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Published on: November 15, 2013
GridPP: the UK grid for particle physics
D Britton1, A J Cass, P E L Clarke
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Abstract:
The start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, presents a huge challenge in processing and analysing the vast amounts of scientific data that will be produced. The architecture of the worldwide grid that will handle 15 PB of particle physics data annually from this machine is based on a hierarchical tiered structure. We describe the development of the UK component (GridPP) of this grid from a prototype system to a full exploitation grid for real data analysis. This includes the physical infrastructure, the deployment of middleware, operational experience and the initial exploitation by the major LHC experiments.
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