CERN in SEEGRID CERN

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CERN in SEE-GRID CERN
Athens, 17 May 2004
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What is CERN?

• CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear
  Research (www.cern.ch)
• The world's largest particle physics laboratory
• ... where the web was born!
• Founded in 1954 (50 years this year!)
• One of Europe's first truly international joint
  ventures
• Now includes 20 Member States

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What does CERN do?

• CERN explores what matter is made of, and
• what forces hold it together
• CERN hosts High-Energy Physics Experiments
• Builds particle accelerators in a 28 Km
  circumference tunnel
• Leader in Grid middleware development and
  deployment
• Co-ordinator of the EGEE project (see later
  presentation)

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
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Large Hadron Collider (2)

• Will be the most powerful instrument ever built
  to investigate the properties of particles
• LHC will investigate what matter is made of and
  what holds it together
• LHC will change our view of the Universe
• LHC will enable several hundred scientists to
  share data
• And will generate 10 Petabytes (101015 ) of
  data per year (equivalent to a stack of CDs 20 km
  high!!)

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CERN in SEE-GRID

• Leading role in Pan-European Grid Initiatives
• Provide guidance to ensure that the research and
  the progress which will take place in the region
  will keep pace with the developments in the rest
  of Europe
• Assisted by the common partners to EGEE (GRNET,
  CLPP, ICI, and SZTAKI) and other consortium
  members, will disseminate experience and know-how
  to the region
• Coordinate the EGEE and SEE-GRID developments
• Leading partner in the requirements capture phase
• Help in assessing the current Grid knowledge and
  expertise in the region

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CERN in SEE-GRID (2)

• Assess the current and future infrastructure
  needs of the NGIs involved
• Provide the state-of-the-art in e-Infrastructure
  components
• Propose technological solutions and roadmaps for
  the NGIs
• Contribute to the migration of the Grid
  middleware components
• Assist the NGIs in accessing the EGEE developed
  applications

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CERN in SEE-GRID (3)

• Contribute in transferring the training material
  to the Grid communities in the region
• Open wherever possible the EGEE training events
  to the SEE-GRID partnership
• Deliverables
• D2.2 Technological roadmap for the SEE-GRID
  National Grid Initiatives (delivery M06)
• D1.2 SEE-GRID acceptable use policy(delivery
  M10)

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Want more?

• CERN Grid contacts
• Fabrizio Gagliardi (Fabrizio.Gagliardi_at_cern.ch)
  EGEE Project Director
• Bob Jones (Bob.Jones_at_cern.ch)
• EGEE Technical Director
• Roberta Faggian (Roberta.Faggian_at_cern.ch)
• EGEE related projects Section Leader