Participation of the JINR in the WLCG project
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research takes an active part in the WLCG project from its start. Participation of the JINR in the WLCG project is fixed by the Agreement signed by heads of the CERN, the JINR and several Russian institutes. In the frames of the project works were carried out both in the JINR and in the CERN in following directions:
- support and development of the WLCG infrastructure for the high energy physics and for the LHC project;
- participation in Service Challenges and Data Challenges – global large-scale testing of WLCG grid-infrastructure;
- computing support and development for ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments;
- support and development of data storage based on the dCache system development of grid monitoring systems;
- support of the WLCG activity in the JINR member states;
- training of WLCG users and systems administrators.
We have two WLCG Data Centers at the JINR Laboratory of Information Technologies:
Tier1 (T1_RU_JINR) provides one of 7 dedicated real-time computing facilities for experimental data from the CMS detector at the CERN
Tier2 (JINR-LCG2) provides one of more then 170 dedicated real-time computing facilities for experimental data from the ATLAS, ALICE, CMS, LHCb detectors, and other VO from RDIG community
We participated in some other WLCG activities:
- Software development for ATLAS, ALICE, CMS
- WLCG Dashboard (WLCG Google Earth monitoring,
Global data transfer monitoring,
Local and global Monitoring of Tier3 centers,
xROOTd Monitoring,…) - NoSQL data storage integration (Hadoop, ElasticSearch,…)
- Integration of Grid, Clouds and HPC
- PanDA WMS Development (Pilot2, Harvester),
- Compass Production System GENSER & MCDB
- DataLakes