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
Aaboud M
(2017)
Performance of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker in Run 1 of the LHC: tracker properties
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the t t ¯ production cross section in the t + jets final state in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2016)
Study of hard double-parton scattering in four-jet events in pp collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV with the ATLAS experiment
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for new phenomena in different-flavour high-mass dilepton final states in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] Tev with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurements of top-quark pair differential cross-sections in the [Formula: see text] channel in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Jet reconstruction and performance using particle flow with the ATLAS Detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2017)
Searches for the Z? decay mode of the Higgs boson and for new high-mass resonances in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for pair production of heavy vectorlike quarks decaying into hadronic final states in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of W ± W ± vector-boson scattering and limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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. |