | LHC physics. |
| Description | CMS |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed, and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used to process, analyze, and simulate the data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at CERN. As part of the world wide LHC computing Grid, this infrastructure was acknowledged as a key element in the discovery of the Higgs boson. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CMS collaboration designed, constructed and operates a large particle physics experiment constructed and developed reconstruction, calibration and analysis techniques that enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson and the publications of several hundred other physics papers. |
| Impact | The outputs of the collaboration are captured by CMS journal papers and conference notes. |
| Description | D0 |
| Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Department | D0 Collaboration |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | DAMES |
| Organisation | University of Stirling |
| Department | School of Applied Social Science Stirling |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | "The work of DAMES involves developing four groups of social science provisions. These comprise work on: Generic services for data management operations alongside three more specialist topics in social science research: 'Grid Enabled Specialist Data Environments': Services to support handling and access to specialist data on occupations, on educational qualifications, and on ethnicity Resources to support the use of data on social care needs and its applications in microsimulation models Resources to support linking e-Health and social science database " |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | "Better understanding of how non-HEP users interface into the GRID systems, Portal development and supporting documentation generated. " |
| Description | DCC |
| Organisation | DCC |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | GridPP collaborates with DCC to assist with its study o digital curation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Anyone who can benefit from storing, managing and protecting digital data can turn to the DCC for expert advice and practical help. |
| Impact | The Digital Curation Centre is the UK’s leading hub of expertise in curating digital research data. |
| Description | DUNE |
| Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Department | DUNE |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | GridPP staff provided support for the DUNE VO on GridPP resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | DUNE staff have run jobs on GridPP resources, they are submitted through the gridpp dirac server. |
| Impact | Dune job submission is now in production |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | EGEE |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | GridPP was a member of EGEE |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | EGI is the successor to EGEE II and EGEE III - GridPP is a crucial component part of this worldwide organisation |
| Description | EGI |
| Organisation | European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | GridPP is a member of the European Grid Infrastructure |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | EGI is the successor to EGEE II and EGEE III - GridPP is a crucial component part of this worldwide organisation |
| Description | ENROLLER |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | "The Enroller project will provide an integrated online repository to enhance available electronic resources in the study of language and literature. Funded by JISC and based at the University of Glasgow, we aim to address the needs of the language and literature research communities by bringing together existing data to create an enhanced, interoperable resource. The project is a collaboration between the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), the University of Glasgow STELLA Project, the Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (NECTE) and Scottish Language Dictionaries Limited (SLD), with other partners from commerce and higher education. " |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | "Better understanding of how non-HEP users interface into the GRID systems, Portal development and supporting documentation generated. " |
| Description | EPIC |
| Organisation | EPIC Centre of Expertise on Animal Disease Outbreaks |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | EU-T0 |
| Organisation | EU-T0 |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The EU-T0 vision is to create a hub of knowledge and expertise to coordinate technolgical development, and integrate data and computing centres into a virtual Tier-0 centre, which can be more easily and transparently used by the different scientific communities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EU-T0 vision is to create a hub of knowledge and expertise to coordinate technolgical development, and integrate data and computing centres into a virtual Tier-0 centre, which can be more easily and transparently used by the different scientific communities. |
| Impact | Not yet. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | EUCLID |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Department | Euclid Consortium |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | GridPP staff effort to enable remote access to the RAL Tier-1 compute facility. Setup CVMFS to provide easy access to the group software. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff effort to configure a job submission system using Ganga, to send jobs directly to the HTCONDOR batch system at RAL. |
| Impact | RAL Tier-1 resources successfully used to process jobs for the EUCLID collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Fermilab VO |
| Organisation | Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. Lancaster and Manchester sites in particular have supported this VO. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Jobs have been run on GridPP resources. Fermilab Virtual Organization (VO) - The Fermilab VO is an "umbrella" VO that includes the Fermilab Campus Grid (FermiGrid) and Fermilab Grid Testing (ITB) infrastructures, and all Fermilab computing activities that are not big enough to have their own Virtual Organization. Broadly these include the intensity frontier program, theoretical simulations, fixed target analysis, and accelerator and beamline design as well as activities performed by the Fermilab Campus Grid administrators. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | GEANT4 |
| Organisation | GEANT Project |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | GalDyn |
