Midwest Tier2 Center
Robert Gardner, PI
Goals: The CI and the Enrico Fermi Institute are teaming up to build a computing resource for analysis of the multi-Petabyte datasets that will be recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN LHC. The Midwest Tier2 Center (MWT2), led by UC, is a joint project with Indiana University to build a single, integrated facility for a community of “regional” physics working groups focusing on common analysis-object datasets that will be hosted by the facility.
Significance: Grid and VO-managed services for data and job management are deployed on edge servers at each site, bringing the resources into a distributed, multi-tiered network of computing facilities in the LHC computing grid environment.
Accomplishments: Two clusters, one deployed in the UC/CI machine room and the other at the Indianapolis campus of Indiana University, will utilize 10 Gbps network links, high capacity storage and filesystems (approaching 500 TB by 2008) and CPU resources as the basis for the analysis environment.
