U.S. ATLAS Physics and Computing Project Status

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U.S. ATLAS Physics and Computing Project Status

• John Huth
• Harvard University

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Outline

• Project Management Plan
• Organization
• Scope
• Facilities
• Software
• Milestones
• Budget

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U.S. ATLAS Organization
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Projectization

• Access/MS Project Database
• Reporting/tracking function
• Reporting Scheme
• Formal reports quarterly
• Written reports monthly
• PCWS, PCWP, ACWP tracking (same as construction
  project)
• Inputs from all Level 2 managers

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PMP Overview

• Description of ATLAS
• CSG etc
• Description of U.S. Organization
• Job descriptions
• Policies
• Reporting and oversight
• Working appendices
• Budget
• WBS
• Deliverable list
• Major Milestones

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Functional Overview Cost/Schedule Control System
Baseline
Report Generator
ACCESS Database

• WBS
• WBS Dictionary
• Estimate
• - Labor
• - Material
• - Travel
• Rates
• Contingency
• Cost Books
• MOUs
• Project/NSF/Base/
• Infrastructure
• Funding Source

Reports
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Projections Procedure
Terminal
FY Funding by Institution
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Update Procedure
MS Project 98 Baseline (Resource Loaded Schedules)
Schedules
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Escalation Procedure
DOE
MS Project 98 Statused (Resource Loaded Schedules)
Escalation Rates
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BCWS/BCWP
Status Data
S/S Mgr.
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Status Sheets
CSSR at WBS Level 3 WBS Level 5
Cost Reporting (WBS Level 5)
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Institutions
Monthly Cost Reports
Cumulative Cost
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Cost Categories

• Advanced Information Technology Professional
• Information Technology Professional I
• Information Technology Professional II
• Information Technology Technician
• Student
• Travel

• Stores
• Space
• Power
• Low value materials
• High value materials
• Licenses
• Maintenance
• Consulting
• Technical services
• Administrative service

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Change Control
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Project Office

• Information in ACCESS DB
• Tracking functions automated
• Use of project office for procurements
• Major procurements
• 10 Mock Data Challenge (03)
• 40 Facilities ramp (end of 04)
• 100 Facilities ramp (05)

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Coordination with Intl. ATLAS

• Common WBS, schedule
• Working to same milestones
• Trying to ramp up presence at CERN
• Multiple Tutorials given on control/framework
• Software Agreements in progress
  (control/framework is prototype agreement)

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Contingency

• Major issue
• Funding profiles very tight
• Uncertainties large for a fixed set of
  deliverables
• Factors of 2 or more in some cases
• Adopt this model
• Build to cost drop requirements as needed to
  meet deliverables
• Add 10 project reserve to help put deal with
  crises year by year allocation
• Agreement with CMS

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Major U.S. Project Components

• Regional Center at Brookhaven
• User support facility
• Software
• Core software
• Control/framework
• Data management
• Detector Specific reconstruction
• Support, training
• Physics
• Event generators, physics objects
• Computational grids
• Tier 2 facilities

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Regional Center

• Goals
• Support U.S. Physicists in analysis
• Support ATLAS Collaboration
• Hub of U.S. ATLAS Grid
• Status
• Support hires
• Center running, providing support
• Planning for ATLAS, Grid activities
• Acquisition of more Linux boxes
• Support for CPU intensive jobs
• Shielding calculations
• Trigger studies

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Muon Level 2 Trigger

Radius of curvature map for muons.
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Neutron Background Studies
Total neutron flux
KHz/cm2

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Software

• U.S. Responsibilities
• Control/framework
• Data management
• Major detector reconstruction
• Liquid Argon Calorimeter
• Tile Calorimeter
• Muons
• Status
• Major milestones passed in creation of
  control/framework
• 7 FTE software professionals working
• Preparation for software agreements with ATLAS

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Grid Computing

• Petabyte scale virtual data grid
• Hierarchy of centers (Tier 0 CERN, Tier 1 BNL,
  Tier 2 Universities)
• Grid middleware linkages
• Resource allocation and discovery
• Security
• Automation
• Status
• U.S. ATLAS testbed planning
• Participation in GriPhyN, PPDG projects

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U.S. ATLAS Testbed
Boston University
Esnet, Mren
UC Berkeley LBNL-NERSC
NPACI, Abilene
Argonne National Laboratory
Calren Esnet, Abilene, Nton
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Esnet
Abilene
Indiana University
HPSS sites
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GriPhyN
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Challenges in Project Planning

• Projectizing
• Accounting and tracking systems (DONE)
• Revision to Project Management Plan (DONE)
• Preparations for Lehman review (NOW)
• Integration with International ATLAS
• Need more support functions at CERN (In Progress)
• LHC Computing review (in progress)
• Concerns about CERN IT division
• Coping with funding profiles (5M short integral)
• Poor match particularly in software
• Seeking relief in FY 02-04

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Major Milestones
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Milestones
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Request
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Software
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Facility Profile
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Guidance - Request
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Profile Effects

• Substantial delay in services at Regional Center
• Mass Storage System support delayed until FY 04.
• Impacts ability to perform 03 Mock data
  challenge
• Software development cant work with this profile
• Need flatter profile (FY 02-04)
• Still, integral eliminates all detector specific
  tasks (mainly impacts universities)

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Fallbacks

• Overall scale back on requirements
• Software
• Degree of grid automation
• Overall requirements
• (e.g. carrying two vs. one DB product)
• Shifting personnel
• (e.g. CERN location of SW pros)
• Hardware
• Reduction of scope of RC
• Delay of purchases Moores law
• Alternative data-analysis strategies
• Comment user part of facilities is conservative

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Overall Budget
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Budget Breakout
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Summary

• Functional Organization
• Software effort backbone of Intl. ATLAS
• International ATLAS starting to coalesce
• Grid tasks beginning
• Funding profile must be addressed
• PMP (minus WBS, budget) available for comment
• Steps to projectization