1. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Enzo Capone (GÉANT) LHCOPN/ONE Meeting, LBL Berkeley (USA) LHCONE Application Pierre Auger Observatory 1-2 June 2015 Prepared by Jiri Chudoba for the Pierre Auger Collaboration Institute of Physics of the CAS and CESNET

2. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Properties of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays Sources Energy spectrum Composition Cause of the flux suppression Goals of PAO Tools Measurement of cosmic rays showers

3. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Surface detector 3000 km 2 1671 water Cherenkov detectors Spacing 1500 m (E>10 18.5 eV) Infill array 750 m (E>10 17.5 eV) Fluorescence detector 4x6 (FD) + 3 (HEAT) telescopes on 4 sites Radio detection techniques AERA - 153 stations (17 km 2 ) Auger Upgrade Adding scintillation detectors Installation 2016 – 2019 Data taking until 2025 Observatory – Hybrid Detector

4. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Worldwide Collaboration More then 500 members from 16 countries Full members Associate members Argentina Australia Brasil Colombia* Czech Republic France Germany Italy Mexico Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Spain USA *associated LHCONE connected

5. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Real data processing and storage at CC IN2P3 (plus mirror at FERMILAB) Monte Carlo simulations on grid Computing model

6. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Statistics (EGI, 2010 – 2014) > 1000000 jobs/month 4000 cores

7. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Sites supporting VO auger ( US sites not used for bulk production) UNAM (Mexico) not in gstat view, but supports VO auger

8. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Sites supporting VO auger

9. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org VO Auger data distribution (TB) (VO auger support has ended in 2015)

10. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org manual (lcg-cp) FTS3 (FZK) recently very low < 10 TB in total during the last 2 month biggest traffic: from active sites to CC IN2P3 “consolidation” of results total data volume registered in LFC: 821 TB slow increase in total data volume estimated total 1 PB at the end of 2016 Data transfers

11. Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org Thank you Networks ∙ Services ∙ People www.geant.org © GEANT Limited on behalf of the GN4 Phase 1 project (GN4-1). The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 691567 (GN4-1). vincenzo.capone@geant.org