GridPP4: Tranche-II South Grid; Cambridge Staff Grant
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.
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.
Planned Impact
GridPP's knowledge exchange activities fall into two main areas: firstly, those aimed at other academic disciplines, and secondly, business and industry. GridPP has a strong outreach programme to a public and academic audience, and intends to continue this in GridPP4. The Dissemination Officer will organise GridPP's presence at conferences and events. This includes booking and manning booths, arranging backdrops, material, posters, screens, and rotas where appropriate. Examples of events that we have attended include The British Science Festival, The Royal Society Summer Exhibition, the British Science Association Science Communication Conference and Meet The Scientist at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
In the last 8 years GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications and won 'Best e-Science project website' at the 2004 All Hands Meeting. The Dissemination Officer will be responsible for producing news items for the website and drafting GridPP press releases. We have had broad coverage from these in the past, including many national newspapers and online publications.
Additional activities will include producing GridPP material, such as leaflets, posters, t-shirts, bags and magic cubes. We have found these very valuable in raising GridPP's and LHC's profile at minimal cost. The Dissemination Officer will also promote outreach training for members of the collaboration, will identify GridPP staff who have specific expertise in this area and will arrange occasional GridPP events, such as the QMUL opening and the Tier-1 open day.
On KE, our initial work has proved that GridPP's technology can be of use across a range of disciplines and sectors, and we plan to continue this work during GridPP4. The objectives of this program will be to improve awareness of the technologies developed by GridPP and its partners in academia and industry, and hence facilitate the increase in use of these technologies within new areas.
In the last 8 years GridPP has developed an extensive website that is central to project communications and won 'Best e-Science project website' at the 2004 All Hands Meeting. The Dissemination Officer will be responsible for producing news items for the website and drafting GridPP press releases. We have had broad coverage from these in the past, including many national newspapers and online publications.
Additional activities will include producing GridPP material, such as leaflets, posters, t-shirts, bags and magic cubes. We have found these very valuable in raising GridPP's and LHC's profile at minimal cost. The Dissemination Officer will also promote outreach training for members of the collaboration, will identify GridPP staff who have specific expertise in this area and will arrange occasional GridPP events, such as the QMUL opening and the Tier-1 open day.
On KE, our initial work has proved that GridPP's technology can be of use across a range of disciplines and sectors, and we plan to continue this work during GridPP4. The objectives of this program will be to improve awareness of the technologies developed by GridPP and its partners in academia and industry, and hence facilitate the increase in use of these technologies within new areas.
Publications
Aaboud M
(2016)
A measurement of material in the ATLAS tracker using secondary hadronic interactions in 7 TeV pp collisions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaboud M
(2017)
A measurement of the calorimeter response to single hadrons and determination of the jet energy scale uncertainty using LHC Run-1 pp-collision data with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Atlas Collaboration
(2016)
A new method to distinguish hadronically decaying boosted Z bosons from W bosons using the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aaboud M
(2018)
A search for resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a new particle X in the XH?qqbb final state with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aaboud M
(2017)
ATLAS Collaboration
in Nuclear Physics A
Romanchikova M
(2018)
Automated customized retrieval of radiotherapy data for clinical trials, audit and research.
in The British journal of radiology
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
Aaboud M
(2018)
Combination of the Searches for Pair-Produced Vectorlike Partners of the Third-Generation Quarks at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2017)
Correction to: Identification and rejection of pile-up jets at high pseudorapidity with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aad G
(2017)
Erratum to: Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at $$\sqrt{s}=8$$ s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2018)
Erratum to: Measurement of the W-boson mass in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7\,\hbox {TeV}$$ s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in The European Physical Journal C
Aaboud M
(2018)
Evidence for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a top quark pair with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Evidence for the H ? b b ¯ $$ H\to b\overline{b} $$ decay with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Evidence for the H ? bb decay with the ATLAS detector
Aaboud M
(2017)
Fiducial, total and differential cross-section measurements of t-channel single top-quark production in pp collisions at 8 TeV using data collected by the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Jia J
(2017)
Heavy Ion Results from ATLAS
in Nuclear Physics A
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
Description | This is a support award for support computing. It does not produce research findings. |
Exploitation Route | This is a support award for support computing. It does not produce research findings. |
Sectors | Education |
Description | This is a support award for support computing. It does not produce research findings. |
First Year Of Impact | 2013 |
Sector | Education |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal |
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 | 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 |