Players and Objectives

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Players and Objectives

• C0-PIs Ian Foster (ANL), Carl Kesselman
  (USC/ISI), Miron Livny (UWis)
• Other Senior Personnel
• Bill Allcock (ANL), John Bent (UWis),John
  Bresnahan (ANL), Ann Chervenak (USC/ISI), Joe
  Link (ANL), Bob Schwartzkopf(USC/ISI),Doug Thain
  (UWis), Steve Tuecke (ANL)
• Objective efficient, high performance, reliable,
  secure, and policy aware management of
  large-scale data movement.

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Project Accomplishments

• Achieved 2.8 Gbs transfer rate with GridFTP
• Transferred 236 GB in 54 hours surviving multiple
  failures with no human intervention
• Our tools are in use in multiple production
  environments and helping produce real results
• Redesigned replica tools to significantly
  increase performance and scalability
• Multiple standards documents in front of the Grid
  Forum for standardization

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Available Tools and Technologies

• Currently Available
• Non-striped GridFTP, 1st Generation replica tools
• In Alpha
• 2nd Generation replica tools, OGSA compliant
  Reliable File Transfer (RFT) service, storage
  management tools (NeST, Kangaroo, Data Placement
  (DaP) scheduler) and the fault tolerant shell
• Future
• Striped GridFTP, non-TCP transports, improved
  reservations and scheduling

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Collaboration and Interaction

• Multiple SciDAC projects consider our SW and
  integral part of their project
• ESG, PPDG, DOE Science Grid, Fusion (planned)
• We work closely to ensure that we incorporate the
  latest security advances
• CAS integration is ongoing in our tools.
• Many other projects, both US, and international
  are also extensively using our tools
• GriPhyn, iVDGL, EU DataGrid, NorduGrid
  (Scandanavia), GridPP (UK), NPACI, the Alliance