U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

FIELD WORK PROPOSAL

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| 1.  B&R No. | 2.  Contractor     |   | 3\. Date   | 4\. Task Term:   |
|             |     No.:\          |   | Prepared:  |                  |
| KJ-         |     PO-025         |   |            | Begin: July 2001 |
| 01-02-00001 |                    |   | 02/25/2002 |                  |
|             |                    |   |            | End: September   |
| KA          |                    |   |            | 2004             |
| -04-01-01-0 |                    |   |            |                  |
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| 7\. Title:  |                    |   |            |                  |
| Particle    |                    |   |            |                  |
| Physics     |                    |   |            |                  |
| Data Grid   |                    |   |            |                  |
| Co          |                    |   |            |                  |
| llaborative |                    |   |            |                  |
| Pilot       |                    |   |            |                  |
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| 8\.         |                    |   |            |                  |
| Principal   |                    |   |            |                  |
| Inve        |                    |   |            |                  |
| stigator(s) |                    |   |            |                  |
| : Gibbard,  |                    |   |            |                  |
| B.          |                    |   |            |                  |
| 63          |                    |   |            |                  |
| 1-344-7969, |                    |   |            |                  |
| Messer, M.  |                    |   |            |                  |
| 63          |                    |   |            |                  |
| 1-344-7107, |                    |   |            |                  |
| Wenaus, T.  |                    |   |            |                  |
| 6           |                    |   |            |                  |
| 31-344-4755 |                    |   |            |                  |
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| 9\.                        | 12\. Headquarters   | 15\. HQ          |
| Headquarters/Operations    | Organization:       | Organizational   |
| Office Program Manager:    |                     | Code:            |
|                            | Office of Science   |                  |
| Scott, Mary Anne           |                     | SC               |
| 301-903-6368               | 13\. Operations     |                  |
|                            | Office: CHICAGO     | 16\. DOE         |
| 10\. Operations Office     |                     | Organizational   |
| Work Proposal Reviewer:    | 14\. Contractor     | Code:            |
|                            | Name:               |                  |
| Aronson, Samuel H.         |                     | CH               |
| 631-344-2051               | BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE  |                  |
|                            | ASSOCIATES          | 17\. Contractor  |
| 11\. Contractor Work       |                     | Code:            |
| Proposal Manager:          | BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL |                  |
|                            | LABORATORY          | BN               |
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| 18. Work Proposal          |                     |                  |
|     Description (Approach, |                     |                  |
|     anticipated benefit in |                     |                  |
|     200 words or less,     |                     |                  |
|     suitable for public    |                     |                  |
|     release):              |                     |                  |
|                            |                     |                  |
| The Particle Physics Data  |                     |                  |
| Grid Collaboratory Pilot   |                     |                  |
| will develop, evaluate and |                     |                  |
| deliver vitally needed     |                     |                  |
| Grid-enabled tools for     |                     |                  |
| data-intensive             |                     |                  |
| collaboration in particle  |                     |                  |
| and nuclear physics. Novel |                     |                  |
| mechanisms and policies    |                     |                  |
| will be vertically         |                     |                  |
| integrated with Grid       |                     |                  |
| middleware and experiment  |                     |                  |
| specific applications and  |                     |                  |
| computing resources to     |                     |                  |
| form effective end-to-end  |                     |                  |
| capabilities. PPDG is a    |                     |                  |
| collaboration of computer  |                     |                  |
| scientists with a strong   |                     |                  |
| record in distributed      |                     |                  |
| computing and Grid         |                     |                  |
| technology, and physicists |                     |                  |
| with leading roles in the  |                     |                  |
| software and network       |                     |                  |
| infrastructures for major  |                     |                  |
| high-energy and nuclear    |                     |                  |
| experiments. Together they |                     |                  |
| cover the wide spectrum of |                     |                  |
| scientific disciplines and |                     |                  |
| technologies required to   |                     |                  |
| bring Grid-enabled data    |                     |                  |
| manipulation and analysis  |                     |                  |
| capabilities to the desk   |                     |                  |
| of every physicist. A      |                     |                  |
| three-year program is      |                     |                  |
| proposed, taking advantage |                     |                  |
| of the strong driving      |                     |                  |
| force provided by          |                     |                  |
| now-running physics        |                     |                  |
| experiments together with  |                     |                  |
| recent advances in Grid    |                     |                  |
| middleware. Our goals and  |                     |                  |
| plans are guided by the    |                     |                  |
| immediate, medium-term and |                     |                  |
| longer-term needs and      |                     |                  |
| perspectives of the LHC    |                     |                  |
| experiments that will run  |                     |                  |
| for at least a decade from |                     |                  |
| late 2005 and by the       |                     |                  |
| research and development   |                     |                  |
| agenda of other            |                     |                  |
| Grid-oriented efforts.     |                     |                  |
| PPDG is actively involved  |                     |                  |
| in establishing the        |                     |                  |
| necessary coordination     |                     |                  |
| between potentially        |                     |                  |
| complementary data-grid    |                     |                  |
| initiatives in the US,     |                     |                  |
| Europe and beyond.         |                     |                  |
|                            |                     |                  |
| The tasks to be performed  |                     |                  |
| at BNL are:                |                     |                  |
|                            |                     |                  |
| 1.  Establish production   |                     |                  |
|     distributed data       |                     |                  |
|     services for ATLAS     |                     |                  |
|     between BNL and CERN   |                     |                  |
|     and other US ATLAS     |                     |                  |
|     collaborating          |                     |                  |
|     institutions.          |                     |                  |
|                            |                     |                  |
| 2.  Establish production   |                     |                  |
|     distributed data       |                     |                  |
|     services for STAR      |                     |                  |
|     between BNL and LBNL.  |                     |                  |
|                            |                     |                  |
| 3.  Establish production   |                     |                  |
|     distributed job        |                     |                  |
|     submission services in |                     |                  |
|     support of the STAR    |                     |                  |
|     and ATLAS experiments  |                     |                  |
|                            |                     |                  |
| 4.  Develop transparent    |                     |                  |
|     distributed processing |                     |                  |
|     services integrated    |                     |                  |
|     with ATLAS software    |                     |                  |
|     infrastructure         |                     |                  |
|                            |                     |                  |
| 5.  Develop transparent    |                     |                  |
|     distributed processing |                     |                  |
|     services integrated    |                     |                  |
|     with STAR software     |                     |                  |
|     infrastructure         |                     |                  |
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| 19\. Principal             |                     |                  |
| Investigator (s) :         |                     |                  |
|                            |                     |                  |
| [03/01/2001]{.underline}   |                     |                  |
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| Signature(s) Date          |                     |                  |
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| 20\. Contractor Work Proposal     | 21\. Operations Office Review    |
| Manager:                          | Official:                        |
|                                   |                                  |
| [03/01/2001]{.underline}          | Signature Date                   |
| Signature Date                    |                                  |
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| 22\. Detail         | () d. Future             | () g. Other         |
| Attachments:        | accomplishments          | (Specify Topic)     |
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| () a. Purpose       | () e. Relationships to   |                     |
|                     | other projects           |                     |
| () b. Approach      |                          |                     |
|                     | () f. Explanation of     |                     |
| () c. Technical     | milestones               |                     |
| progress            |                          |                     |
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