SouthGrid Tier2 resources at the University of Birmingham
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The analysis of data from the Large Hadron Collider experiments will require global coordinated efforts in terms of hardware, software and staff. This grant will make a contribution towards this effort in particular in SouthGrid at the University of Birmingham.
Organisations
Publications
Antoniev I
(2012)
BESIII and SuperB: distributed job management with Ganga
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Dzhunov I
(2012)
Key developments of the Ganga task-management framework
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Currie R
(2015)
Recent developments in user-job management with Ganga
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Elmsheuser J
(2011)
Reinforcing user data analysis with Ganga in the LHC era: scalability, monitoring and user-support
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
| Description | UK contribution to world wide computing system for LHC |
| Exploitation Route | This computing system is being used for LHC data analysis and other large data projects |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare |
| Title | Ganga |
| Description | Provides a user interface for job management across both local and grid/remote computing resources |
| Type Of Technology | Grid Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | Dr Mark Slater and Dr Matthew Williams are active developers of the Ganga project, which provides a user interface for job management across both local and grid/remote resources. This is a software tool that has and is being used outside of particle physics, in Astrophysics, Medical physics and the commercial sector, to help users manage their computing tasks. |
| URL | https://ganga.web.cern.ch/ganga/ |
| Description | Computing conference talk (Berlin, Germany) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference talk about computing Grid application software "Ganga: an interface to the LHC computing grid", presented by Dr Matthew Williams, to a general audience of IT professionals, which stimulated increased interest in this area of research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://ep2014.europython.eu/en/schedule/sessions/54/ |
| Description | Computing conference talk (Coventry) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference talk on Grid computing application software: "Ganga: a Python interface for particle physics analysis", presented by Dr Matthew Williams, to a general audience of IT professionals, which stimulated further interest in this area of research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.pyconuk.org/ |
| Description | General support for non-LHC users of Grid computing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mark Slater provided general support for several small users and collaborations to allow them to leverage the grid resources, these include: PravDa (Beam therapy), LSST (Astrophysics), SNO+ and T2K (both non-LHC Particle Physics). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
| Description | Python training day for Computational Biology department (Birmingham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Provided a day's training on Python for Computational Biology department in Birmingham. This has resulted in greatly improved use of Python in the department. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk at Particle Physics Masterclass to school pupils |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | About 100 school sixth formers attended Particle Physics Masterclass, followed by a question and answer session. Schools often ask for staff visits |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2009,2010 |
| Description | Talk at workshop on "Big Data" (Birmingham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mark Slater presented and participated at a "Big Data" workshop that brought together professional academic and research staff from many disciplines from across the University of Birmingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Workshops on Grid and Ganga usage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Mark Slater organised two workshops on Grid and Ganga software usage to the wider HEP and scientific community in Jan 2016, Jan 2014 and Oct 2014. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2016 |
| URL | https://github.com/ganga-devs/ganga/wiki/Full-Tutorial |
| Description | masterclass Birmingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 150 students attended a range of talks including one 15 minute talk on the grid positive response to talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007,2008,2009 |