GRID IL
Tel Aviv, 3 11 2009
General Comments on Israeli Education and Research (2005…
but not far from now..)
• Israeli Population 6.86 Millions
habitants.
• GDP/capita=18K$
TECHNION(HEP, TH&EXP)
Haifa Univ (no HEP)
• Unemployment ~10% (not very high
taking into account 1M immigration wave)
• 8 Universities (7 with large
Research Programs) & 26
Academies/Colleges.
• % of GDP for Civilian R&D: 4.3%
• Average monthly wage:1.6K$.
• TECHNION created in 1924 & HU
Jerusalem in 1925, Weizmann in
1935 (in 1948 1,600 students, now
260,000)
Tel-Aviv University (HEP TH&EXP
Bar-Ilan University (no HEP)
Open University
Hebrew Uni. Jerusalem
(HEP TH)
Weizmann Inst., Rehovot
(HEP TH&EXP)
Univ. of Ber-Sheva
(HEP TH&EXP)
G.Mikenberg
2
Tel Aviv University
• Largest university in Israel
• 9 faculties, 106 departments, 90 research
institutes, about 1000 academic staff
• School of Physics: 450 undergraduates, 300
graduate students
Physics Students across Universities
TAU
4
HUJ
G.Mikenberg
Bar-Ilan
HEP EXP
3 institutes: Weizmann, Technion, TAU
Participate in DESY, SLAC (BABAR), J-LAB, Heavy
ions, CERN (OPAL and others)
ATLAS (Muon endcap trigger detector - TGC)
Manpower for Experimental HEP
• Scientists: 32
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Tel Aviv University: 15
Technion:3
Weizmann:14
• Engineers & Technicians, not paid by Grants: 15
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Tel Aviv University: 4
Technion:3
Weizmann:8
• Graduate Students: 32 (30 in Theory)
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Tel Aviv University: 13
Technion:4
Weizmann:15
G.Mikenberg
6
CERN
• Unofficially - Israelis work at CERN since the
60’s
• Israel observer since 1990
• Currently candidate for membership
ATLAS IL GRID
• Distributed Tier-2 across the 3 inst.
• Committed to 1.3% of ATLAS computing
(equivalent to ATLAS participation in ATLAS).
• In addition each site serves as a local (but
shared) Tier-3.
• Manpower: (Shared effort) 1-2 FTE per site.
Status (2009)
• CPU – (KSI2K): 750
• Storage – 470 TB
• Network dedicated 1GB/sec with 2.5GB/sec conenction
to GEANT backbone (IUCC).
• All sites are certificated by EGEE.
• Running ATLAS analysis jobs and receive data from
Tier-1 (NIKHEF)
ATLAS TAU GRID
IL-TAU-HEP
New site (split from TAU-LCG2 Grid)
In production since last month
Moved to a new location yesterday (CC)
1/3 of IL ATLAS resources
Manpower: Yan + 1/3 FTE
+ Technician and 1 HEP PhD student