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Collaborating at a Distance

Collaborating at a DistanceLucas Taylor ▪ LHC Grid Fest ▪ 3 Oct 2008 ▪ CERN

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On-demand documentsWeb invented at CERN

On-demand Computer storage and processingGrid

On-demand peopleNeed to harness global

physics expertise for LHC physics

Communications

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LHC : Competitive Collaboration Competitive

Be first and best

Collaboration Common physics goals Share technical solutions

Teams are globally distributed at all levels Detector builders Software developers Computing operators Physics analysis teams Management, funding

Matrix organizations

Communications

CERN users by nation of Institute (5 Feb 2008)

Example: ATLAS collaboration 37 Countries 169 Institutions2500 Scientific authors

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Communications Systems Text

Email (too much), SMS (not much) Instant messaging (especially youth) News / discussion groups

Voice Phone (especially mobile) Phone-conferencing (small discussions)

Video-conferencing EVO system (Caltech/HEP) High quality commercial systems (H323)

CERN meeting management system (Indico)

Number of events(as of Sept 2008)

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SIPSIP

Example: EVO video-conferencing

Statistics 18,900

registered users 600 users

(unique) per day

Around 160 meetings per day

Around 3,000 meetings per month

Up to 280 users in the same meeting

MCUMCU

MulticastMulticast

H.323H.323

PhonesPhones

Monitoring /Monitoring /MonALISAMonALISA

DesktopsDesktops

Record / Record / PlaybackPlayback

OpenGL VideoOpenGL Video

IM / ChatIM / Chat

Whiteboard /Whiteboard /Shared FilesShared Files

HandheldHandheld

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Collaborative Systems : examplesFinance, HR, admin

Document servers

Wikis, e-learning ...

Software development

Task / bug tracker

Computing operations

Services monitoring

Operations centres

Shift operations

Physics data quality

Distributed Collaboration :

Web really is ubiquitous

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CMS Experiment Control RoomCMS Remote Operations Centre at Fermilab

Distributed Operations Centres

High definition permanently-running video links between operations centres

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Distributed Collaboration

It works! Web is central to everything

Particle physics community develops new tools as-needed Web, Grid, (what next …?)…and uses numerous commodity systems

Distributed Collaboration is crucial to the success of the exciting physics analysis phase of the LHC

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