e-Science projects in the HEP group

e-Science activities in the HEP group

This is a list of (partly overlapping) e-Science projects the HEP group at UCL is involved in. It is still under construction and may be incomplete.

ATLAS The UK e-Science programme is funding three posts at UCL to to develop software for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Work includes development of Atlfast, JiveXML, Atlantis and RTT.
CEDAR Combined E-science Data Analysis Resource. With funding from the PPARC e-Science programme, physicists and software engineers at UCL and Durham are building on the HEPDATA and JetWeb projects to develop a unified facility for storing and accessing particle physics data and tuning and validating theoretical models. Related projects within CEDAR include the development of HepML, a standardised data format for HEPDATA records and for Monte Carlo generator configurations, and the HepForge development environment for high energy physics software.
EGEE Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
ESLEA Exploitation of Switched Lightpaths for E-science Applications. The ESLEA project is exploiting the UKLight switched circuit optical network for applications including Particle Physics, Radio Astronomy, Computational Science and e-Health. The UCL HEP group is involved in using UKLight to transfer data from the CDF experiment at Fermilab to the UK.
GridPP

GridPP is a collaboration of particle physicists and computer scientists from the UK and CERN, who are building a computing Grid for particle physics. GridPP is funded by PPARC as part of its e-Science Programme.

NETSYS The inter-departmental Networked Systems Research and Development Group (NETSYS) at UCL is recognised as a UK e-Science Centre of Excellence in networked systems. Work carried out by members of the HEP group includes research and development of protocols for guaranteeing bandwidth and quality of service in the MBNG (Managed Bandwidth Next Generation) project, and using RGMA (Relational Grid Management Architecture) for networking monitoring.