| Organisation | University of Central Lancashire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project provided technical expertise and support to enable the GalDyn group to run anaylsis on the GridPP resources. Provision of CPU and storage resources. https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/users/case-studies/galdyn/ |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided a case study and new user to help test the GridPP User guide, the DIRAC job submission system and the feasability of small groups making use of the GridPP faciities. |
| Impact | "We can run our code on the Grid and are looking to move into production with tens of thousands of jobs required for our final results. It's nice to know the facility is there and quick to get setup, instead of having to worry how long it will take to get a load run!" A. Clarke, GalDyn |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | GridCC |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP collaborates with GridCC to ensure effective exchange of new developments and research progress |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Grid enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control and Computation (GRIDCC) is a project funded by the European Community, aimed to provide access to and control of distributed complex instrumentation. |
| Impact | "The goal of GRIDCC is to exploit grid opportunities for the secure and collaborative work of distributed teams, in order to remotely operate and monitor scientific equipment using the grids massive memory and computing resources for storing and processing data generated by this kind of equipment. " |
| Description | H1 |
| Organisation | Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
| Department | H1 Experiment |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | HEPSF |
| Organisation | HEP Software Foundation |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The mission of the HEP Software Foundation is to promote and facilitate the creation, maintenance and lifecycle management of high quality common software of value to HEP and beyond provide a forum for collaboration between software developers within HEP and with other sciences or endeavors; identify community goals and deliverables, and facilitate community contributions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The mission of the HEP Software Foundation is to promote and facilitate the creation, maintenance and lifecycle management of high quality common software of value to HEP and beyond provide a forum for collaboration between software developers within HEP and with other sciences or endeavors; identify community goals and deliverables, and facilitate community contributions. |
| Impact | Non yet, the initiative is in its formative stages |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | HyperK |
| Organisation | Hyper-Kamiokande |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. http://www.hyperk.org |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | ILC |
| Organisation | International Linear Collider |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | LIGO |
| Organisation | LIGO |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP staff setup a new CernVM-FS repository ligo.egi.eu has been created on the RAL Stratum-1 for the LIGO VO. Test jobs submitted from LIGO Condor instance to ARC-CE service at RAL were successful. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff effort to send setup job submission and file transfers to RAL. |
| Impact | Some test jobs successfully run and files transferred. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | LSST |
| Organisation | LSST Corporation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project is providing technical expertise and support to enable the LSST group to run anaylsis on the GridPP resources.Provision of CPU and storage resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Large Synoptic Survey Telescope or LSST is a large aperture wide field survey telescope and 3200 Megapixel camera to image faint astronomical objects, rapidly scan the sky and observe probes for dark matter and dark enegy. LSST Data Management and Simulation jobs will run on OSG and EGI. Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Collaboration is in teh early stages , having started in Q3 2015. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | LUCID |
| Organisation | Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project provided technical expertise and support to enable the LUCID group to run anaylsis on the GridPP resources.Provision of CPU and storage resources. This is part of the CERN at school programme. The GEANT4 simulation of LUCID, built with the Medipix Collaboration's Allpix software suite, was compiled on a Grid-compatible SLC6 machine and deployed using the CERN@school CernVM-FS software repository hosted on RAL's Stratum-0. GEANT4 parameter input files were generated and used to submit thousands of jobs to the Grid using the Imperial DIRAC instance. Data was stored and managed using the DIRAC File Catalog, with prompt retrieval and analysis made possible using DIRAC's metadata functionality. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided a case study and new user to help test the GridPP User guide, the DIRAC job submission system and the feasability of small groups making use of the GridPP faciities. |
| Impact | https://agenda.cnaf.infn.it/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=96&confId=609 T. Whyntie and M. A. Harrison, "Full simulation of the LUCID experiment in the Low Earth Orbit radiation environment", JINST 10 C03043 (2015) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | LZ |
| Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project provided technical expertise and support to enable the LZ group to run anaylsis on the GridPP resources.Provision of CPU and storage resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This VO will support LUX Zeplin experiment designed to search Dark Matter. Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Very early days. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Landslides |
| Organisation | Mossaic |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | MINOS |
| Organisation | FNAL - MINOS |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | Mice |
| Organisation | International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | Moedal |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Monopole and Exotics Detector at the LHC |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | NA48 |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | NA48 CP Violation Experiment |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | NA62 |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | NA62 Rare Kaon-Decay Experiment |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | NorduGrid |
| Organisation | NorduGrid |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | GridPP collaborates with NorduGrid |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | collaborative activity |
