1. News and update from KEK-CRC
@CC-IN2P3
Feb. 14, 2017
Takashi Sasaki

2. KEK Inter-University Research Institute Corporation
1km
Inter-University Research Institute Corporation
100% funded by the government
Multidisciplinary laboratory in accelerator science PF
CRC
Injector

3. KEK Two campuses Tsukuba Tokai Electron machines Hadron machine 80km
SuperKEKB, PF
Tokai
Hadron machine
J-PARC
80km
60km
Tokai:J-PARC
KEK Tsukuba
70km
50km
60km
Narita
Haneda

4. Tsukuba Super KEKB Photon Factory Asymmetric e+ e- collider
B Factory
Photon Factory
Material science, bio chemistry and etc.

5. J-PARC@Tokai T2K Particle physics Material and life science
Tokai 2 Kamioka
Particle physics
Hadron facility
Material and life science
MLF

6. KEK budget situation
The fund from the government to KEK is almost flat
This is not a good news
The government specify the usage of the budget project by project
BelleII will be commissioned in JFY2017
J-PARC budget has a big impact for accelerator operation time length
Human resource costs are requested to decrease 1.5% year by year
15% decreasements after 10years compared with this year
Applied for all of National University Corporations and Inter-University Research Institute Corporations

7.
The operation schedule delays due to detector construction delay
Full dressed data acquisition will start in the end of 2018
Reconsideration of data sized are ongoing (reducted)

8. French participation in BelleII
We haven’t heard anything officially
LAL and IPHC(Strasbourg) ?
Before May 2017?
FJKPPL workshop at Strasbourg in May 10-12

9. ILC
The government ordered the ILC committee to bring a new plan with the lowest cost
The US and Japan collaboration is preparing a new accelerator design
The Japanese government expect the large contribution from USA

10. When the decision will be made?
The collaborative research on cost down between US and Japan will continues until 2020
Lots of rumors
MEXT supervise Tokyo Olympic game to be held in 2020
The next POTUS election in 2020
Plan of FNAL-KEK collaboration on cost down

11. Changes in KEK-CRC
New central computer system became in production in September 2016
Super Computer system will not be procured any more
The operation of the current system ends in September 2017
BlueGene-Q　＋ Hitach SR
As a result of budget reduction from the government
Main users are in LatticeQCD
Used also for accelerator orbit calculations

12. Computer System Procurements at KEK
Services are procured by public tender
Not just hardware
Compliments HR in computer centers
For 4 years(can be extensible)
At the end of the contract, all of the hardware are withdrawn
We my purchase a part of them if necessary
KEK central computer system
Compute server, storage, network and other hardware
Middleware such as Grid, cloud, HPSS, GPFS, GHI and etc
Software: compilers……
Web systems: web, wiki, indico, JaCOW…..
Operation of the whole system

13. People in KEK-CRC Yoshimi will move to Kanazawa Univ.
Prof. Kanako retires in the end of JFY2016 (March 2017)
Mandate retirement at the age of 63
Reemployment till the age of 65
Also head if the CSIO office
The new head will be chosen on March 10th, 2017
The management committee makes the decision
Candidates are all of full professors in KEK
Nomination will be done soon
User support
Hitachi IS
User support 6 8 3 4
IBM
Central Computer
Netone
network
Hitachi
Super Computer

14. Research in KEK-CRC Feynman diagram automatic calculations Geant4
Kaneko, Yuasa, Ishikawa, Kawabata
Geant4
Sasaki, Koichi Murakami, Amako
Distributed Computing
Tomoaki Nakamura, Iwai, Takase, Watase
DAQ
Soh Suzuki
Database
Tadashi Murakami
Analysis software for Neutron
Jiro Suzuki
Lattice QCD
Matsufuru
Shibata

15. HEPIX 2017 Fall + HUF 2017 To be held at KEK during October 16-20
HEPIX: Tomoaki
HUF: Koichi
Grand plenary on Monday morning
Other parts will be independent
Excursion to Nikko only for HUF
Shuttle bus between hotels and KEK will be arranged
Public bus does not have extra capacities for events
Accommodations in city center
Takes 45min. for Akihabara by train
Seibu department store will close in the end of February
No quality store in Tsukuba after that
Sponsors
Fuji Film, IBM, DDN, SONY Optical Device…..

16. Sushi restaurants around the Tsukuba station
“Shu”
The best quality
“Kintaro”
Reasonable price
“Tenryu”
Sushi +α
“Yagura”
old fashioned
Sushi was a fast food initially, but became expensive
Shu
Yagura
Kintaro
Tenryu

17. Summary Super KEKB has been commissioned in 2016
Physics run starts in 2016 with limited detector functionality
French participation in Belle II are decided
Budget situation is not satisfactory to operate the both of Super KEKB and J-PARC
ILC possibility is still unknown
New central system has been procured and started the operation in production in 2016
HEPIX 2017 Fall and HUF 2017 will be held at KEK jointly
Oct
The registration will begin in mid-May