Introducing Pegasus: An ethnographic research project to study Grid technologies' use by the UK particle physics community.
Will Venters, Tony Cornford
London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, UK
This paper introduces a three year EPSRC research project to study the use of Grid technologies by the UK particle physics community as it prepares for the launch of a major new experiment at CERN. The paper describes the aims of the project, outlines its methodology, and provides an overview of its expected contribution. The research explores Grids within particle physics not as a static platform, but as contested and political accommodation. The paper describes the theoretical lenses we employ in researching the contested, political nature of the GridPP project alongside its technical realization and achievements.
