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Figure 6 The main concept in tl he new data management approach is to be able to place the data staging element anywhere in the execution environment. I ample, the data storage e n the previous Open Science Grid ex- ement was an SRM/GridFTP/iRODS server placed near the compute resources. Let’s consider the same workflow, but this time running on an HPC cluster with a shared filesystem (Figure oh. Figure 6: Data management on a shared filesystem resource (only the remote execution environment is shown).