Data-Intensive Science

CHAPTER 7

Data-Intensive Production Grids

Bob Jones and Ian Bird

CONTENTS

7.1    Introduction

7.2    Why a Grid?

7.3    Production Infrastructure

7.4    Large Hadron Collider Achievements in Its First Year

7.5    Linking Data and Publication

7.5.1    An Example from Life Science

7.6    Evolution of the European Grid Infrastructure

7.6.1    Enabling Grids for e-Science to European Grid Infrastructure Transition

7.7    Lessons Learned and Anticipated Evolution

References

7.1    INTRODUCTION

Science is fundamental to addressing the problems confronting our planet and our lives, and data are fundamental to science. The science we do now requires ever-increasing datasets that need flexible and powerful computing systems to process them. Computing ...