GridPP4 Tranche-II NorthGrid-Sheffield Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
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.
Organisations
Publications
Aad G
(2014)
Measurement of the mass difference between top and anti-top quarks in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2013)
Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2016)
A search for top squarks with R-parity-violating decays to all-hadronic final states with the ATLAS detector in s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV proton-proton collisions
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Search for long-lived stopped R -hadrons decaying out of time with p p collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2016)
Measurement of the differential cross-sections of prompt and non-prompt production of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in pp collisions at [Formula: see text] and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2016)
Test of CP invariance in vector-boson fusion production of the Higgs boson using the Optimal Observable method in the ditau decay channel with the ATLAS detector.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Aad G
(2016)
Charged-particle distributions in s = 13 TeV pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2014)
Search for new phenomena in photon + jet events collected in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2016)
Search for strong gravity in multijet final states produced in pp collisions at s = 13 $$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2016)
Search for the production of single vector-like and excited quarks in the Wt final state in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector
in Physical Review D
Aad G
(2015)
Measurement of four-jet differential cross sections in s = 8 $$ \sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV proton-proton collisions using the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2013)
Measurement of the azimuthal angle dependence of inclusive jet yields in Pb+Pb collisions at v(sNN)=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
in Physical review letters
Aad G
(2016)
Combination of searches for WW, WZ, and ZZ resonances in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2016)
Measurement of the CP-violating phase ? s and the B s 0 meson decay width difference with B s 0 ? J/?? decays in ATLAS
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2016)
Measurement of D?±, D± and D s ± meson production cross sections in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Nuclear Physics B
Aad G
(2016)
A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}\;=\;8\;{\rm{TeV}}$ with the ATLAS detector
in New Journal of Physics
Aad G
(2016)
Dijet production in s = 7 TeV pp collisions with large rapidity gaps at the ATLAS experiment
in Physics Letters B
Aad G
(2016)
A search for prompt lepton-jets in pp collisions at s = 8 $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Aad G
(2016)
Measurements of four-lepton production in pp collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
in Physics Letters B
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