CMS Asian Region Center established in IHEP
With the efforts of IHEP computing center and the CMS Chinese Groups, the CMS Asian Region Center (ROC@Beijing) has been established recently. All the preparations for remote shift and trial operations will be ready at the end of July. On August 15 or so, the ROC@Beijing will start to work.
This is the first time for the CMS experiment to extend CMS remote operation from European and American Regions to Asian region, which will establish 24 hours/day shift, covering 3 time zones and each time zone is responsible for 8 hours/day in the daytime of it zone. This kind of shift mode will efficiently assure smooth operation of the CMS experiment. The ROC@Beijing will become the first trial center for the mode, and its successful operation is an important step for further extending CMS remote operations to other regions of the world. The foundation of center has been paid much attention by the CMS experiment groups, and received many congratulation letters from the directors of CMS collaborators, CMS experts from Europe and American groups.
CMS experiment is one of the most important experiments in LHC. IHEP and the Peking University from China joined this experiment and contributed a lot to the construction of CMS detectors, now the operation of experiment and data analysis. The CMS experiment plans to establish several remote operation centers to promote international cooperation. This goal is to help all the CMS collaborators to participate effectively in the CMS research programme, irrespective of locations.
The ROC@Beijing is the earliest and the most complete center to be built in Asia, which will greatly promote the international cooperation of CMS Asia groups, especially CMS Chinese groups. It is a shared place with easy access to various information relating to CMS operations for faculty members, postdocs, students from CMS Chinese group to participate in the operations of CMS experiment and CMS grid. Also the center can help increase the Chinese group’s visibility and train new students. Through monitoring screens and high quality video systems in control room, Chinese physicists can check the status of CMS subdetectors and data quality on time, and perform real-time control, including monitoring of grid sites and management of grid operations and services. CMS TV in control room can broadcast lively important events happened in CMS experiments, attracting more scientists and students to join CMS experiment.
