—All sciences, including astronomy, are now entering the era of information abundance. The exponentially increasing volume and complexity of modern data sets promises to transfor...
— For a peer-to-peer (P2P) system holding massive amount of data, an efficient and scalable search for resource sharing is a key determinant to its practical usage. Unstructured...
Luca Gatani, Giuseppe Lo Re, Alfonso Urso, Salvato...
Internet data centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtualized collection of resources while Grid computing generalizes distributed computing by focusing on large sc...
Large grid installations require global access to massive data stores. Parallel file systems give high throughput within a LAN, but cross-site data transfers lack seamless integra...
Data services for the Grid have focussed so far primarily on virtualising access to distributed databases, and encapsulating file location. However, orchestration of services requ...
Andrew Woolf, Ray Cramer, Marta Gutierrez, Kerstin...