Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) is a grid computing middleware introduced by NorduGrid. It provides a common interface for submission of computational tasks to different distributed computing systems and thus can enable grid infrastructures of varying size and complexity. ARC includes data staging and caching functionality, developed in order to support data-intensive grid computing. ARC is an open source software distributed under the Apache License.
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