| Description | OGF |
| Organisation | OCF Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | GridPP collaborates with Open Grid Forum |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | collaborative Grid activity |
| Description | OSG |
| Organisation | OSG USA, INC |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | GridPP collaborates with Open Science Grid |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | collaborative activity |
| Description | PRaVDA |
| Organisation | University of Lincoln |
| Department | School of Computer Science |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP staff enabled the PRaVDA VO on resources. Jobs were submitted via the DIRAC instance at IC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | PRaVDA staff worked with GridPP to setup job submission, primarily for simulation work. |
| Impact | Simulation jobs have been run. Data is currently being processed elsewhere but more simulations will follow in due course. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Pegasus Project |
| Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP provided Pegasus with an opportunity to work with a large and diverse organisation, as a research project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Pegasus is a social science Project which provides feedback to GridPP on its structures and internal workings in relation to management and operations |
| Impact | The Pegasus project aims to understand the way particle physicists are constructing their Grid, and how they are introducing it into use. This is relevant for improving the usability of all Grids and for wider information systems research. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Description | SKA telescope |
| Organisation | SKA Square Kilometre Array |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | SNO+ |
| Organisation | Sudbury Neutrino Observatory |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP staff have enabled support for the SNO+ VO at the Tier-1 and Tier-2 sites. Compute and storage resources have been consumed by SNO+. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The SNO+ VO has configured a job submission system to send jobs to the Grid infrastructure, to take advantage of the resources provided. |
| Impact | Work is ongoing. Papers will be produced. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | SOLID |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | SSP VO |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | Physics and Astronomy Department |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | "Solid State Physics (vo.ssp.ac.uk) - running MPI-based CASTEP software. Supported by GridPP." |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | "MPI and CASTEP deployment and documentation. " |
| Description | Superb |
| Organisation | superB Virtual Organisation |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research support and provision of GridPP resources to investigate the construction of a very high luminosity asymmetric e+e- flavour factory. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research support and papers. |
| Impact | Research support and papers. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | UK DIRAC |
| Organisation | Durham University |
| Department | STFC DiRAC Data Centric Cluster (HPC Facility Durham) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP has provided archival tape storage to the Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC) project, at the Tier-1 centre at RAL. |
| Collaborator Contribution | DiRAC staff have collaborated with GridPP staff to ensure protocols are setup to allow secure and efficient data transfers from several of their sites to RAL |
| Impact | Successfully untilised Grid protocols to move hundreds of TB of data to the Tier-1. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Work with Data Centred on Openstack |
| Organisation | DataCentred |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Joint work on customizing Openstack |
| Collaborator Contribution | Joint work on customizing Openstack |
| Impact | Joint work on customizing Openstack |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Zeus |
| Organisation | Deutsches Electronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
| Department | ZEUS |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | biomed |
| Organisation | Biomed Virtual Organisation |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed, and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used for medical image processing and biomedical data processing. As part of the world wide LHC computing Grid |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis, and publications. |
| Description | camont |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Department of Oncology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | cedar |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Combined e-Science Data Analysis Resource for High Energy Physics (CEDAR Project) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | cernatschool |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | comet |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project provided technical expertise and support to enable the COMETgroup to run anaylsis on the GridPP resources.Provision of CPU and storage resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Muon-to-electron conversion experiment at J-PARC, which will be used by international COMET collaborators for design studies and data analysis. COMET will test Beyond-the-Standard-Model physics in a way that is complementary to the experiments at the LHC. Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data has been processed on GridPP resources at IC. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | compchem |
| Organisation | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP remote support to this VO. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research |
| Impact | "Experience of non-HEP users, access to Grid systems for this user community. " |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | e-Science Talk |
| Organisation | e-ScienceTalk |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | GridPP collaborates with e-Science Talk |
| Collaborator Contribution | GridPP collaborates with this news outlet |
| Impact | "e-Science Talk brings the success stories of Europe's e-infrastructure to a wider audience. The project coordinates the dissemination outputs of EGI and other European e-Infrastructure projects, ensuring their results and influence are reported in print and online. " |
