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
Wilson A
(2012)
The Memory of MICE: The Configuration Database
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Whall AL
(2013)
Measurement of aggressive behaviors in dementia: comparison of the physical aggression subscales of the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory and the Ryden Aggression Scale.
in Research in gerontological nursing
Walisch T
(2014)
Genetic structure of Saxifraga rosacea subsp. sponhemica, a rare endemic rock plant of Central Europe
in Plant Systematics and Evolution
Vigânico E
(2011)
Biohydrometallurgical/UV production of ferrous sulphate heptahydrate crystals from pyrite present in coal tailings
in Minerals Engineering
Vernieri C
(2016)
Search for the Higgs boson in the b b ? decay channel using the CMS detector
in Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurements of the W boson rapidity, helicity, double-differential cross sections, and charge asymmetry in p p collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Sirunyan A
(2018)
Search for pair production of excited top quarks in the lepton + jets final state
in Physics Letters B
Sirunyan A
(2020)
Measurement of the top quark Yukawa coupling from t t ¯ kinematic distributions in the dilepton final state in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physical Review D
Rand D
(2015)
Possibilities for Named Data Networking in HEP
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series