The Globus Data Grid Effort: Architecture
The Globus Project focuses on challenges associated with collaborative science and engineering spanning multiple organizations. It is our intent to offer a generic data grid infrastructure in the form of core data transfer services and generic data management libraries. These fundamental building blocks can then be used in a variety of interesting ways to build systems and applications for specific end users.
The distributed scientific computing community has envisioned a number of strategies for supporting the needs of collaborative, data-intensive science and engineering. We offer the following papers that outline our proposed strategy.
- The Data Grid: Towards an Architecture for the Distributed Management and Analysis of Large Scientific Datasets
- Protocols and Services for Distributed Data-Intensive Science
- Secure, Efficient Data Transport and Replica Management for High-Performance Data-Intensive Computing
- Replica Selection in the Globus Data Grid