Project title: The Nordic e-Infrastrukture Collaboration (NeIC)
Main applicant: Linköping University
Fellow applicant: Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy
The data collected by the experiments needs to be processed and stored securely and reliably. ALICE and ATLAS benefit from the infrastructure NeIC (Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration), a Nordic organisation for e-science, which is largely funded by Nordiska Forskningsrådet. NeiC's flagship project is the coordination of the joint Nordic distributed data centre NT1 (Nordic Tier 1), which is one of 11 Tier-1 clusters in WLCG (Worldwide LHC Computing Grid). WLCG has about 1.4 million CPU cores and 1.5 exabytes of storage, distributed over 43 countries. About 2 million computer programmes are being run daily, in order to reconstruct, simulate and analyse physics data at the LHC experiments. This funding will enable the continues operation of NT1 through NeIC. This means that NeIC can continue to coordinate the NT1 cluster within WLCG as well as maintain the system for distributed data storage and the software ARC (Advanced Resource Connector) which is needed to operate NT1. The hardware and the operation of NT1 at the Swedish NAISS (National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden) is funded through the operations grant to ATLAS and ALICE.
