Link of the week - Open Science Grid: a collaborative approach
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Open Science Grid: Building and Sustaining General Cyberinfrastructure Using a Collaborative Approach is a paper discussing the creation and operation of the Open Science Grid. Published in June in First Monday, it covers:
"OSG's experience broadly illustrates the breadth and scale of effort that a diverse, evolving collaboration must undertake in building and sustaining large-scale cyberinfrastructure serving multiple communities," writes author Paul Avery, a professor at the University of Florida and resource manager for Open Science Grid. "Scalability-in resource size, number of member organizations and application diversity-remains a central concern," he continues. "As a result, many interesting challenges continue to emerge and their resolution requires engaged partners and creative adjustments." Read more at Open Science Grid: Building and Sustaining General Cyberinfrastructure Using a Collaborative Approach by Paul Avery, First Monday, volume 12, number 6 (June 2007). |