r. cherkaoui 30-31 march 2010 eu-med 3 brussels high-performance networking in the context of the...

R. Cherkaoui 30-31 March 2010EU-MED 3 Brussels

High-performance networking in the context of the ATLAS particle

physics experiment

Prof. Rajaa Cherkaoui El Moursli,

Mohammed V – Agdal University, Rabat

Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques, Morocco

Rajaa.Cherkaoui.El.Moursli@cern.ch

EU-MED EVENT 3 Conference on e-Infrastructures across the Mediterranean

30-31 March 2010 Brussels

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Outline

The ATLAS Collaboration

(LHC –ATLAS experiment)

RUPHE (Moroccan High Energy Physics

Network)

MARWAN (the Moroccan Wide Area Network)

The importance of EUMEDCONNECT for

Moroccan participation in ATLAS.

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The ATLAS collaboration

37 countries, 2100 scientists in 165 working groups across the globe

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The Large Hadron Collider

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ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS)

44 m

25 m

7000 tons

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The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)

The LHC : 15 Petabytes of data annually,

Data access ( 5,000 scientists / 500 research

institutes and universities worldwide)

Data availability: 15 years

Solution: The Worldwide LHC Computing

Grid (WLCG)

WLCG uses different operational Grid

organizations all over the world.

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ATLAS Computing Model

NDGF(Nordic countries)

EGEE(EuropeAsiaCanada)

OSG(USA)

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RUPHE (Réseau Universitaire des Hautes Energies -Morocco)

1996 : Morocco joins ATLAS experiment

RUPHE : Moroccan High Energy Physics Network

- 5 Universities: Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech,

Oujda, Tétouan

- the National Center for Energy, Science and

Nuclear Technics (CNESTEN)

with the support of the Ministry of education and the

National Center for Scientific and Technical Research

(CNRST).

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MARoc Wide Area Network (MARWAN 2)

Rabat

Casablanca

the Moroccan National Research and Education Network

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EumedConnect

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MaGrid (CNRST-Morocco)

• Support to e-science activities • connection to EGEE Grid •MaGrid Certificate Authority

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Morocco in ATLAS

1 sector

64 sectors (8 modules / sector) = 512 modules

(50000 anodes )

Mechanical and electrical test of 50000 anodes

anode 1 Module

Participation to the ATLAS electromagnetic presampler construction

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Morocco in ATLAS

the insertion of 32 sectors of the presampler at CERN.

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Morocco in ATLAS

Physics and detector simulations

Test beam (shifts, assembling, insertion, …) at CERN

Analysis of combined test beam data

ATLAS Software in Magrid Cluster

Simulated and Real Data Analysis

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New researches

Medical Physics

- Simulation with GEANT4 and GATE (scanner, accelerator) in radiology, nuclear medecine, radiotherapy

Conception and design of Detector in the International Linear Collider (ILC)

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Conclusion

ATLAS transfer of large amounts of data

The advanced connectivity will help the Moroccan community :

to explore the rich scientific potential of ATLAS

to develop medical physics

to participate to the International Linear Collider project

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THANK YOU