GridPP

The original GridPP plan was drawn up in late 2000{{Cite web |url=http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/timeline/#2000 |title=GridPP History |access-date=29 November 2011 |archive-date=20 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111220150335/http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/timeline/#2000 |url-status=dead }} to provide the UK's contribution to the LHC Computing Grid and the EuropeanDataGrid project (now the European Grid Infrastructure). The drive behind these projects was to provide researchers working on the LHC experiments with suitable computing resources[http://lcg.web.cern.ch/lcg/public/overview.htm LCG Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125141939/http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/public/overview.htm |date=25 January 2012 }} and to extend the use of the technology to other communities.{{Cite web |url=http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/ |title=EU DataGrid Website |access-date=29 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160831054519/http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/ |archive-date=31 August 2016 |url-status=dead }} The first GridPP proposal was accepted by PPARC, at the time the UK funding council responsible for funding particle physics related projects, and the collaboration officially began on 1 September 2001 with £17m of funding. During this first phase of GridPP (2001 to 2004) the collaboration built the UK testbed, a working prototype for a grid that was linked to other similar systems around the world. In preparation for its use as a production infrastructure it analysed real data from a wide variety of experiments being run around the world in different institutions. In 2004 it was extended until September 2007{{Cite web |url=http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/GridPP2.asp |title=Worlds biggest virtual supercomputer given the go-ahead |access-date=29 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070325034035/http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Nw/GridPP2.asp |archive-date=25 March 2007 |url-status=dead }} to bring it up to the proposed LHC switch on date. By 2007 GridPP was a fully functioning production service

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|bibcode = 2008JPhCS.119e2011C |doi-access=free}} but the LHC switch on was still a year away so in September 2007 it received a further extension from STFC, receiving £30m of funding until March 2011.{{Cite web |url=http://www.isgtw.org/announcement/isgtw-announcement-funding-gridpp3 |title=iSGTW Announcement – Funding for GridPP3 |access-date=29 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615045755/http://www.isgtw.org/announcement/isgtw-announcement-funding-gridpp3 |archive-date=15 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}

GridPP is in its fourth phase (2011–2014) having received more funding from the [http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)] to support the LHC experiments and other users. In late 2011 the project is providing over 29,000 CPUs[http://grid-monitoring.cern.ch/myegi/gridmap/ CERN's GridMap] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114123843/http://grid-monitoring.cern.ch/myegi/gridmap/ |date=14 January 2012 }} Retrieved 2011-12-09 and 25,000TB of storage[http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/ukgrid.html Prof Steve Lloyd's Grid Test Jobs] Retrieved 2011-12-027 to the worldwide grid infrastructure.

All of the UK universities and institutions with researchers working on the LHC are members. As of 2011 the list is as follows:[http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/collaboration.html GridPP Collaboration Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021051313/http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/collaboration.html |date=21 October 2011 }} Retrieved 2011-11-02

ScotGrid is based across 3 main sites and primarily supports on-going research within the field of Particle Physics. The entire environment is monitored, maintained and developed by dedicated teams at each site, to ensure a fully operational system is available to the end user communities.{{Cite web |url=http://www.scotgrid.ac.uk/overview.html |title=ScotGrid Overview |access-date=30 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426011055/http://www.scotgrid.ac.uk/overview.html |archive-date=26 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}

• Durham University
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Glasgow

• Lancaster University
• University of Liverpool
• University of Manchester
• University of Sheffield

• University of Birmingham
• University of Bristol
• University of Cambridge
• The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• University of Oxford
• University of Sussex

LondonGrid is a joint collaboration of 5 institutes in the London region to provide high performance computing resources to the high energy physics community.

• Brunel University, West London
• Imperial College London
• Queen Mary, University of London
• Royal Holloway, University of London

GridPP supports many disciplines and projects. This is a list of the different experiments or projects that actively use GridPP resources.

GridPP was originally created to support the experiments based at CERN using the LHC. The 4 main experiments supported are:

• ALICE
• ATLAS
• CMS
• LHCb

Alongside the experiments at the LHC GridPP also supports other international high energy physics experiments. These include:

• CLIC[http://www.isgtw.org/feature/new-accelerators-now-just-clic-away New accelerators, now just a CLIC away]
• MICE[http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/news/?p=79 Experimenting with MICE, on the grid]
• SNO+[http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/news/?p=1591 The forecast is for SNO+]
• SuperB[http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/news/?p=1318 Particle Physics: SuperB Flavour]
• T2K[http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/news/?p=88 Neutrinos: From Tokai to Kamioka to the Grid]
• NA62 experiment at CERN

• PhenoGrid a UK project investigating Phenomenology[http://www.phenogrid.dur.ac.uk/ PhenoGrid Website]
• UKQCD — a UK project investigating Quantum Chromodynamics[http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/news/?p=981 UKQCD DiGS the Grid]
• ITER

GridPP, through the European Grid Infrastructure and its own efforts, supports many non-physics research disciplines.

• The MoSSaiC project, investigating the management of landslide hazards in the Tropics[http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/news/?p=1629 When the result is a landslide]
• The UK's National eInfrastructure for Social Simulation's GENESIS project which uses the grid infrastructure to simulate a populations in cities and regions in-silico.[http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/news/?p=1787 In the beginning]
• The ENROLLER providing language and literature researchers access to text collections and computing resources.

• WISDOM a French-based project looking at cures for avian flu[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4977150.stm Grid searches for avian flu cure] and malaria.[http://www.isgtw.org/feature/feature-wisdom-vs-malaria-round-two Feature – WISDOM vs. Malaria – Round Two]
• PEGASUS – Particle Physicists Engagement with Grids: A Socio-technical Usability Study, a sociology study of the collaboration carried out by the London School of Economics which resulted in a framework of qualifying guidance for others engaged in developed grids{{Cite web |url=http://www.pegasus.lse.ac.uk/Outputs/Framework/HOMESocioTechnicalGrid.htm |title=Framework of Qualifying Guidance for Building Grid projects. |access-date=30 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426011042/http://www.pegasus.lse.ac.uk/Outputs/Framework/HOMESocioTechnicalGrid.htm |archive-date=26 April 2012 |url-status=dead }} as well as 15 papers, 4 posters and used in 3 MSc dissertations.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pegasus.lse.ac.uk/research.htm |title=Research list on Pegasus website |access-date=30 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020133420/http://www.pegasus.lse.ac.uk/research.htm |archive-date=20 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}
• Econophysica – A small company who worked with researchers at Queen Mary, University of London looking at mathematical models for commodity trading. The work with GridPP received funding from the STFC Mini PIPPS scheme to look into the feasibility of their algorithmic trading platform being deployed on the Grid.[http://www.stfc.ac.uk/Funding+and+Grants/1163.aspx PIPSS Awards – 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008, Feasibility of the Grid Based Algorithmic Trading Platform] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612035444/http://www.stfc.ac.uk/Funding%20and%20Grants/1163.aspx |date=12 June 2012 }}

• LHC Computing Grid
• European Grid Infrastructure
• National Grid Service

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• {{Official website|http://www.gridpp.ac.uk}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111120161529/http://www.ukngi.ac.uk/ The UK's National Grid Initiative website]

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