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
People |
ORCID iD |
David Colling (Principal Investigator) | |
Ulrik Egede (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Chatrchyan S
(2012)
Inclusive and differential measurements of the t t ¯ charge asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Khachatryan V
(2011)
Inclusive b-hadron production cross section with muons in pp collisions at $ \sqrt {s} = 7\;{\text{TeV}} $
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Chatrchyan S
(2014)
Inclusive search for a vector-like T quark with charge 2 3 in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Chatrchyan S
(2012)
Inclusive search for squarks and gluinos in p p collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Inclusive search for supersymmetry using razor variables in pp collisions at vs=7 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Chatrchyan S
(2011)
Indications of suppression of excited ? states in Pb-Pb collisions at v(s(NN))=2.76 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Chatrchyan S
(2013)
Interpretation of searches for supersymmetry with simplified models
in Physical Review D
CMS Collaboration
(2013)
Jet and underlying event properties as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text].
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Chatrchyan S
(2012)
Jet momentum dependence of jet quenching in PbPb collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Descroix A.
Jet Multiplicity in Top-Quark Pair Events at CMS