Welcome to the first meeting ALICE-EELAin CIEMAT

4/May/2006

In the name of CIEMAT we wish to greet the representatives from

-The experiment ALICE (LHC, CERN) : Federico Carminati (CERN) Yves Schutz (CERN-CNRS) Ernesto Lopez Torres (CEADEN-CERN)-The IT Division (CERN) : Patricia Mendez (IT-CERN)-The department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Santiago de Compostela : Carlos Pajares Nestor Armesto-The CETA center of Trujillo : Miguel Cárdenas

EELA

E-infrastructure shared betweenEurope and Latin America

Participants

From CERN Federico Carminati. ALICE Computing Project Leader (CERN) Yves Schutz. Offline Coordinator (CERN-CNRS) Ernesto López Torres. Leader of the CEADEN-ALICE team (Cuba-CERN) Patricia Méndez. Link person IT-LCG with ALICE ( IT/PSS,CERN )

From the University of Santiago de Compostela Carlos Pajares. Professor on theoretical physics. (USC) Néstor Armesto. Researcher “Ramón y Cajal”. (USC)

From CETA (Trujillo)

Miguel Cárdenas. Scientific Director. (CETA)

From CIEMAT: Jesús Casado. EELA project coordinator. Nicanor Colino. EELA Work Package 2 Deputy Manager (*) Fernando Blanco. Responsible of Informatic Systems. Rafael Mayo. EELA Work Package 3 Manager. (**) Pedro Ladrón de Guevara. Researcher

(*) WP 2 : Pilot Test Bed Operation and Support (**) WP 3 : Identification and Support of GRID Enhanced Applications

CIEMAT. Avenida Complutense 22.

Our aim is to discuss and agree the conditions in which an actual collaboration with ALICE, in

the EELA context, can be started at CIEMAT and CETA centers.

AgendaThursday 4/May

09:40-09:45 Introduction. P. Ladrón de Guevara (moderator) 09:45-10:00 CETA-CIEMAT, a new E-Science Center M. Cardenas (CETA)10:00-10:05 Commens-questions10:05-11:35 The ALICE computing model F. Carminati ( PH, CERN)11:35-11:45 Comments-questions11:45-12:00 Coffee break12:00-12:15 Interplay between LCG and ALICE environment P. Mendez. (IT,CERN)12:15-12:20 Comments-questions12:20-12:35 The EELA project in CIEMAT R. Mayo (CIEMAT)12:35-12:40 Comments-questions12:40-13:10 Discussion. Moderator: N. Colino. Everybody

14:00-15:45 Lunch with Juan Antonio Rubio, General Director of CIEMAT and with Ramón Gavela, Director of Technology Department.

15:45-16:30 The ALICE physics. Y. Schutz ( CERN-CNRS)16:30-17:00 Hard processes in heavy ion collisions: from RHIC to the LHC N. Armesto (USC) 17:00-17:30 String percolation C. Pajares (USC)17:30-17:45 coffee break 17:45-18:30 Discusion about physics program (closed session) : Moderator: Y. Schutz.

Friday 5/May

10:00-12:00 A.O.B. (buffer for pending matters)

TalksThursday 4/May

09:45-10:00 CETA-CIEMAT, a new E-Science Center M. Cardenas (CETA)http://documents.eu-eela.org/getfile.py?docid=132&name=CETA%20Centro%20Extreme%C3%B1o%20de%20Tecnolog%C3%ADa%20Avanzada&format=ppt&version=1

10:05-11:35 The ALICE computing model F. Carminati ( PH, CERN)http://documents.eu-eela.org/getfile.py?docid=131&name=The%20ALICE%20Computing&format=ppt&version=1

12:00-12:15 Interplay between LCG and ALICE environment P. Mendez. (IT,CERN)http://documents.eu-eela.org/getfile.py?docid=130&name=Interplay%20between%20LCG%20and%20ALICE%20Environment&format=ppt&version=1

12:20-12:35 The EELA project in CIEMAT R. Mayo (CIEMAT)http://documents.eu-eela.org/getfile.py?docid=129&name=The%20EELA%20Project%20in%20CIEMAT&format=ppt&version=1

15:45-16:30 The ALICE physics. Y. Schutz ( Cern, CNRS)http://documents.eu-eela.org/getfile.py?docid=128&name=ALICE%20A%20Large%20Ion%20Collider%20Experiment&format=ppt&version=1

16:30-17:00 Hard processes in heavy ion collisions: from RHIC to the LHC N. Armesto (USC) http://documents.eu-eela.org/getfile.py?docid=127&name=Hard%20processes%20in%20heavy%20ion%20collisions%20from%20RHIC%20to%20the%20LHC&format=ppt&version=1

17:00-17:30 String percolation C. Pajares (USC)http://documents.eu-eela.org/getfile.py?docid=126&name=String%20Percolation&format=pdf&version=1

Conclusions

1- The three presentations about ALICE and the related exchanges of ideasshowed that the EELA project is ready to accept the ALICE applications. 2- The presentation of the CETA Scientific Director and further discussions helped to state the timetable of the availability of its resources for the ALICE applications. The CETA center and the bandwidth connection with CIEMAT are expected to be fully operational by fall 2007. Until this date, the more important part of theresources will be operational in CIEMAT.

3- The presentation of the EELA Project Coordinator and the WP3 manager and further discusions assured that CIEMAT will have capacity to run a sizeablepart of the resources by next June.

4- The presentations about ALICE physics from CERN and USC gave an orientation to the physics to be developped in CIEMAT.

5- The above points gave way to a request from CIEMAT to join the ALICE Collaboration and it has been submitted to the ALICE Management Board.