First significant use of UK particle physics Grid
Sat 11 May 2002
Alex Howard of Imperial College has made the first significant use of the UK particle physics Grid. Alex has submitted over a hundred jobs to 16 Grid nodes at Imperial and 8 Grid nodes at RAL running EDG middleware.
He has been running GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulations of the ZEPLIN III Dark Matter detector for the UKDMC Collaboration and of the charging rate of proof masses by cosmic rays for the LISA/STEP gravitational wave experiment. The Grid has allowed Alex to submit large numbers of jobs in a small space of time and has given him access to much greater computing resources that he would have been able to use in the past. A talk summarising Alex's experiences can be found at http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/gridpp4/ah_experiences.ppt
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