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Description
The Spin Physics Detector (SPD), currently under construction at the NICA complex at JINR, is expected to generate large volumes of data. It is therefore assumed that at least some members of the SPD Collaboration will contribute significant computing and storage resources. Unlike in large-scale grids, the number of participating sites is not so large and most of them will be located in Russia and directly connected to the Russian scientific backbone, which makes it reasonable to consider these resources as a federation from both computing and storage perspective: all decisions regarding resource allocation and management will be made centrally, while participating organisations will retain control over their resources in terms of volume and local administration.
In this talk we will present the current status of the SPD resource federation for offline computing on several sites, the software used and the future plans.