Published June 2011 | Version public
Journal Article

A Science Driven Production Cyberinfrastructure—the Open Science Grid

  • 1. ROR icon Fermilab
  • 2. ROR icon University of Florida
  • 3. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 4. ROR icon University of Nebraska–Lincoln
  • 5. ROR icon Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • 6. ROR icon Argonne National Laboratory
  • 7. ROR icon Indiana University Bloomington
  • 8. ROR icon University of Chicago
  • 9. ROR icon Clemson University
  • 10. ROR icon University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • 11. ROR icon Renaissance Computing Institute
  • 12. ROR icon Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • 13. ROR icon University of California, San Diego

Abstract

This article describes the Open Science Grid, a large distributed computational infrastructure in the United States which supports many different high-throughput scientific applications, and partners (federates) with other infrastructures nationally and internationally to form multi-domain integrated distributed systems for science. The Open Science Grid consortium not only provides services and software to an increasingly diverse set of scientific communities, but also fosters a collaborative team of practitioners and researchers who use, support and advance the state of the art in large-scale distributed computing. The scale of the infrastructure can be expressed by the daily throughput of around seven hundred thousand jobs, just under a million hours of computing, a million file transfers, and half a petabyte of data movement. In this paper we introduce and reflect on some of the OSG capabilities, usage and activities.

Additional Information

© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Received: 24 November 2010. Accepted: 24 November 2010. Published online: 30 December 2010. We acknowledge the many contributors and sponsors of the OSG use and work.

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Eprint ID
23779
DOI
10.1007/s10723-010-9176-6
Resolver ID
CaltechAUTHORS:20110524-102147827

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