Northwest Indiana Computational Grid - Need for Grid Computing in High Energy Physics

Need for Grid Computing in High Energy Physics

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be completed in 2007, will smash particles, protons to protons with nearly the speed of light to create conditions that occurred a few seconds after the Big Bang. These collisions will happen at an unprecedented energy of 14 trillion electron volts. This is an enormous effort to attempt to answer fundamental questions in particle-physics that has boggled the minds of scientists for a long time. The theory that once was believed to explain sub-atomic interactions completely, known as the Standard Model, is now merely a stepping stone to a grand theory that would describe all physical phenomena in nature. The beam collisions would reveal physics beyond the Standard Model. Once operational we shall collect data of the order of 15 Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) every year. This data shall be used by thousands of scientists from all around the world. One of the challenges that this scenario shall pose would be to build and maintain data storage and provide analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community. The current model adopted at the LHC includes a four-tier Grid Structure which shall distribute data worldwide. Formal access to the NWIC Grid is requested, in support of these activities.

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Need for Grid Computing in High Energy Physics
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be completed in 2007, will smash particles, protons to protons with nearly the speed of light to create conditions that occurred a few seconds after the Big Bang. These collisions will happen at an unprecedented … [more]
Computational Models of Star Cluster Evolution
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High-performance Grid Computing Support for Detection, Identification, and Tracking in Sensor-Cyber
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Enhancing Electric System Reliability and Communications with the NWICG
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Large-scale Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Novel Nano-ceramic Matrix Composites
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A Distributed Active Storage Testbed for Scientific Applications on NWICG
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Enabling Scientific Collaboration using Application-Level Multicast
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September 11 WTC Attack Simulations Using LS-Dyna
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Parallel 3D Cellular Potts Model Package and its Applications
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Easy Sharing of NWICG Resources through iShare
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PURE-NX
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Docking, Virtual Screening and MD in Drug Discovery
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On-Line Biometric Data Repository
The biometrics research group at Notre Dame conducts (with support from DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, NSF, ITIC, DOJ, and UNISYS) cutting-edge research and performance evaluation of multibiometric systems. Notre Dame currently hosts the largest open research … [more]