Computing for UK Particle Physics Phenomenology

粒子物理现象学研究所（IPPP）是杜伦大学和STFC的合资企业。IPPP的目的是在满足STFC和达勒姆大学的国际卓越研究战略目标方面发挥关键作用。我们的核心任务是为英国和全球粒子物理社区提供战略建议，并集中和扩大国家和国际实验工作。IPPP的科学兴趣涵盖了当前粒子现象学的各个方面，从中微子和天体粒子物理，到风味物理，再到对撞机现象学和最高能量的模型构建。在世界范围内，很少有能与之媲美的现象粒子物理学研究小组。IPPP涉及的主题包括设计新的理论技术，如散射振幅计算和高阶计算，多用途事件发生器的建设、开发、验证和部署，以及新设施的可行性研究。此外，IPPP在提供和进一步发展LHC物理的工具、计算、分析和开发策略方面发挥着关键作用。IPPP在当前和未来中微子设施的领先研究中非常明显，这是另一项高度优先的努力。它还参与了LHCb夸克风味物理的实验发展。此外，IPPP对暗物质现象学及其在加速器和非加速器实验中的搜索，以及超越标准模型的物理探索做出了重大贡献。该项目将通过增加高通量计算IPPP集群的容量，确保IPPP保持在预测超高能量质子碰撞时会发生什么的发展前沿。该集群在IPPP的发展中发挥了关键作用，作为开发支持全球粒子现象学的软件的领先国际机构。IPPP的高吞吐量计算需求可以通过快速磁盘服务器和标准以太网网络计算节点的组合来满足，这些计算节点运行相同的软件平台，实验人员将最终使用IPPP开发的软件。这些要求与狄拉克等人提出的要求非常不同。

The Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) is a joint venture of Durham University and STFC.The aim of the IPPP is to play a key role in meeting STFC 's and the University of Durham's strategic goal of international excellence in research. Central to our mission is to provide strategic advice for the UK and global particlephysics community and to focus and amplify national and international experimental efforts.The scientific interests of the IPPP cover all aspects of current particle phenomenology, ranging from neutrino and astro-particle physics, through flavour physics to collider phenomenology and model building at the highest energies. There are few groups world-wide with comparable coverage of phenomenological particle physics. The topics addressed by the IPPP include the design of new theoretical techniques, such as scattering amplitude computations and higher-order calculations, the construction, development, validation and deployment of multi-purpose event generators, and feasibility studies for new facilities. In addition, IPPP plays a pivotal role in the provision and further development of tools, calculations, analyses and exploitation strategies for LHC physics. IPPP is highly visible in leading studies for current and future neutrino facilities, another high priority endeavour. It is also involved in experimental developments in quark flavour physics at LHCb. Furthermore, IPPP has made major contributions to the phenomenology of Dark Matter and its searches at accelerator and non-accelerator based experiments, and to physics exploration beyond the Standard Model.This project will ensure that the IPPP stays at the cutting edge of the development of predictions of what happens when ultra high energy protons collide by increasing the capacity of the High Throughput Computing IPPP cluster. The cluster has played a key role in the development of the IPPP as a leading international institute for developing the software that underpins particle phenomenology worldwide. The High Throughput Computing needs of the IPPP can be met with a combination of fast disk servers and standard ethernet-networked compute nodes, operating the same software platform, which is used by the experimenters, who will ultimately use the software being developed at the IPPP. These are very different requirements than those delivered by e.g. Dirac.