The open science grid

TLDR

The Open Science Grid (OSG) provides a distributed facility where consortium members have guaranteed and opportunistic access to shared computing and storage resources. The OSG SciDAC‑2 project aims to manage and evolve the distributed infrastructure and support its use. OSG supports and evolves its infrastructure through operations, security, software, troubleshooting, new capabilities, and community engagement, with the SciDAC‑2 project providing targeted activities to manage and evolve the distributed system. The project maintains a collaborative petascale national facility across dozens of autonomous sites, serving hundreds of users, transferring terabytes of data daily, executing tens of thousands of jobs, and delivering robust resources for diverse scientific groups. More information is available at www.opensciencegrid.org.

Abstract

The Open Science Grid (OSG) provides a distributed facility where the Consortium members provide guaranteed and opportunistic access to shared computing and storage resources. OSG provides support for and evolution of the infrastructure through activities that cover operations, security, software, troubleshooting, addition of new capabilities, and support for existing and engagement with new communities. The OSG SciDAC-2 project provides specific activities to manage and evolve the distributed infrastructure and support it's use. The innovative aspects of the project are the maintenance and performance of a collaborative (shared & common) petascale national facility over tens of autonomous computing sites, for many hundreds of users, transferring terabytes of data a day, executing tens of thousands of jobs a day, and providing robust and usable resources for scientific groups of all types and sizes. More information can be found at the OSG web site: www.opensciencegrid.org.