ATLAS heavy ion event with asymmetric jets

ATLAS Computing and Muon Calibration Center

News

HEPiX may be coming to UM in Fall 2013!

2012 US ATLAS Workshop at UM August 13-15

Current Statistics

We have 5181 Condor jobs (4501 running, 620 idle, 60 held)

Total Slots 4624

Detailed status page

ATLAS Computing

AGLT2 Compute and Storage Nodes

AGLT2 provides more than 4500 CPU cores and 2.2 Petabytes of storage for ATLAS physics computing. Site infrastructure services for job management, storage management, and interfacing with the ATLAS computing cloud are managed at UM and computing/storage resources are located both at UM and at MSU.

To outside users of our site we appear as one entity. The collaboration between UM and MSU allows our site to provide double the resources than would otherwise be possible and increase our redundancy in the event that either site is unavailable.

ATLAS Muon System Calibration

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To determine calibration compensations for ATLAS Monitored Drift Tubes a special data stream is sent to calibration centers in Michigan, Rome, and Munich.

Storage, CPU, and human resources at AGLT2 are dedicated to MDT calibration including dedicated hosts to process calibration data, a database replicated to CERN, and custom AGLT2 authored tools. The ATLAS calibration process occurs every day there is a beam in the LHC.

SuperComputing

SuperComputing Conference

The International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis.

Check back later for news of our upcoming participation in SC12 November 10-16 in Salt Lake City, Utah!

In 2011 AGLT2 participated in the SuperComputing conference Nov 12-18 in Seattle. AGLT2 has participated in SC yearly since 2005. During the most recent event AGLT2 was able to demonstrate 40Gb/s data flows to the conference floor from Ann Arbor.

ATLAS - A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS

ATLAS Detector

ATLAS is a physics detector inside the Large Hadron Collider located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Our site provides computational power to process ATLAS data.

DYNES

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The Dynamic Network System (DYNES) is a nationwide cyber-instrument spanning about 40 US universities and 11 Internet2 connectors.

A collaborative team including Internet2, Caltech, University of Michigan, and Vanderbilt University will work with regional networks and campuses to support large, long-distance scientific data flows in the LHC and other leading programs in data intensive science.

UM's roles in the collaboration include designing provisioning systems for network switches and computer hardware, provisioning network hardware for sites, and centralized monitoring/control infrastructure.

Ultralight

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An Ultrascale Information System for Data Intensive Research.


UltraLight is a collaboration of experimental physicists and network engineers whose purpose is to provide the network advances required to enable petabyte-scale analysis of globally distributed data. AGLT2 is part of that collaboration and often utilizes technology or software advances originating in Ultralight.