This whitepaper describes the OSiRIS project. OSiRIS provides a distributed, multi-institutional storage infrastructure that lets researchers write, manage, and share data from their own computing facility locations. Our goal is transparent, high-performance access to the same storage infrastructure from well-connected locations on any participating campus. The project includes network discovery, monitoring and management tools as well. OSiRIS will provide data sharing, archiving, security and life-cycle management implemented and maintained with a single distributed service.
