[CAnet - news] TeraGrid & DEISA create Wide-Area Global File System

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[Some excerpts from GridToday article - BSA]

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  TeraGrid and DEISA, the European supercomputing Grid infrastructure, 
  have been linked, for the purposes of a technology demonstration, by a 
  common, scalable, wide-area global file system spanning two 
  continents.
  
  It was shown that any scientist,   accessing TeraGrid from any of the
participating sites in the United   States, or accessing DEISA from any of
the DEISA sites in France,   Germany or Italy, can directly and
transparently create or access   collaborative data stored in the now linked
Grid-wide global file   systems of TeraGrid and DEISA with one common file
address space. The   even more important aspect is that the same is true for
applications   which, executed at any of the participating sites,
transparently  access data in the common file address space.
  
For the   technology demonstration, the dedicated DEISA and TeraGrid
networks   were interconnected with the help of specialists from GEANT, 
  Abilene/Internet2, and the national research networks from France, 
  Germany, and Italy (RENATER, DFN, GARR). They established a two 
  continent spanning high performance network between TeraGrid sites at 
  the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Chicago, and Indiana, and DEISA 
  sites in several European countries (France, Germany, Italy). Over 
  this dedicated connection, DEISA and TeraGrid global file systems were 
  merged into one common global file system. This network connection 
  between the two infrastructures is expected to become persistent at 
  some time in the future.
  
  The demonstration featured the execution of supercomputing 
  applications of various scientific disciplines which were carried out 
  both as TeraGrid and as DEISA applications. Single site applications 
  transparently wrote their results to the intercontinental global file 
  system, ready for transparent further processing from other access 
  Grid access points. Featured applications for the demo included a 
  Protein Structure Prediction and a Cosmological Simulation carried out 
  at SDSC, and a Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulation and a Cosmological 
  Simulation carried out at Garching Computing Center of the Max Planck 
  Society (Germany).



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