Travel to the SuperComputing 2009 Conference (SC09); November 2009; Portland, Oregon

前往参加 2009 年超级计算大会 (SC09)；

• 批准号: 0956864
• 负责人: Harvey Newman
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: California Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2010-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0956864&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; SuperComputing; 2009; Conference; SC09

The Caltech High Energy Physics (HEP) group is awarded supplemental funds to partly support the HEP team's participation in SuperComputing 2009 Conference (SC09) in Portland, Oregon. The requested funds will partially support the five key team members from Caltech to participate in the conference, and continue its demonstrations and development of state of the art networking as well as tools and services used for data distribution and analysis in support of the US LHC program and other major programs funded by the NSF. The two largest physics collaborations at the LHC, CMS and ATLAS, each encompassing more than 2,000 physicists and engineers from 170 universities and laboratories, are about to embark on a new round of exploration at the frontier of high energies, breaking new ground in our understanding the nature of matter and space-time and searching for new particles, when the LHC accelerator and their experiments resume operation next Spring. In order to fully exploit the potential for scientific discoveries, the data produced by the experiments will be processed, distributed, and analyzed using a global grid of 150 computing and storage facilities located at laboratories and universities around the world. The key to discovery is the analysis phase, where individual physicists and small groups located at sites around the world repeatedly access, and sometimes extract and transport multi-terabyte data sets on demand, in order to optimally select the rare "signals" of new physics from potentially overwhelming "backgrounds" from already-understood particle interactions. These data will amount to many tens of Petabytes in the early years of LHC operation, rising to the Exabyte range within the coming decade. The HEP team hopes that the demonstrations at SC09 will pave the way towards more effective distribution and use for discoveries of the masses of LHC data. In addition to benefiting the LHC and other programs in data intensive science, the record- breaking results have help focused the world's attention on the primary role of HEP in the development of cyberinfrastructure, and applications for data transport and worldwide systems monitoring, as well as worldwide collaboration (for example Caltech's EVO system) with the potential of a broad transformative impact on research, education and on our handling of information in our daily lives.

加州理工学院高能物理 (HEP) 小组获得了补充资金，以部分支持 HEP 小组参加在俄勒冈州波特兰举行的 2009 年超级计算会议 (SC09)。所申请的资金将部分支持加州理工学院的五名主要团队成员参加会议，并继续演示和开发最先进的网络以及用于数据分发和分析的工具和服务，以支持美国大型强子对撞机计划以及 NSF 资助的其他重大项目。 LHC 中最大的两个物理合作项目 CMS 和 ATLAS 分别由来自 170 所大学和实验室的 2000 多名物理学家和工程师组成，即将在高能前沿展开新一轮的探索，在我们的理解上开辟新天地当大型强子对撞机加速器及其实验在明年春天恢复运行时，我们将探索物质和时空的本质并寻找新的粒子。为了充分挖掘科学发现的潜力，实验产生的数据将使用位于世界各地实验室和大学的 150 个计算和存储设施组成的全球网格进行处理、分发和分析。 发现的关键是分析阶段，位于世界各地的个别物理学家和小组反复访问，有时根据需要提取和传输数TB数据集，以便最佳地选择新物理学的稀有“信号”来自已经理解的粒子相互作用的潜在压倒性“背景”。在 LHC 运行的最初几年，这些数据将达到数十 PB，并在未来十年内升至 EB 范围。 HEP 团队希望 SC09 的演示将为更有效地分发和使用大型强子对撞机大量数据的发现铺平道路。 除了使大型强子对撞机和其他数据密集型科学项目受益之外，这些破纪录的结果还有助于将世界的注意力集中在高能物理机在网络基础设施开发、数据传输和全球系统监控应用以及全球合作（例如加州理工学院的 EVO 系统）有可能对研究、教育和我们日常生活中的信息处理产生广泛的变革性影响。