We present NeST, a flexible software-only storage appliance designed to meet the storage needs of the Grid. NeST has three key features that make it well-suited for deployment in...
John Bent, Venkateshwaran Venkataramani, Nick LeRo...
Service providers of the future could dynamically negotiate for, and create their infrastructure on Grid based utility computing and communication providers. Such commercialisatio...
Grid Resource Discovery Service is currently a very important focus of research. We propose a scheme that presents essential characteristics for efficient, self-configuring and fau...
Scientific applications require sophisticated data management capabilities. We present the design and implementation of a Data Replication Service (DRS), one of a planned set of h...
Ann L. Chervenak, Robert Schuler, Carl Kesselman, ...
In this paper, we describe the design of a highlyavailable Grid data storage system. Increased availability is ensured by data redundancy and file striping. Redundant data is com...