What is CTSS?

Note: After ten years of service to the national science and engineering community, the TeraGrid project has ended. It is succeeded by a new National Science Foundation (NSF) program, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). You should move any data stored on TeraGrid systems to an alternate storage resource. If you have leftover service units on your TeraGrid allocation, or if your research requires further use of high performance computational, visualization, storage, and network resources, consider applying for an allocation on one or more XSEDE digital services.

Coordinated TeraGrid Software and Services (CTSS) is a set of software packages and services implemented on various TeraGrid compute, visualization, and data resources. CTSS software is grouped into task-oriented Capability Kits, each implementing a set of related capabilities based on the needs of researchers, such as running jobs, moving data, or computing remotely.

Since the TeraGrid is a collection of heterogeneous resources, not all resources may be appropriate for a specific task, and hence not all kits are available on all the resources. The CTSS Core Integration Kit is available on all TeraGrid resources, as each TeraGrid resource is required to implement it. This kit provides a minimal set of capabilities that allow coordinated operation of the TeraGrid system by TeraGrid staff.

For information about the function and availability of the remaining Capability Kits, see the CTSS Overview.

For more information about the kits, see the CTSS Capability Kit Definitions.

The current version of CTSS is version 4.

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