GridPP
Formation | September 2001 |
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Website | www |
GridPP is a collaboration of particle physicists and computer scientists from the United Kingdom and CERN. They manage and maintain a distributed computing grid across the UK with the primary aim of providing resources to particle physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN.[1] They are funded by the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council. The collaboration oversees a major computing facility called the Tier1 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) along with the four Tier 2 organisations[2] of ScotGrid, NorthGrid, SouthGrid and LondonGrid (formerly LT2). The Tier 2s are geographically distributed and are composed of computing clusters at multiple institutes.
As of 2012 the GridPP infrastructure spans 18 UK institutions[3] and is major partner in the UK's National Grid Initiative as a part of the European Grid Infrastructure.
Background
The original GridPP plan was drawn up in late 2000
Current state of the project
GridPP is in its fourth phase (2011–2014) having received more funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to support the LHC experiments and other users. In late 2011 the project is providing over 29,000
Members
All of the UK universities and institutions with researchers working on the LHC are members. As of 2011 the list is as follows:[12]
ScotGrid
ScotGrid is based across 3 main sites and primarily supports on-going research within the field of Particle Physics. The entire environment is monitored, maintained and developed by dedicated teams at each site, to ensure a fully operational system is available to the end user communities.[13]
NorthGrid
SouthGrid
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- University of Oxford
- University of Sussex
LondonGrid
LondonGrid is a joint collaboration of 5 institutes in the London region to provide high performance computing resources to the high energy physics community.
- Brunel University, West London
- Imperial College London
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Royal Holloway, University of London
Research supported by GridPP
Currently supported
GridPP supports many disciplines and projects. This is a list of the different experiments or projects that actively use GridPP resources.
LHC experiments
GridPP was originally created to support the experiments based at CERN using the LHC. The 4 main experiments supported are:
High energy physics
Alongside the experiments at the LHC GridPP also supports other international high energy physics experiments. These include:
Physics
- PhenoGrid a UK project investigating Phenomenology[19]
- UKQCD — a UK project investigating Quantum Chromodynamics[20]
- ITER
Other disciplines
GridPP, through the European Grid Infrastructure and its own efforts, supports many non-physics research disciplines.
- The MoSSaiC project, investigating the management of landslide hazards in the Tropics[21]
- The UK's National eInfrastructure for Social Simulation's GENESIS project which uses the grid infrastructure to simulate a populations in cities and regions in-silico.[22]
- The ENROLLER providing language and literature researchers access to text collections and computing resources.
Previously supported
Other disciplines
- WISDOM a French-based project looking at cures for avian flu[23] and malaria.[24]
- PEGASUS – Particle Physicists Engagement with Grids: A Socio-technical Usability Study, a sociology study of the collaboration carried out by the London School of Economics which resulted in a framework of qualifying guidance for others engaged in developed grids[25] as well as 15 papers, 4 posters and used in 3 MSc dissertations.[26]
- Econophysica – A small company who worked with researchers at Queen Mary, University of London looking at mathematical models for commodity trading. The work with GridPP received funding from the STFC Mini PIPPS scheme to look into the feasibility of their algorithmic trading platform being deployed on the Grid.[27]
Related projects
- LHC Computing Grid
- European Grid Infrastructure
- National Grid Service
References
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The GridPP Collaboration (2006). "GridPP: Development of the UK computing Grid for particle physics". S2CID 120881434.
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Britton, D.; et al. (2009). "GridPP: The UK grid for particle physics". S2CID 5741534.
- ^ UK sites displayed on CERN's GridMap Retrieved 2011-11-02
- ^ GridPP History
- ^ LCG Website Archived 25 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "EU DataGrid Website". Archived from the original on 31 August 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ^ "Worlds biggest virtual supercomputer given the go-ahead". Archived from the original on 25 March 2007. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ^ Coles, J. (2008). "Grid computing for UK particle physics". .
- ^ "iSGTW Announcement – Funding for GridPP3". Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
- ^ CERN's GridMap Archived 14 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011-12-09
- ^ Prof Steve Lloyd's Grid Test Jobs Retrieved 2011-12-027
- ^ GridPP Collaboration Page Archived 21 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011-11-02
- ^ "ScotGrid Overview". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ New accelerators, now just a CLIC away
- ^ Experimenting with MICE, on the grid
- ^ The forecast is for SNO+
- ^ Particle Physics: SuperB Flavour
- ^ Neutrinos: From Tokai to Kamioka to the Grid
- ^ PhenoGrid Website
- ^ UKQCD DiGS the Grid
- ^ When the result is a landslide
- ^ In the beginning
- ^ Grid searches for avian flu cure
- ^ Feature – WISDOM vs. Malaria – Round Two
- ^ "Framework of Qualifying Guidance for Building Grid projects". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ "Research list on Pegasus website". Archived from the original on 20 October 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ PIPSS Awards – 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008, Feasibility of the Grid Based Algorithmic Trading Platform Archived 12 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine