1. BigPanDA Technical Interchange Meeting July 20, 2017 Hong Ma
Welcome to BNL
BigPanDA Technical Interchange Meeting
July 20, 2017
Hong Ma
Safety!
70/100!

2. Brookhaven Lab at a Glance…
Est. 1947
One of 17 DOE Labs, 10 DOE Office of Science, 6 multi-program SC Labs
Managed by Brookhaven Science Associates
Core universities: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Columbia, Cornell
3,000 employees => ~5400 jobs in NY State
400 Grad/Undergrad Students (BNL payroll)
$600M annual budget
5,320 acres with 310 buildings
Major user facility for university and industry researchers
Over 4,000 users per year
Stony Brook University is Lab’s largest user (>600)
Fundamental, basic research to innovation, development and commercialization of technologies: energy S&T, nuclear and high energy physics, bio and environmental sciences, big data, national security

3. Brookhaven National Laboratory
RHIC
NSRL
BLIP
BNL Scientific Data and
Computing Center
Interdisciplinary Energy
Science Building
CFR-I
ATF
CFN
NSLS-II
Long Island Solar Farm

4. Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
The world’s highest energy machine for fundamental nuclear physics
World-wide collaboration of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers and students
Unique, most powerful microscope to explore the mysterious world of the Strong Force inside the proton and sec after the birth of the universe
4,000,000,000,000K
It is a Quark-Gluon Plasma and a “Perfect Liquid”!
Strategy for the future
Measure the extraordinary properties of the perfect liquid
Transition from RHIC to eRHIC to learn what’s at the heart of all visible matter
Applications of nuclear science
Understand the origin of the universe a microsecond after the big bang

5. ATLAS DUNE LSST High Energy Physics
Energy Frontier: ATLAS
US ATLAS Operations Program
Phase I – Upgrade Project
HL-LHC Upgrade Project
Tier I Computing
Software & distributed computing
Physics analysis and support
Intensity Frontier: Neutrinos
Large LArTPC: MicroBooNE, SBND and DUNE.
Host International DUNE Project Office
DUNE far detector project office
Leadership of Daya Bay Experiment
Significant contributions to PROSPECT
Cosmic Frontier: LSST
Development and characterization of CCD sensors and production of Science Rafts.
large scale structure theory and experiment, weak lensing and computing infrastructure
DUNE
Understand the origin of the universe a microsecond after the big bang
LSST

6. Computational Science Initiative (CSI)
Leverage laboratory investments in scientific computing across multiple programs
Partners : universities (Columbia, Cornell, New York University, Stony Brook, and Yale) and companies
Infrastructure Operation: RACF, HPC, High Speed Network Transfers
Computational Science: e.g., Lattice QCD
Computer Science Research: programming models, machine learning, visual analytics. workload management
Applied Mathematics and training
Understand the origin of the universe a microsecond after the big bang

7. World-Leading Scientific Data Archive and Analysis Facility
2nd largest scientific archive in the U.S., 4th largest in the world PB
Annual data statistics: 35 PB ingest, 37 PB export, 400 PB analyzed, up to 200 TB/day transferred
~1.6 ExaByte of data processed using BNL PanDA in 380 M jobs last year world wide
70,000 High Throughput Computing Cores, HPC - 64,500 core IBM BG/Q, new HPC Computer Systems installed, mirroring ASCR future Leadership Class Computing Facilities
Current 200 GB/s external network link will be upgraded to 300 GB/s in 2017
17 Data Services, ~1700 active users
BNL’s Institutional Cluster installed 2016

8. From Baby PanDA to BigPanDA

9. Have a Productive and Safe Meeting and Happy Interchanging!