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Computing Collaborations Manager High Energy Physics Group
Blackett Lab
Prince Consort Road
Imperial College
London SW7 2BW
United Kingdom
+44-(0)20-7594-7810
Email: daniela.bauer (*at*) imperial.ac.uk
(daniela.bauer.grid (*at*) googlemail.com)
Current projects
My work at Imperial College focuses to act as a liaison between experiments and the computing resouces providers to enable experiments to make use of the available computing infrastructure. Current UK policy favours shared, distributed resources, which typically require some adaptation to experimental software to be useable. We can help with that.
GRIDPP: I am a member of the GridPP Project Management Board. I am also one of the site admins for the UKI-LT2-IC-HEP grid site. Further notes on Grid work.
DIRAC: Developement and User support: Imperial College hosts the GridPP DIRAC instance as a grid gateway for small to medium VOs. It represents the UK's interests in DIRAC as a consortium member. I act as the UK representative to the consortium.
Imperial College is an IRIS resource provider (I apologize for the broken link. This has been reported to STFC, repeatedly). Here are some notes on the initial commissioning.
CMS: Imperial College hosts a large CMS Tier2 site.
LZ: Imperial College hosts the UK data centre for the LZ experiment. (Please see the CHEP 2018 talk for details.)
Other and older projects.
Quick link to the admin stuff I encounter ....
Selected Talks
2023:
CHEP 2023 Estimating the environmental impact of a large Tier 2 (given by my colleague Dan Whitehouse)
2022:
DIRAC update for GridPP
2021:
Slowly getting back to normal: The GridPP status report at the DIRAC Users Workshop.
2020:
For the first time in a while: A physics talk ! IRIS Collaboration meeting: Particle Physics in IRIS.
2019:
Together with my colleague Simon Fayer I organized the 9th DIRAC Users' workshop in London. That should count for something.
2018:
CHEP 2018: The LZ UK Data Centre
2017:
ICNPF 2017: Distributed Computing for Small Experiments
DIRAC Users Workshop: Status: The GridPP DIRAC instance
GridPP38: Imperial College as a 'Big Site' in GridPP
Final Design Review (LZ Collaboration meeting at SLAC): LZ UK Data centre (sorry, restricted)
2016:
CHEP 2016: GridPP DIRAC: Supporting non-LHC VOs on LHC centric resources
CHEP 2016: Stealth Cloud: How not to waste CPU during grid to cloud transitions
DIRAC Users Workshop 2016: GridPP DIRAC Service
A list of my recent publications can be found here.
Past projects
I was the Chair of the IRIS Resource Scrutiny and Allocation Panel between 2021 and 2025. Instructions on how to apply for IRIS hosted resources can be found here: RSAP. Track convener (districuted computing) at CHEP2024.
Back when I did physics
From 1999 until September 2008 I was working on the D0 experiment at Fermilab near Chicago/USA. A summary of the work I did during this time (including my thesis (Imperial College, 2002)) can be found here.