Petrel Data Service Testbed

PI Name Ian Foster and Mike Papka
PI Institution Argonne National Laboratory
Project Description

To study use cases, implementation methods, policies, and operational characteristics of a campus storage service.

Testbed

The Petrel testbed has 32 GridFTP servers co-located with 1.7 TB storage. Installed software includes GPFS for parallel file system operations, Globus Connect Server software for remote access, and Globus Nexus identity and group management system to permit group-based access control to storage allocations http://petrel.alcf.anl.gov.