Open Science Grid

What is OSG?

OSG Snapshot

OSG  - a Community Consortium

OSG sits in the middle of an environment of a Grid-of-Grids from Local to Global Infrastructures

Overlaid by virtual computational environments of
single to large groups of researchers local to worldwide

OSG Core Activities

OSG Middleware

What is the VDT?

Middleware to Support Security

OSG Active in Control and Understanding of Risk

High Energy Physicists Analyze today’s Data  Worldwide

Physics needs in 2008:

OSG Data Transfer, Storage and Access - GBytes/sec 365 days a year for CMS & ATLAS

Aggressive program of End to End Network performance

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 The OSG Model of Federation

Local Grid with adaptor to national grid

Information &  Monitoring

Summary of OSG today