CMS Remote Operations

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CMS Remote Operations

• Jargon 101
• Where In The World
• Not All Colliders Are The Same
• Compact Is Relative
• Its A Small World
• Parlez-Vous Français
• LHC_at_FNAL

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Jargon 101

• FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research
  (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)
• LHC Large Hadron Collider
• LEP Large Electron Positron
• CMS Compact Muon Solenoid
• ATLAS A Toroidal LHC Aparatus
• LPC LHC Physics Center
• HEP High Energy Physics
• LARP LHC Accelerator Research Program
• ROC Remote Operations Center
• WBM Web-Based Monitoring
• MTCC Magnet Test and Cosmic Challenge
• CSA07 Computing, Software, and Analysis 2007

http//www.uscms.org/roc/cms_glossary.html
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Where In The World
Chicago to Geneva 4000 miles
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CERN
Remember this distance. Ill come back to it
later.
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Fermilab CERN Campuses
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The LHC Accelerator
The LHC tunnel is buried 50 to 175 m underground,
and straddles the Swiss and French borders on the
outskirts of Geneva. Proton-Proton collisions at
an energy of 7 TeV per beam. First high-energy
collisions are expected in mid-2008.
http//lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
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LHC vs Tevatron
Energy 14 TeV 7 x Tevatron Length 27 km
4 x Tevatron Magnetic Field 8.3 T 2 x
Tevatron Beam Energy 350 MJ 250 x
Tevatron Bunch Collisions 40 MHz 20 x
Tevatron Instantaneous Luminosity 60 x
Tevatron of Collisions in an event 10 x
Tevatron Data Rate 1 Terabyte / sec 50 x
Tevatron of Detector Channels 100 M 100 x
Tevatron of Scientists (2500/expt) 3 x
Tevatron
300 ft
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Tevatron vs LHC Status

• Time-in of electronics across all detector and
  trigger subsystems
• Commission beam loss monitors
• Calibration and alignment of each system
• Establish stable detector configuration and
  trigger criteria

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LHC Accelerator Schedule
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CMS Basic Parameters
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CMS Detector
http//cmsinfo.cern.ch/outreach/CMSdocuments/Detec
torDrawings/Slice/CMS_Slice.swf
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Webcam View Lowering Detector into Cavern on 19
Jan 2007
Several CMS webcams http//www.uscms.org/roc/we
bcams.html
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CMS The Countries
Belgium
Austria
Bulgaria
http//cms.cern.ch/
USA
Oct 2006
Finland
CERN
France
Germany
Russia
Greece
Uzbekistan
Hungary
Ukraine
Italy
Slovak Republic
Georgia
UK
Poland
Belarus
Armenia
Turkey
Portugal
India
Spain
China
Pakistan
Estonia
Switzerland
Cyprus
Korea
China (Taiwan)
Croatia
Ordered by size USA (525 collaborators), Italy
(398), Russia (326), CERN (204), France (146), UK
(117), Germany (116)
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US CMS Collaboration
49 Institutions
By size (physicists) FNAL 58, Florida State
21, UCLA 15, UC Davis 13, MIT 13, Rochester
13, Rutgers 11
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HEP Remote Operations

• With the growth of large international
  collaborations in HEP, the need to participate in
  daily operations from remote locations has
  increased.
• CDF and DZero at Tevatron have 600
  collaborators.
• CMS and ATLAS at LHC will have gt2000.
• Remote monitoring of HEP experiments is nothing
  new.
• The World Wide Web was invented at CERN in 1989,
  and the first web server came online at Stanford
  Linear Accelerator in Dec 1991.
• The first web browser, Mosaic, was released in
  1993.
• Remote operations is the next step, to enable
  collaborators to participate in operations from
  anywhere in the world. Some of the goals include
• Secure access to data, devices, logbooks,
  monitoring information
• Safeguards so actions do not jeopardize or
  interfere with operations
• Collaborative tools for effective remote
  participation in shift activities
• Remote shifts to streamline operations.

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Its A Small World

• We use technology every day to reduce the scale
  in distance and time to control and monitor many
  aspects of our lives including financial, social,
  health and entertainment. Some examples
• Checking your Gmail account from a laptop in
  Starbucks
• Navigating through the Comcast On-Demand menu to
  select a new movie
• Receiving an eBay wireless alert that someone has
  just outbid you
• Calling Dell customer support at 235 am
  reaching an agent in India
• Paying your credit card bills from your online
  Chase bank account
• Using On-Star to get your door unlocked remotely
  (keys are inside!)
• Seeing an AMBER Alert on an electronic billboard
  on the way home
• Tracing your genealogy to Slovenia on
  Ancestry.com
• Finding a new apartment in Geneva, Switzerland on
  Craigs List
• Updating MySpace page with latest photos and news
  of the day
• Researching Zillow database before putting your
  house on the market
• Transfering your prescription to the nearest
  Walgreens while on vacation
• Without realizing it, you perform some type of a
  remote operation every day, often with similar
  technology used by high energy physicists

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Real World vs HEP

• The internet and the web browser interface
  permits us to reach an instant audience from 1 to
  many with web-logs and social networking sites
  like MySpace and Facebook. These are very
  similar to HEP electronic logbooks which include
  text, tables, photos and image files, and to Wiki
  pages used throughout CMS to document most
  everything.
• OnDemand Menus ? Video Conferencing Menus
• Interactive, Remote controls.
• Secure Banking ? Secure Web access to databases
• Password protected. Data Integrity.
• Customer Service ? 24/7 helpdesk.
• Computing systems, power, safety. Shift
  operations.
• Automation. Email alerts. Web page updates.
• Windows XP. Linux. Macs. Office. Oracle. Java.
  iTunes.
• Multinational Corporation ? CERN CMS
  headquarters.
• Fermilab base of US operations.

