Attendees at the Brazil in CMS and HEPGrid Workshop.
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Open Science Grid, an international grid project being developed for use by scientific and computer science applications from a variety of disciplines, has now added South America to the list of continents participating in the OSG Integration Grid. As part of the Brazil in CMS and HEPGrid Workshop, held May 12-13 at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), an OSG site was inaugurated at the HEPGrid Brazil computing center.
"The meeting had two important goals," said Alberto Santoro, Professor at UERJ and workshop organizer. "The first was to start the HEPGB OSG site and discuss global computing for the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment. The second was for the Brazilian high energy physics collaborators to meet with the spokesman and representatives from the CMS experiment to discuss potential Brazilian collaboration and contributions to the detector and computing."
The HEPGB project connects the seven Brazilian universities and research institutions participating in high energy physics research with each other and with international grid projects. The goal of HEPGB is to facilitate regional collaboration and the country's participation in worldwide research. HEPGB will be a Tier 2 computing center in the CMS experiment grid computing structure, associated with the Tier 1 computing center at Fermilab in Illinois.
"UERJ and The University of the State of Sao Paolo (UNESP) are the first grid installations in South America," said Fermilab's Ian Fisk. "UNESP already had a SAMGrid station and has been participating in grid computing for the DZero experiment at Fermilab, and UERJ is now also a working OSG site."
The Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Federal University of the South Rio Grande and Federal University of Bahia also participate in the HEPGB project. Funding for the project is provided by the Financial Support Agency for Science and Technology, National Council of Research, Financial Support Agency for Science and Technology of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, and several other organizations.
"The Brazilians have been collaborating on a fixed target experiment and then on the DZero experiment at Fermilab for two decades, and they've always been interested in high level computing," said Fermilab's Dan Green. "They have an ambitious program to network their country, and they may also be able to tie other South and Latin American countries together."
Learn more at the HEPGB and OSG Web site.
—Katie Yurkewicz
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