Description
The High-Energy Physics (HEP) community is one of the pilot application domains in EGEE, and is the largest user of its grid infrastructure. By their nature HEP applications are very demanding and due to this fact these applications serve as a powerful role in understanding and improving EGEE delivered services. The HEP experiments also produce high-level middleware components than often become valuable prototypes for the overall grid community. The expertise developed by HEP users is open to the other EGEE grid users. This kind of applications are an important driving force within the EGEE project and promotes progress across many scientific disciplines.
The four Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) at CERN will begin to record proton-proton events this year. The EGEE infrastructure will play a key role in the data processing and analysis of the 4 LHC experiment.
The EGEE User Forums have been always a big opportunity to share the experiences between Grid users and also to trigger important collaboration between different clusters. The first session on Wednesday morning is devoted to the largest LHC experiments: ATLAS and CMS. Different talks will expose the status of the analysis frameworks, the sites and the monitoring tools of these experiments. Due to the importance of 2009 for the LHC, these talks will expose the current status of the largest experiments and their sites before the real data taking. This will be an ideal opportunity to share experiences with other communities which can see the results of the preparation phase of the LHC using the EGEE infrastructure. The second session will continue with another CMS contribution dedicated to the data analysis framework of the experiment. This second session will also include some fundamental examples of how the HEP cluster has contributed to other research fields with the toolkits created originally for this community but also extended to other applications within the EGEE framework.
