13–17 Oct 2025
Hotel Exe Campus
Europe/Madrid timezone

Pelican and XRootD: Moving Petabytes for the broader US Science and Engineering community

16 Oct 2025, 10:10
20m
Lluis Vives I (Hotel Exe Campus)

Lluis Vives I

Hotel Exe Campus

Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

Speaker

Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

Description

The NSF-funded Pelican project provides a software platform for data federations for the broad US's Science and Engineering community. The flagship instance of Pelican is the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF) which moves over 100PB a year and connects data from a broad set of science domains, from particle physics to earth systems.

Peeling back enough layers and you'll find an xrootd server that is actually moving the data for Pelican.

This talk provides an overview of how Pelican leverages the XRootD software and how it has served the science community in the last two years.

Author

Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))

Presentation materials