| Description | earthsci VO |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | School of Geographical and Earth Sciences Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | "The earth sci VO supports a small Earth Science Community at the University of Glasgow who are investigating tectonic and paleontology. GridPP supports this VO." |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | Better understanding of how non-HEP users interface into the GRID systems, the management and deployment of small complex data sets, mpi deployment for the VO and interface into publicly available data |
| Description | enmr |
| Organisation | e-NMR |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | esr |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | geant4 |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | ALICE Collaboration |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | iSGTW |
| Organisation | International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | GridPP collaborates with this news outlet |
| Collaborator Contribution | dissemination of all grid-related research results and news |
| Impact | "International Science Grid This Week is a weekly online publication that provides international coverage of distributed computing and the research it supports. " |
| Description | lhcb |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment (LHCb) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The LHCb collaboration designed, constructed and operates the a large particle physics experiment at the LHC and have developed reconstruction, calibration and analysis techniques which have resulted in many publications. |
| Impact | The outputs of the collaboration are captured by LHCb journal papers and conference notes. |
| Description | magic |
| Organisation | MAGIC |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | nanocmos |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | NanoCMOS |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | "Electrical engineering research for nano cmos scale circuits. Supported by GridPP." |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | "Better understanding of how non-HEP users interface into the GRID systems, Portal development and supporting documentation generated. " |
| Description | neiss |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Department | National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | pheno |
| Organisation | PhenoGrid - Particle Physics Phenomenology on the LHC Grid |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | planck |
| Organisation | European Space Agency |
| Department | planck - Satellite Cosmic Background Radiation Project |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | snoplus |
| Organisation | Sudbury Neutrino Observatory |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Description | supernemo |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | SuperNEMO |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | t2k |
| Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | t2k |
| Organisation | T2K Collaboration |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The GridPP project developed, deployed and operates the UK Computing Grid that is used by this VO for processing and analyzing their data, as part of the world wide LHC Computing Grid. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data analysis, Data processing, Technical advice. |
| Impact | Data analysis and publications. |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | wLCG |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | GridPP is an indispensable component of the worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to data, equipment and facilities, training of staff and significant intellectual input into our research. |
| Impact | closely-coupled activity, GridPP provides services and resources to wLCG |
| Title | software |
| Description | "It is intended that all software developed by GridPP be Open Source. As a member of the European Grid Infrastructure all software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 unless otherwise stated. This licence is approved by the Open Source Initiative. " |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Copyrighted (e.g. software) |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | "Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community. One of our most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open source co-operation. " |
| Title | VAC & vcycle |
| Description | Software frame work to manage and schedule the creation of vitrual machines on a dedicated cluster (VAC) or on a standard Cloud setup (vcycle). http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/vac/ |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This is an ongoing project which promises to make opportunistic use of shared cloud services much easier. |
| URL | https://github.com/vacproject |
| Company Name | Constellation Technologies Ltd (RAL) |
| Description | "Constellation Technologies, Ltd. is a pioneer in the global grid infrastructure software. Company was registered 2007 in UK, as a result from a collaboration effort at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK and CERN, CH. It is supported by the STFC (the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council). As a start-up from academic research organisation the technology is based on the gLite grid middleware developed in European project EGEE led by CERN in Geneva in Switzerland. At the moment, gLite middleware has a high level of technology readiness that can be demonstrated by its world wide production deployment within the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and other scientific and academic projects. The company’s business is focused on the development of cloud computing tools based on open source software used by the particle physics community and the supply of related support services to commercial and academic users with large computing needs. http://constellationtechnologies.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=53" |
| Year Established | 2007 |
| Impact | "Our solution, SuperCloudTM, will allow creating pools of distributed computing resources including physical servers, virtual machines, clusters and enterprise Grids from different providers such as AWS, commercial and academic data centres. We will also provide tools for on-demand access and efficient management of the distributed computing infrastructures. At the moment the company is working on implementation of a bioinformatics toolkit for the pharmaceutical industry. " |
| Website | http://constellationtechnologies.com |
| Company Name | EconoPhysica (QMUL) |
