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
(2017)
Probing the W tb vertex structure in t-channel single-top-quark production and decay in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for additional heavy neutral Higgs and gauge bosons in the ditau final state produced in 36 fb-1 of pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(2017)
Measurement of inclusive and differential cross sections in the H ? ZZ * ? 4l decay channel in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for top quark decays t ? qH, with H ? ??, in s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for dark matter and other new phenomena in events with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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
(2017)
Search for pair production of vector-like top quarks in events with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum in s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Top-quark mass measurement in the all-hadronic t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ decay channel at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
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)
Search for supersymmetry in final states with two same-sign or three leptons and jets using 36 fb-1 of $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collision data with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Studies of Z? production in association with a high-mass dijet system in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for new phenomena in a lepton plus high jet multiplicity final state with the ATLAS experiment using s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV proton-proton collision data
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the inclusive cross-sections of single top-quark and top-antiquark t-channel production in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the inclusive jet cross-sections in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2016)
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson produced by vector-boson fusion and decaying to bottom quarks in s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurements of charge and CP asymmetries in b-hadron decays using top-quark events collected by the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurements of ?(2S) and X(3872) ? J/?p + p - production in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of the k t splitting scales in Z ? ll events in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for direct top squark pair production in events with a Higgs or Z boson, and missing transverse momentum in s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aaboud M
(2017)
Performance of the ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker in Run 1 of the LHC: tracker properties
in Journal of Instrumentation
Aaboud M
(2016)
A measurement of material in the ATLAS tracker using secondary hadronic interactions in 7 TeV pp collisions
in Journal of Instrumentation
Jia J
(2017)
Heavy Ion Results from ATLAS
in Nuclear Physics A
Aaboud M
(2017)
ATLAS Collaboration
in Nuclear Physics A
Aaboud M
(2017)
Measurement of forward-backward multiplicity correlations in lead-lead, proton-lead, and proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review C
Abazov V
(2018)
Study of the X ± ( 5568 ) state with semileptonic decays of the B s 0 meson
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a t lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for lepton-flavor violation in different-flavor, high-mass final states in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Jet energy scale measurements and their systematic uncertainties in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for new phenomena in dijet events using 37 fb - 1 of p p collision data collected at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for Higgs bosons produced via vector-boson fusion and decaying into bottom quark pairs in s = 13 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2018)
Search for photonic signatures of gauge-mediated supersymmetry in 13 TeV p p collisions with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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
Aaboud M
(2016)
Measurement of top quark pair differential cross sections in the dilepton channel in p p collisions at s = 7 and 8 TeV with ATLAS
in Physical Review D
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
(2018)
Search for pair production of Higgsinos in final states with at least three b -tagged jets in s = 13 TeV p p collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
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)
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
(2018)
Measurement of dijet azimuthal decorrelations in p p collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector and determination of the strong coupling
in Physical Review D
Aaboud M
(2017)
Search for the Dimuon Decay of the Higgs Boson in pp Collisions at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
Aaboud M
(2018)
Observation of Centrality-Dependent Acoplanarity for Muon Pairs Produced via Two-Photon Scattering in Pb+Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.
in Physical review letters
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 |