[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 14:00

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Date/Time: Thu 2006-06-08 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   David Britton (Imperial College)

Title:     Grids: The Hope, the Hype, and the Hangover

Abstract: For the past five years, an increasingly global effort has been underway to deploy a Computing Grid to handle the enormous flow of data expected from the LHC detectors. The challenge is unprecedented: At the design luminosity of 800,000,000 proton-proton interactions per second, the 100,000,000 electronic channels embedded in each of the four detectors will produce around 10 Petabytes of data per year. Buried in that landslide of data, perhaps at the level of 1 part in 10^13, physicists hope to find the rare signature of a Higgs particle. The Hope is that Grids provide a solution to the LHC computing challenge that is affordable, scalable, flexible, robust, politically acceptable, and technically possible. The Hype is a natural part of the cycle that has followed from the necessity to sell the concept at many levels. Excellent progress has been made and, in the UK, GridPP has deployed a production Grid of over 4000 CPUs and 0.65PB of storage at 16 different sites as part of the world-wide LHC computing Grid. However, there is inevitably a gulf between the  Hype and  the reality that, as we lead into the LHC data era, must be carefully managed to avoid a Hangover and to ensure that the very real successes are not overshadowed.


Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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