1. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20011 Planning a Regional Data and Computing Center in Germany Peter Mickel Karlsruhe Research Center – Technology and Environment

2. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20012 The Karlsruhe Research Center: -One of the largest non-commercial science and engineering research institutions in Germany -Founded in 1956; main topics are among other things nuclear physics and nuclear energy -Founded and funded by the federal government of Germany -Today: Broad science program on the areas environment, energy, microsystems and fundamental research -About 4.000 scientists, engineers and other people

3. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20013

4. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20014 IT-Division of the Karlsruhe Research Center ("HIK"): -Founded in 1968, today 67 FTEs (55 staff, 12 leased people), 11 M total annual budget -Topics: To provide a best-effort IT-infrastructure for the scientists and engineers of the Research Center -Fields of work: High performance computing (vector, massive parallel, cluster) Networking Large data handling Workstation and PC division

5. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20015 Requirements for a German Regional Center LHC Tier-1 (i) To support all four LHC experiments (status 10/2000)

6. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20016 Requirements for a German Regional Center LHC Tier-1 (ii) -Karlsruhe Research Center tries to get the German Regional Center -We are planning to begin very smoothly: 2001: 1 percent of the end-volume (2006) 2002: 2 percents of the end-volume (2006) 2003: 5 percents of the end-volume (2006) -The volumes in 2001 thru 2003 are prototypes or testbeds for the full environment in 2006/2007 -We are planning to switch some of our present staff to LHC-Computing -We mean, that we need additionally about 8 FTEs (staff) and possibly some further leased people for this project -We estimate the overall costs for LHCC at about 12 M (plus staff)

7. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20017 Other Project: German Center for BaBar Computing Computing Model multi-Tier Grid based SLAC IN2P3 RAL FZK Univ. Bochum TU Dresden Univ. Rostock Tier-A Tier-B Foundation of a Research Group Grid Computing at the Karlsruhe Research Center (1 July 2001)

8. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20018 Hardware Planning for a BaBar Tier-B computing center

9. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt LHCC Meeting Bologna, 15 June 20019 Presently Under Discussion A single German Regional Data and Computing Center to support: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb BaBar CDF and D0 COMPASS Detailed requirements of German physicists for all off these eight projects expected for 18th of June