Distributed Services Platform
NRP provides a global platform for institutions to deploy distributed services, including compute, storage, and networking, with resilience and low-latency access for research and education.
How it helps
Distributed infrastructure benefits
Standardized environments
Control software and configurations across sites using containerized images for consistency and reproducibility.
Industry-standard orchestration API
A standardized Kubernetes API and resource model make it easy to develop, deploy, and integrate services using familiar primitives (Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps).
Fault tolerance
Distributed sites reduce single points of failure so experiments and services remain available even when individual nodes or even entire sites go offline.
Data locality
Keep data close to compute to reduce latency and improve throughput for large datasets and real-time experiments.
Scalability
Grow your workloads across multiple sites to access more CPU, GPU, and storage resources on demand.
Secure networking & isolation
Encrypted site-to-site links, network segmentation, and tenant isolation protect traffic and reduce the risk of lateral movement.
How the Open Science Data Federation uses NRP's distributed infrastructure
OSDF leverages NRP's global resources to host services without the worry of system administration.
Building on the NRP
The Open Science Data Federation (OSDF) connects disparate dataset repositories into a single, nation-wide data distribution network. The OSDF leverages the NRP's distributed infrastructure to host its services without the worry of system administration. By utilizing the NRP's global network of compute and storage resources, the OSDF can ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and low-latency access to data for researchers across the country.Distributed Caches
The OSDF caches are distributed across multiple NRP sites to provide low-latency access to data for researchers nationwide.
Local Origins
Origins are hosted on hardware near the data source, owned by the data provider, while leveraging the NRP for service hosting.