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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 56: Experimentelle Methoden: unterschiedliche Techniken

T 56.7: Talk

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 18:20–18:35, K.12.18 (K3)

VISPA - A web-based Platform for Research, Outreach and Education — •Daniel van Asseldonk, Martin Erdmann, Benjamin Fischer, Robert Fischer, Christian Glaser, Fabian Heidemann, Gero Müller, Thorben Quast, Marcel Rieger, Martin Urban, and Christoph Welling — III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen

We present the latest developments on the VISPA project (https://vispa.physik.rwth-aachen.de). It was originally designed and successfully used to perform modular data analyses in high-energy and astroparticle physics. Based on the previous experience, VISPA became a flexible and extendable internet-based platform which offers tools to analyse physics data in a web-browser. Any computer or cluster that is connectable via SSH from the VISPA server can serve as a worker node and make its installed software, e.g. specific to experiments, accessible to the analyses. VISPA provides basic functionalities such as a terminal, a file browser, a code editor and user management. The platform is open source, written in Python and Javascript. A well-documented API allows users to write their own extensions. Extensions exist for job submission to HTC Condor and the World Wide LHC Computing Grid, job monitoring, and to browse physics data. With VISPA, students learn physics phenomena by doing data analysis exercises, experienced scientist are able to focus on physics rather than on computing. Via the CERN open data portal and the Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics, VISPA provides access to public data and analyses opportunities to everyone.