The LHC Computing Grid (LCG)
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently being built at CERN near Geneva, is the largest scientific instrument on the planet. When it begins operations in 2008, it will produce roughly 15 Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) of data annually, which thousands of scientists around the world will access and analyze.
The mission of the LHC Computing Project (LCG) is to build and maintain a data storage and analysis infrastructure for the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC.
- A related project is GridPP which 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.
EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE)
The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project is funded by the European Commission and aims to build on recent advances in grid technology and develop a service grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day.
The project aims to provide researchers in academia and industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their geographic location. The EGEE project will also focus on attracting a wide range of new users to the Grid.
The project will primarily concentrate on three core areas:
- The first area is to build a consistent, robust and secure Grid network that will attract additional computing resources.
- The second area is to continuously improve and maintain the middleware in order to deliver a reliable service to users.
- The third area is to attract new users from industry as well as science and ensure they receive the high standard of training and support they need.
Some monitoring tool
GridPP: LCG2 Real Time Monitor(RTM)http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/