New Sources of funding for HEP Computing

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New Sources of funding for HEP Computing

• John Gordon

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New Money?

• Joint Research Equipment Initiative (JREI)
• The aim of JREI is to contribute to the physical
  research infrastructure and to enable
  high-quality research to be undertaken,
  particularly in areas of basic and strategic
  priority for science and technology, such as
  those identified by Foresight. 99M in 1999, the
  4th round
• Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF)
• 700M over three years
• The money will enable universities to finance
  essential building, refurbishment and equipment
  projects to ensure that they remain at the
  forefront of international scientific research.

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Particle Physics Bids

• BaBar JREI 98
• LHCb JREI 98
• CDF JIF 98
• BaBar JIF 99
• LHCb JREI 99
• UKQCD JIF (??)
• LHC JIF late 99

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Particle Physics Bids

• BaBar JREI 98 - awarded
• 800K for disk and servers at 10 UK sites
• 12.5TB RAID 10GB usable
• Sun won tender, installation soon
• LHCb JREI 98
• CDF JIF 98
• BaBar JIF 99
• LHCb JREI 99
• UKQCD JIF (??)

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Particle Physics Bids

• BaBar JREI 98
• LHCb JREI 98 - awarded
• MAP - Montecarlo Array Processor
• 300 Linux PCs in custom-built chassis
• CDF JIF 98
• BaBar JIF 99
• LHCb JREI 99
• UKQCD JIF (??)
• LHC JIF late 99

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Particle Physics Bids

• BaBar JREI 98
• LHCb JREI 98
• CDF JIF 98 - submitted December 98
• postponed until next round
• T-Quarc
• at FNAL, 10TB disk, 4 SMP workstations
• at RAL, 5TB disk, 5TB tape, SMP and line to FNAL
• at 4 univs, single cpu machine and 1.7TB of disk

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Particle Physics Bids

• BaBar JREI 98
• LHCb JREI 98
• CDF JIF 98
• BaBar JIF 99 - submitted April 99
• Line to SLAC
• computers for analysis, big SMP at RAL, smaller
  SMPs at each site, Linux farm(s) for suimulation.
• LHCb JREI 99

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Particle Physics Bids

• BaBar JREI 98
• LHCb JREI 98
• CDF JIF 98
• BaBar JIF 99
• LHCb JREI 99 - submitted May 99
• 40 PCs with 1TB of disk each
• to store data generated by MAP and analyse it.
• UKQCD JIF (??)

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Particle Physics Bids

• BaBar JREI 98
• LHCb JREI 98
• CDF JIF 98
• BaBar JIF 99
• LHCb JREI 99
• UKQCD JIF
• only a rumour
• LHC JIF late 99

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Particle Physics Bids

• LHC JIF - still a plan
• Atlas, CMS, and LHCb are considering their future
  UK computing requirements
• Considering a joint JIF bid for an LHC Regional
  Centre.
• Meeting in late June

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Regional Centre

• Typically 10-20 of CERN capacity for each
  experiment
• Ship all reconstructed data (100TB/year) from
  CERN to RC
• Store current year on disk
• Universities either take subsets of data from
  RAL, or process it there. (probably both)
• PBs of tape, 100s of TB of disk, hundreds of
  boxes.