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The GridProfessor Steve Lloyd
Queen Mary, University of London
Steve Lloyd Big Bang Breakfast Slide 2
The Data Deluge
Collisions 40 Million times a second (40MHz)
150 Million electronic channels
Maybe 1 detectable Higgs every 500 seconds
15 Petabytes of data per year (15 Million Gigabytes)
Selectivity: 1 in 10 million million
(1 person in a thousand world populations)
Steve Lloyd Big Bang Breakfast Slide 3
The Grid
Electricity Grid
Computing Grid
Transparent access to distributed
heterogeneous resources
Steve Lloyd Big Bang Breakfast Slide 4
The Worldwide LHC Grid
GridPP – 17 UK Universities, RAL, Daresbury and CERN
261 Sites in 53
Countries
Steve Lloyd Big Bang Breakfast Slide 5
Major UK Role
RAL UK Tier-1 – International role
UK Tier-2s – Leverage University funding, Local
publicity
Tier-1: 4,500 PC Equivalents, 2.3PB Disk, 5PB Tape
Tier-2: 10,000 PC Equivalents, 2PB Disk
UKI
Steve Lloyd Big Bang Breakfast Slide 6
Other Applications
Allow use by other scientific disciplines such as Bioinformatics
Working with SMEs such as Imense, Econophysica
Steve Lloyd Big Bang Breakfast Slide 7
Further Information
www.gridpp.ac.uk
