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CERN, the LHC and the Grid
First Tuesday @ CERN
27 September 2002
Hans Falk Hoffmann
Director of Technology Transfer and
Scientific Computing, CERN
[email protected]
CERN: where antimatter is made
CERN is about fundamental scientific challenges in Particle Physics
Front page, September 19, 2002
More Sci- Than Fi, Physicists Create Antimatter
Physicists working in Europe announced yesterday that they
had passed through nature's looking glass and had created
atoms made of antimatter, or antiatoms, opening up the
possibility of experiments in a realm once reserved for
science fiction writers. Such experiments, theorists say,
could test some of the basic tenets of modern physics and
light the way to a deeper understanding of nature [...] The new
research was conducted by physicists at CERN, the
particle physics laboratory outside Geneva.
CERN: where the web was born
Fundamental scientific challenges produce disruptive technologies
LHC – the Large Hadron Collider
The world’s largest superconducting structure
27 Km of magnets
with a field of 8.4 Tesla
Super-fluid Helium
cooled to 1.9°K
Two countercirculating proton
beams
Collision energy 7 + 7 TeV
CMS – The Compact Muon Solenoid
Four LHC Experiments
start up – April 2007
The Large Hadron Collider - 4 detectors
Requirements for data analysis
CMS
Storage –
ATLAS
Raw recording rate 0.1 – 1 GByte/sec
Accumulating data at 5-8 PetaBytes/year
(plus copies)
10 PetaBytes of disk
Processing –
100,000 of today’s fastest PCs
LHCb
Problem 1 – Cost
Problem 2 – Number of components
CERN's Users and Collaborating Institutes
637
70
4306
22
538
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87
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Europe:
267 institutes, 4603 users
Elsewhere: 208 institutes, 1632 users
CERN's Users and Collaborating Institutes
another problem?
or a solution? –
uniting the computing resources of particle physics
Europe:
267 institutes, 4603 users
Elsewhere: 208 institutes, 1632 users
LCG: The LHC Computing Grid Project
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a geographically distributed computing facility
for a very large user population of independently-minded
scientists
with independent ownership/management of the different
nodes
each with different access and usage policies
and serving multiple user communities
What you would like to see
reliable
available
powerful
calm
cool
easy to use
…. and nice to look at
What you get
Lab m
Uni x
CERN Tier 1
Lab a
Uni a
UK
USA
France
Uni n
CERN Tier 0
Italy
Japan
physicist
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Lab b
Germany
Lab c
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Uni y
Uni b
[email protected]
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LCG Leverages other
Grid & Network Projects
CrossGrid
US projects
European projects
Conclusion
CERN creates new technologies of value to Industry
- CERN’s Grid R&D may create disruptive technologies
Industry creates new technologies of value to CERN
- CERN’s Grid R&D dependent on industry’s inputs
Win-win situation for CERN and Industry to collaborate