CEDPS : Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science

PIs:
Ian T. Foster

People Involved:
John Bresnahan, Tim Freeman, Kate Keahey, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Michael Link, Ravi Madduri

Other Institutes:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California , Dept of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison , Computing Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Funding:
DOE SciDAC program

[project website]

Abstract:
The SciDAC-funded Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science (CEDPS) will produce technical innovations designed to allow for

• (a) rapid and dependable data placement within a distributed high-performance environment and


• (b) the convenient construction of scalable science services that provide for the reliable and high-performance processing of computation and data analysis requests from many remote clients.