CMS centres worldwide: A new collaborative infrastructure

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2011 · J.Phys.Conf.Ser.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/331/8/082007· OSTI ID:1437418

Taylor, Lucas ^[1]

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1. Fermilab

The CMS Experiment at the LHC has established a network of more than fifty inter-connected 'CMS Centres' at CERN and in institutes in the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Europe. These facilities are used by people doing CMS detector and computing grid operations, remote shifts, data quality monitoring and analysis, as well as education and outreach. We present the computing, software, and collaborative tools and videoconferencing systems. These include permanently running 'telepresence' video links (hardware-based H.323, EVO and Vidyo), Webcasts, and generic Web tools such as CMS-TV for broadcasting live monitoring and outreach information. Being Web-based and experiment-independent, these systems could easily be extended to other organizations. We describe the experiences of using CMS Centres Worldwide in the CMS data-taking operations as well as for major media events with several hundred TV channels, radio stations, and many more press journalists simultaneously around the world.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1437418
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-11-879-CMS; 1089542
• Conference Information: Journal Name: J.Phys.Conf.Ser. Journal Volume: 331
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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