About HEP WICED

HEP-WICED (High Energy Physics – Web Interactive Computing and Exchange of Data) is a project to build upon the initial success of the University of Southampton’s HEPMDB (High Energy Physics Model Database). The HEP-WICED project will extend HEPMDB to be much powerful yet simpler to use by researchers, aid collaboration with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), improve collaboration between universities and significantly improve the visibility and availability of such modelling methods to students, researchers and the public. HEP-WICED will act as a central storage, calculation and dissemination point for the data produced by High Energy Physics (HEP) tools. Allowing researchers to access previously computed runs and to avoid re-calculations within the research community, saving months of simulation time per researcher. This project will also create a standardised format for the data that is created during simulations, reducing the significant amount of the researchers time that is spent on deciphering the different current formats before interpreting the results. This will be in collaboration with the LHC and the standardisation will also extend to the LHCs results to be compared with theory predictions. The project will require parallelising and optimising the HEP tools to improve efficiency and speed. The proposed system will also greatly simplify the running of such simulations for the user, removing the cost and maintenance of the software and hardware, providing online help, giving many collaboration tools, an intuitive and simple GUI and yet it would still be as powerful and fast as the best conventional systems. This permits the user to focus on creating and publishing their research within the community. All that is needed by the user is a browser. Finally, the web-based system could easily be modified to work with different packages, such as: biotechnology, chemistry or medicine and could be swapped in to aid research in these or any other fields. This project will build upon the significant amount of research papers that already exist, reduce the time and cost to publish new research, create several multi-disciplined and very employable careers, increase the collaboration between different research departments and different fields of study and will have a high profile in not only the Physics research community but also other research communities, industries and schools.