GridPP4: The UK Grid for Particle Physics
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
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.
Organisations
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ORCID iD |
David Colling (Principal Investigator) | |
Ulrik Egede (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Bendjelid K
(2012)
Impact of intra-abdominal pressure on retrohepatic vena cava shape and flow in mechanically ventilated pigs.
in Physiological measurement
Bogomilov M
(2012)
The MICE Muon Beam on ISIS and the beam-line instrumentation of the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment
in Journal of Instrumentation
Boser Christian
Experimental searches for tHq
Buchmueller O
(2011)
Implications of initial LHC searches for supersymmetry
in The European Physical Journal C
Buchmueller O
(2011)
Supersymmetry and dark matter in light of LHC 2010 and XENON100 data
in The European Physical Journal C
Calderon A
(2015)
Open access to high-level data and analysis tools in the CMS experiment at the LHC
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Chatrchyan S
(2011)
Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in the e ? jj channel in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Chatrchyan S
(2011)
Measurement of the t t ¯ production cross section in p p collisions at 7 TeV in lepton + jets events using b -quark jet identification
in Physical Review D
Chatrchyan S
(2011)
Measurement of the polarization of W bosons with large transverse momenta in W + jets events at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Search for gluino mediated bottom- and top-squark production in multijet final states in pp collisions at 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B