Integrating the SRB with the GIGGLE framework

✍ Scribed by T.A. Barrass; O.J.E. Maroney; S. Metson; D. Newbold

• Book ID: 103854383
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 172 KB
• Volume: 534
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.07.056

✦ Synopsis

Distributed data transfer is currently characterised by the use of widely disparate tools, meaning that significant human effort is required to maintain the distributed system. In order to realise the possibilities represented by Grid infrastructure, the reality of a heterogenous computing environment must be tackled by providing means by which these disparate elements can communicate.

Two such data distribution tools are the SRB and the EU DataGrid's Data Management fabric, both widely used by many large scientific projects. Both provide similar functionality-the replication and cataloguing of datasets in a globally distributed environment. Significant quantities of data are currently stored in both. Moving data from the SRB to the EUDG, however, requires significant intervention and is therefore not scalable.

This paper presents a mechanism by which the SRB can automatically interact with the GIGGLE framework as implemented by the EUDG, allowing access to SRB data using Grid tools.