Global Accelerator Network GAN Prototyping

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Global Accelerator Network (GAN) Prototyping
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Next Steps in High Energy Physics

• Today, the field of HEP is transforming itself in
  two ways into a new period of scientific
  discovery, and into new forms of organization and
  collaboration.
• The next generation of facilities will require a
  changed paradigm, from national or regional
  facilities exploited internationally, to
  inherently global projects that will be
  fundamentally different in their basic
  organizational concepts.
• Source OECD Report of the Consultative Group on
  High Energy Physics, June 2002

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Global Accelerator Network (GAN) Essentials

• The participation in the new global linear
  collider (LC) is essential for the future of all
  participating HEP institutes.
• Within the global HEP community, broad consensus
  exists that the LC will be realized as a global
  collaboration.
• For this global project, a collaborative
  framework unprecedented in kind and scale needs
  to be found within which the participating
  institutes can work together on a peer to peer
  basis.
• The kind and culture of this collaboration needs
  to be thoroughly international from the outset.

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Developing a Concept for the Collaborative
Framework

• The development of such an unprecedented
  framework will require a very substantial
  commitment of time and manpower.
• To kick off this development process, one or more
  adequate projects need to be identified which
  would support the initial development steps.
• DESY is in the process of building the second
  stage of the TESLA Test Facility (TTF2). Although
  a considerable range of features has already been
  determined, there are various areas in this
  project which are open for collaboration (e.g.
  DAQ system).
• DESY is interested in building up GAN framework
  expertise in the construction and operation of
  TTF2.

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A new Kind of Collaboration

• Working within this collaborative framework
  requires all partners to relinquish a substantial
  portion of their individual national working
  modes and styles.
• In establishing such a collaborative framework,
  the aim must be to identify the best aspects of
  the individual working cultures via a best
  practice comparison. Those can be combined with
  new elements to form a coherent and efficient
  framework.
• The implementation of such a framework requires
  an adaptation process by all participating
  institutions which enables the joining together
  of those institutions within the newly developed
  framework.
• In designing this framework, a balance needs to
  be found between preserving the autonomy of the
  participating institutions and the necessary
  dovetailing of working procedures and structures.

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Necessary Activities

• In all participating laboratories, nuclei should
  be formed which internally promote the necessary
  development of the GAN idea and externally
  develop a joint framework.
• Focussing and coordination of all activities
  relevant to the GAN
• Creation of local competence centres for all
  aspects of the GAN
• In the creation of the GAN, we should draw upon
  useful expertise inside and outside the HEP
  community e.g.
• HEP experiments
• International Management
• Collaborative Frameworks

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Towards the Development of a Comprehensive Concept

• The project of developing the collaborative
  framework needs to be a joint venture by all
  participating institutions from the outset.
• As soon as one or more adequate projects have
  been identified, for all stages of those projects
  collaborative modes need to be developed and
  practiced, that is
• Design
• Construction
• Operation
• The basic aspects of the collaborative framework
  which need to be addressed and synchronised are
• Social aspects (e.g. virtual teams, trust,
  motivation)
• Organizational aspects (e.g. collaborative
  decision-making)
• Tools

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Implementing the Necessary Collaboration Tools

• In order to establish a GAN collaborative
  framework
• we need competent partners in the following
  areas
• Videoconferencing
• Application sharing
• Information portals
• Distributed program development, e.g.
• Remote control
• DAQ system
• Security in a distributed collaboration