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Parlez-Vous Francais

• There are quite a number of human factors for
  establishing a remote operations center
• Logistics CERN does not have the infrastructure
  to provide office space, lodging, cafeteria
  services, travel, etc. if even one-third of all
  the various collaborations wanted to work
  on-site.
• Language Everyone speaks English at CERN, but
  you (and your family) need to learn some French
  if you want to buy anything or have a social life
  at night or on weekends.
• Family Many scientists have children in school,
  a working spouse, a mortage, two cars, etc., so
  they do not want relocate to CERN.
• Cultural TV and radio is not in English. Stores
  do not sell your favorite products, and are not
  open 24/7 or Sundays. All of your closest friends
  will remain back home. Most of your personal
  belongings will need to be put in storage.
• Financial The cost of living in Geneva is
  significantly higher than most major cities.
  Travel to and from Geneva is also a factor.

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LHC_at_FNAL ROC Features

• 4 CERN-style consoles (8 workstations) shared by
  CMS LHC scientists
• 4 Projectors to share content within the ROC or
  to remote participants
• Videoconferencing installed for two consoles
• Webcams for remote viewing of ROC
• Secure keycard access to the ROC from Atrium and
  1East Mtg Room
• Secure network for console PCs
• Dedicated subnet, dedicated router w/Access
  Control Lists to restrict access.
• 12-minute video essay displayed on the large
  Public Display used by docents from the
  Education Department to explain CMS and LHC to
  tour groups
• High Definition videoconferencing system for
  conference room

• HD viewing of the ROC, and HD display
  capabilities in the ROC
• Secure group login capability for consoles, with
  persistent console sessions
• Allows multiple users to share common console
  settings.
• Telephone lines share common number.
  International services enabled.
• Access to LHC Physics Center computing resources.

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CMS ROC Shift Activities
Current CMS detector and trigger commissioning
during the summer 2007.
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Remote Operations for LHC

• Training prior to stays at CERN
• Remote participation in studies
• Service after the sale to support accelerator
  components built in the U.S.
• Access to monitoring information
• Software development for LHC controls system
  (LAFS)

CCC at CERN

• LARP The US LHC Accelerator Research Program
  (LARP) consists of four US laboratories, BNL,
  FNAL, LBNL and SLAC, who collaborate with CERN on
  the LHC.
• The LARP program enables U.S. accelerator
  specialists to take an active and important role
  in the LHC accelerator during its commissioning
  and operations, and to be a major collaborator in
  LHC performance upgrades.

CCC
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Remote Operations at CERN

• Remember Slide 4? CMS detector site control
  room is 30 minute drive from CERN campus main
  CMS office buildings.
• The general CMS population needs a Remote
  Operations Center on the CERN campus as the main
  CMS control room is too small inconvenient. No
  cafeteria, no meeting space, no office space,
  etc.
• A CMS Centre is under construction and will
  include
• Workspace for 25-50 people (300 sq meters).
• Office space for 250 people. Priority for CMS
  Centre users working on Data Quality, Detector
  Experts, Computing Operations, etc.
• Meeting Rooms an Auditorium.
• Outreach displays.
• Construction should begin this summer.
• LHC_at_FNAL ROC was used as a model for the CMS
  Centre.
• Computing Networking needs are similar. We are
  using the same consoles. CMS Centre will be 3-4
  times larger.

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Summary

• Remote operations is the next step in high energy
  physics, enabling collaborators to participate in
  the experiment from anywhere in the world.
• With secure access to data, safeguards to protect
  systems and effective collaborative tools, remote
  shifts can be performed from any time or place.
• The cost of travel and/or the stress of
  relocation is mediated by remote operations.
• Fermilab has built the LHC_at_FNAL Remote Operations
  Center, which is shared by scientists and
  engineers working on the LHC and CMS.
• For the LHC it provides a means to participate
  remotely in LHC studies, access to monitoring
  information, a training facility, and supports
  the collaborative development of software for the
  LHC controls system.
• For CMS it provides a location (in a U.S. time
  zone) for performing remote sub-detector
  commissioning and operations shifts, and Tier-1
  grid monitoring shifts.
• Plans for using the ROC in the summer and fall of
  2007
• Trigger commissioning, Global Run Commissioning
  and MTCC-III CMS
• Data operations for CSA07 Tier-1
• Synchotron Proton Source commissioning LARP,
• LHC software development LAFS
• Education and Outreach.

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CMS A Worldwide Adventure
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Backup Slides
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LHC Accelerator Schedule
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Wilson Hall 1st Floor Layout
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LHC_at_FNAL Layout
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CMS Collaboration
See http//cmsinfo.cern.ch/
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Accelerator Challenges
Tevatron team in LHC commissioning
Tevatron
LHC
LHC
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CMS Trigger DAQ
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Assignment of Responsibilities