GridPP5 Northgrid-Lancaster staff grant 2015-2020

这项提案是应STFC 2014年的邀请提交的，旨在为利用英国的大型强子对撞机数据提供和运营一个计算网格。当前GridPP合作的成功将建立在此基础上，英国对2016年4月至2020年3月期间产生的大型强子对撞机数据的反应将是确保有一个可持续的基础设施，提供“粒子物理的分布式计算”。我们建议运营一个分布式高通量计算服务，作为向英国粒子物理界提供超大规模计算资源的主要机制。这一基础将为英国物理学家的成功奠定基础，并增加他们的发现潜力。我们将提供产品质量的服务，提供健壮性、规模和功能。该提议与国际项目完全融合，我们必须利用这个机会，利用英国在几个领域已经确立的领导地位。粒子物理分布式计算服务将越来越多地与国家和国际倡议相结合。该项目将跨多个领域进行管理，并将兑现英国对全球大型强子对撞机计算网格(WLCG)的承诺，并确保全球活动直接造福英国。到2015年，英国网格基础设施的规模将扩大到50,000个核心，具有超过35 PB的存储空间。这将使英国能够以具有国际竞争力的方式利用大型强子对撞机的独特物理潜力。

This proposal, submitted in response to the 2014 invitation from STFC, aims to provide and operate a computing Grid for the exploitation of LHC data in the UK. The success of the current GridPP Collaboration will be built upon, and the UK's response to production of LHC data in the period April 2016 to March 2020 will be to ensure that there is a sustainable infrastructure providing "Distributed Computing for Particle Physics"We propose to operate a distributed high throughput computational service as the main mechanism for delivering very large-scale computational resources to the UK particle physics community. This foundation will underpin the success and increase the discovery potential of UK physicists. We will operate a production-quality service, delivering robustness, scale and functionality. The proposal is fully integrated with international projects and we must exploit the opportunity to capitalise on the UK leadership already established in several areas. The Particle Physics distributed computing service will increasingly be integrated with national and international initiatives.The project will be managed across various domains and will deliver the UK's commitment to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) and ensure that worldwide activities directly benefit the UK.By 2015, the UK Grid infrastructure will have expanded in size to 50,000 cores, with more than 35 PetaBytes of storage. This will enable the UK to exploit, in an internationally competitive way, the unique physics potential of the LHC.