| Description | "Econophysica is an SME working with researchers at Queen Mary, University of London looking at mathematical models for commodity trading. The work with GridPP received over £40,000 to look in to the feasibility of their algorithmic trading platform being deployed on the Grid. The money came from STFC as part of their Industry Programme Support Scheme (PIPPS) scheme. The model the company uses to trade is to predetermine the size of a buy or sell order but let the programme decide how to execute the order, i.e. when is the best time and what size of individual orders to use. There are two main factors which influence the usefulness of this type of trading, the algorithms used and execution time for these algorithms. Having previously developed the algorithms Econophysica wanted to getting the models crunched on the Grid to speed up execution time. " |
| Year Established | 2008 |
| Impact | "Lasting a year the PIPPS project was a success with Econophysica’s financial computational algorithms being adopted for Grid computing creating significant speed improvements. Also the work has attracted the attention of at least one major international financial institution who are interested in developing the work further. Econophysica gained extensive knowledge of Grid technology and has started incorporating Grid ideas into some of its other research. " |
| Company Name | Imense and Cambridge-Ontology (Cambridge) |
| Description | "imense® makes cutting-edge products which revolutionize the analysis, search and annotation of digital images and video. Founded in 2007, the company’s vision was to combine over a decade of research and development in content based image recognition (CBIR) to produce an image search system that didn’t rely on keywords or metadata. In 2008 we launched the World’s first Web 3.0 image search platform, the system revolutionized previous image analysis and search techniques. Using this unique technology, users are able to type text queries into the search engine and get precise results irrespective of whether the images had keywords or metadata. " |
| Year Established | 2007 |
| Impact | "Subsequently, using our core technology we derived a portfolio of unique and innovative products and services for Photographers; Image Agencies; Search Engines and Digital Asset Management providers. Our unique products help clients remove much of the effort of manual keywording of images, which accelerates productivity and dramatically lowers their operational costs. In addition, they enable faster and more accurate retrieval of images and video, helping clients retain and attract new customers. " |
| Description | 5th EGEE User Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Held in collaboration with EGI and NDGF in Uppsala, Sweden, April 12-15, 2010. More than 100 international attendees. GridPP had a stand and several posters to disseminated our research to the wider European community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | CERN@school Research Symposium 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Talks and lectures to stidents and teachers. Inspiring them to get involved in Science and the opportunities available through the CERN atschool projetcts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://storify.com/LFTSpace/cern-school-symposium-2015 |
| Description | CERN@school brings real research to life |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Article in the CERN courier about the use of CERN developed chips being used as satellite cosmic-ray detector by school pupils. The project VO is supported on GridPP computing clusters. Bringing CERN, science and grid computing to school students. http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/42330 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Cafe Scientifque at the British Science Festival, Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An informal talk in a local cafe given by James Jackson of Lancaster University Well attended by ~50 people with many questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Dealing with Data conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A Washbrook gave a talk 'From raw data to new fundamental particles: The data management lifecycle at the Large Hadron Collider' at the Dealing with Data conference held at the University of Edinburgh. The aim of the conference is for researchers of all levels at the University of Edinburgh to share good practice, emerging techniques and technologies, and practical examples in working with data across the research lifecycle. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://datablog.is.ed.ac.uk/2015/05/27/dealing-with-data-2015-call-for-papers/ |
| Description | GPUs in High Energy Physics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk presented by GridPP staff 'Tree contraction, connected components,minimum spanning trees: a GPU path to vertex fitting' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=7534 |
| Description | Grid Brokering Meeting, Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to introduce grid computing to the business community This was the meeting which led to Imense/Cambridge Ontology running on the grid |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006 |
| Description | Grids For Kids at RAL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Day of activities about grids and computer organized at RAL, including grid games and a tour of the Tier1. dissemination to young people about current cutting edge grid technology |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Grids and Industry talk, SUPA knowledge transfer meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Grids and Industry talk questions and discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | ICHEP 2014 - CERN@school and GridPP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The GridPP Outreach Officer gave a talk on the CERN@school project and how it enabled school children to get involved with and make use of some of the technology used by CERN, and process the results using GridPP resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://indico.ific.uv.es/indico/contributionDisplay.py?sessionId=33&contribId=837&confId=2025 |
| Description | IT Pro article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article relating to Computing Grids Knowledge exchange |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Inside Government Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The National Science and Innovation Conference: Achieving Scientific Excellence and Economic Growth will provide delegates with the opportunity to discuss and examine the future of the UK's science and research base. Delegates who will have an interest in this conference will include vice-chancellors, pro vice-chancellors, heads of research and development, business development managers, collaboration managers, directors of enterprise and innovation, directors of research and enterprise, heads of knowledge transfer programmes, research development managers and heads of technology and will be drawn from universities, knowledge transfer partnerships, science parks, central government and the private sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.insidegovernment.co.uk/event-details/science-innovation/294/ |
