GridPP4: The UK Grid for Particle Physics
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.
Publications
Sheehan M
(2014)
Position statement on ethics, equipoise and research on charged particle radiation therapy.
in Journal of medical ethics
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of spin correlation in top-antitop quark events and search for top squark pair production in pp collisions at vs=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2015)
Identification and energy calibration of hadronically decaying tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment in pp collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of the [Formula: see text] dijet cross section in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
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
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
Search for supersymmetry at [Formula: see text] TeV in final states with jets and two same-sign leptons or three leptons with the ATLAS detector.
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
(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
Aad G
(2016)
Charged-particle distributions in pp interactions at [Formula: see text] measured with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Description | Deployment of grid computing networks. |
Exploitation Route | Deployment of grid computing networks. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education |
Description | Deployment of grid computing networks. |
First Year Of Impact | 2008 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
Impact Types | Economic |
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 | ATLAS |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | ATLAS Collaboration |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We build parts of the SCT detector, electronics, software etc, and we do physics analysis. |
Collaborator Contribution | They built the other parts of the detector. |
Impact | Several hundred physics publications. |
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 |
Description | LHCb |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment (LHCb) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We built the RICH detectors, electronics and software |
Collaborator Contribution | They built the rest of the detector |
Impact | Many physics publications on B-physics |
Company Name | Scidiver Ltd |
Description | |
Year Established | 2011 |
Impact | None so far. |