Volume 2, Number 4, 341-351, DOI: 10.1007/s10723-004-5745-x

Replica Management in the European DataGrid Project

David Cameron, James Casey, Leanne Guy, Peter Kunszt, Sophie Lemaitre, Gavin McCance, Heinz Stockinger, Kurt Stockinger, Giuseppe Andronico and William Bell, et al.

From the issue entitled "The EU DataGrid Setting the Basis for Production Grids"

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Abstract

Within the European DataGrid project, Work Package 2 has designed and implemented a set of integrated replica management services for use by data intensive scientific applications. These services, based on the web services model, enable movement and replication of data at high speed from one geographical site to another, management of distributed replicated data, optimization of access to data, and the provision of a metadata management tool. In this paper we describe the architecture and implementation of these services and evaluate their performance under demanding Grid conditions.

Keywords  data intensive computing - data replication - data transfer - Grid computing

This work was partially funded by the European Commission program IST- 2000-25182 through the European DataGrid Project.

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