HENP Special Interest Group

The mission of the High Energy and Nuclear Physics (HENP) Special Interest Group (SIG) is to help ensure that the required national and international network infrastructures, monitoring tools and facilities, and collaborative systems, are developed and deployed in a timely fashion to meet the needs of the U.S. LHC Program, as well as the HENP community.

This group meets at every Internet2 Member Meeting and Joint Techs Workshop.
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Chairs
Harvey Newman, Caltech and
Shawn McKee, University of Michigan

CHARTER

Goals
1. Best Practices
2. Deployment
3. Information Dissemination
4. Network Performance Verification
5. Knowledgebase
6. Networks
7. Grid Infrastructure
8. Operations
9. Emerging Technologies

Related Activities
CERN
Large Hadron Collider
Fermi Lab
Brookhaven Lab
SLAC
Jefferson Lab
Berkeley Lab
KEK
DESY
Particle Physics Data Grid
GriPhyN
EU-DataGrid
LHC Grid

Mailing List
There is a (currently) low-to-zero volume mailing list. To subscribe, or manage your subscription, follow this link.

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What's New

LHC Circulates First Beam
September 10 marked the first-ever success in circulating a beam of subtomic particles around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. When LHC experiments begin in October 2008, terabytes of data will flow over networks such as Internet2 to thousands of researchers around the globe, including over 1700 in the United States.

LHC Workshop Series: Workshop Summary Now Available!
With the Large Hadron Collider at CERN going live in 2008, Internet2 is committed to working with the LHC community to develop a comprehensive plan for delivering to U.S. participants the vast amounts of science data this amazing instrument. To accomplish this goal, Internet2 is working with member campuses to host a series of one-day regional workshops. These workshops will provide an open dialog between the U.S. LHC participants and the various (campus, connector, regional, and national) network providers. We anticipate that this dialog will aid us in determining:
  • How scientists plan on using the experimental data, including local and remote processing of datasets.
  • How much data must be moved into and out of your University or physics lab, and and over what time scales.
  • What types of services network providers will need to provide, from shared IP to long lived dedicated circuits.
  • What steps the network providers will need to take to meet these traffic needs.

Please see the main conference page for more detail and links to the individual workshops.

ESnet and Internet2 Partner To Deploy Next Generation Network for Scientific Research and Discovery
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Internet2 announced a partnership to deploy a highly reliable, high capacity nationwide network that will greatly enhance the capabilities of researchers across the country who participate in the DOE's scientific research efforts. Learn more.

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