2009/10/09 by G. Beckett, Mark G. Beckett, Paul Coddington +9 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Computer science #Cyberinfrastructure #Data grid #Data sharing #Database #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Grid #Grid computing #Lattice (music) #Metadata #Physics #Scientific Computing and Data Management #Semantic Web #Semantic grid #World Wide Web #hep-lat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2011.01.027
published as Comput.Phys.Commun.182:1208-1214,2011 · 13 pages
arxiv created 2009/10/09 · openalex publication_date 2011/02/16 · arxiv updated 2011/04/29 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present the International Lattice Data Grid (ILDG), a loosely federated grid of grids for sharing data from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD) simulations. The ILDG comprises of metadata, file format and web-service standards, which can be used to wrap regional data-grid interfaces, allowing seamless access to catalogues and data in a diverse set of collaborating regional grids. We discuss the technological underpinnings of the ILDG, primarily the metadata and the middleware, and offer a critique of its various aspects with the hindsight of the design work and the first full year of production.