An Overview of a Grid Architecture for Scientific Computing

TL;DR

This paper presents an overview of a grid architecture designed for scientific computing, focusing on a testbed for large-scale data handling and processing at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Contribution

It proposes a specific grid architecture for inter-Nordic scientific computing, detailing components and task flow for data-intensive applications.

Findings

Designed a grid system suitable for CERN's data needs

Outlined architecture components and task flow

Supported large-scale scientific data processing

Abstract

This document gives an overview of a Grid testbed architecture proposal for the NorduGrid project. The aim of the project is to establish an inter-Nordic testbed facility for implementation of wide area computing and data handling. The architecture is supposed to define a Grid system suitable for solving data intensive problems at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. We present the various architecture components needed for such a system. After that we go on to give a description of the dynamics by showing the task flow.