| Description | Inst of Engineering and Technology meeting talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to the Inst of Engineering and Technology meeting at Rolls Royce, Derby: The Big Bang Machine and its Data Processing Needs" General audience of 80. Many questions around the Grids, the LHC and the experiments." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Invited lecture at the IATUL Workshop on Data Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The Annual Workshop of the International Association of Scientific and Technological Libraries (IATUL) held at Oxford. Attended by ~80 senior academics involved with defining the Data Management stratagies at thier institutions. http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/iatul-workshop-2013 Wider awarness of the scale of teh computing problem faced by the LHC physicists and the way this was solved by the WLCG and the GridPP project in the UK in particular. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Invited talk at the British Computing Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the British Computing Society questions and discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Knowledge Transfer Distributed Computing Workshop, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop organised to promoted grid to the business community Talked to many people about GridPP collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Launch (and organisation of) Big Bang Exhibition at the Science Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GridPP work showcased at National museum and at subsequent touring locations Launch of an LHC exhibition at the Science Museum which had grid content |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Lecture at BA Festival of Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture at BA Festival of Science 14/Sep/2007. General audience including parties of A-Level students and general public. Attendance of 100. Many questions and post-lecture discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Masterclasses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Various dates in 2007 to 2013; Talks given as part of the particle physics masterclasses at QMUL, Bristol, Birmingham, Lancaster, Oxford, Warwick and UCL "All talks well attended from 50 to 100 depending on venue A few questions at each event. The Real Time Monitor is very popular. " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013 |
| Description | Presentations at ATLAS Software & Computing week |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentations to the International Atlas experiment Software and Computing Week held at CERN. https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=210658 Key involvement by UK GridPP funded staff in the international collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Press conference with Viglen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press conference to unveil new computing facilities at QMUL with Sir Alan Sugar "A successful collaboration with QMUL and Viglen with a lot of press in attendance Coverage in many national papers including The Sun and The Telegraph " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | QMUL Research and Industry Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Research and Industrial Engagement Showcase 2014 was a major event bringing together academics from across the Faculty of Science and Engineering with representatives of businesses and funding bodies in QMUL's People's Palace. Around them 40 research posters presented work on topics as diverse as early warning systems for disasters, particle scattering experiments at CERN, identification systems for CCTV, immersive shared virtual environments and using mobile phone data to track infectious diseases. Live demonstrations from academics and researchers from across the faculty showcased wide-ranging research including Real and Virtual Engagement in Realistic Immersive Environments (REVERIE), ultra-high data rate millimetre wave body-centric communications, bio-inspired smart-material-based electrically tuneable lenses, wearable smart-material-based tactile displays for virtual interactions with soft bodies, AND zebrafish behavioural analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/se/143079.html |
| Description | Session at the British Science Festival, Guildford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A series of talks at the British Science Festival showcasing the grid and the science being done on it Well attended by ~90 people with many questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Session at the British Science Festival, Liverpool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A series of talks at the British Science Festival showcasing the grid and the science being done on it Well attended by ~100 people with many questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Stand at British Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Type Of Presentation | Poster Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A day long stand at the popular British Science Festival "Discussed the collaboration and the grid with ~100 people Talked to a lot of people from primary school level to retirees " |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Sunday Times: superfast internet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Highlights GridPP's use of very fast networks none |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Talk to Engineers in Barrow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Engineers were made aware of the possibilities of massively distributed computing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Talks given at CHEP2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Members of GridPP presented tals at the International Computing in High Energy Physics conference held in Amsterdam. http://www.chep2013.org/ GridPP staff presenting inovative research on posible future computing architectures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | The Alchemist's Cafe, Dublin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Pub talk to audience of 20 Several questions about Grids. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | The power behind the CERN - Linux Format Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Extensive feature covering the use of open source software and Linux in Grid computing for the LHC at CERN. Follwing interviews with GridPP staff. Wider dissemination about the GridPP project and it's involvement in the LHC Computing Grid. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Times:Grid |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | Paper Presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper article on the Computing Grid publicity |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |