Building a scientific data grid with DiGS

George Beckett; Chris Alton; Christine Davies; Ilan Davis; Jonathan Flynn; Eilidh Grant; Russell Hamilton; Alan Irving; Richard Kenway; Radek Ostrowski; James Perry; Arthur Trew; Mark Beckett

doi:10.1098/rsta.2009.0050

Building a scientific data grid with DiGS

George Beckett, Chris Alton, Christine Davies, Ilan Davis, Jonathan Flynn, Eilidh Grant, Russell Hamilton, Alan Irving, Richard Kenway, Radek Ostrowski, James Perry, Arthur Trew, Mark Beckett

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We provide an insight into the challenge of building and supporting a scientific data infrastructure with reference to our experience working with scientists from computational particle physics and molecular biology. We illustrate how, with modern high-performance computing resources, even small scientific groups can generate huge volumes (petabytes) of valuable scientific data and explain how grid technology can be used to manage, publish, share and curate these data. We describe the DiGS software application, which we have developed to meet the needs of smaller communities and we have highlighted the key elements of its functionality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2471-81
Number of pages	11
Journal	Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Volume	367
Issue number	1897
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2009.0050
Publication status	Published - Jun 2009

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scientific data infrastructure
distributed data management
grid
molecular biology
computational particle physics

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