Agreement on the provision of Polish data processing resources to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

2021-05-17

Agreement on the provision of Polish data processing resources to the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

As a consequence of the “Memorandum of Understanding for Collaboration in the Deployment and Exploitation of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)”, the Cyfronet AGH Academic Computer Center, the National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) and the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center have concluded agreement regarding to share the data processing resources for the purposes of Poland’s obligations in the WLCG.

The signatories of the agreement are three Data Centers, which will make specific commitments to the WLCG initiative. These include commitments to provide hardware and personnel resources, but also to maintain them for a declared period of time. The agreement concerns the provision of resources for the experiments operating within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN): ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb.

The provision of resources for individual experiments is carried out and coordinated by the signatories of this agreement, together wih the coordinators of individual experiments, and thus:
● Cyfronet provides and coordinates resources for ATLAS collaboration,
● NCBJ provides and coordinates resources for LHCb cooperation,
● PSNC provides and coordinates resources for ALICE collaboration.

For several years, Poland has been providing its processing infrastructure (KDM) and data for the WLCG experiments.
On the one hand, these activities are a contribution of Polish nuclear physics to the construction of LHC experiments.
On the other hand, it enables the use of computational services for the international scientific community
gathered around the CERN accelerator.