International Lattice Data Grid: Turn on, plug in,and download

TL;DR

This paper discusses how the lattice QCD community adopted grid technologies and open source practices to ensure persistent, standardized access to data and code, facilitating collaboration and data sharing.

Contribution

It highlights the integration of grid technologies with open source paradigms in the lattice QCD community for data and code sharing.

Findings

Community embraced open source for code and data

Adoption of grid technologies for data persistence

Standardized protocols enhance data accessibility

Abstract

In the beginning there was the internet, then came the world wide web, and now there is the grid. In the future perhaps there will be the cloud. In the age of persistent, pervasive, and pandemic networks I review how the lattice QCD community embraced the open source paradigm for both code and data whilst adopting the emerging grid technologies, and why having your data persistently accessible via standardized protocols and services might be a good idea.