An Architecture for Scaling NVO Services to TeraGrid

Roy Williams, Bob Hanisch, Joe Jacob, Ray Plante and Alex Szalay (2005) An Architecture for Scaling NVO Services to TeraGrid. Technical Report. Roy Williams, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechCACR:2005.108]

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Abstract

The term “cyberinfrastructure” has been adopted by the US National Science Foundation to mean “advanced computing engines, data archives and digital libraries, observation and sensor systems, and other research and education instrumentation [linked] into a common framework”. One of the largest awards in this program is the TeraGrid, a linkage of large supercomputer centers based on the Globus software. Another cyberinfrastructure program is the National Virtual Observatory, a linkage of astronomical data publishers into a service-oriented framework. There are different philosophies behind the TeraGrid and the NVO architecture. This note explains a proposed service-oriented architecture for TeraGrid nodes that is an attempt to bridge these ways of working, and a prototype instantiation at Caltech.

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Deposited By:	Sarah M. Emery
Deposited On:	08 February 2006
Record Number:	CaltechCACR:2005.108
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