XSEDE Production Baseline: Information Services

Abstract

The term “XSEDE Production System” denotes the full suite of software and software-implemented services that XSEDE operates or makes available to its stakeholders, including, but not limited to, software developers, computational scientists, and XSEDE Service Providers (SPs). A “Baseline” is a term of art in software and system engineering that refers to a version of a system or system component that is significant in some way. This document describes the Information Services of the initial proposed (“v1.0”) XSEDE Production System Baseline. The objective of this document is therefore to: 1. describe SP and Enterprise software and services and the interfaces and mechanisms that implement information services; 2. Describe external system interfaces and what information they make available; 3. To describe the starting point from which requirements driven improvements will start; and 4. To provide technical design documentation to the broader XSEDE community.