Virtual data Grid middleware services for data‐intensive science
Yong Zhao, Michael Wilde, Ian T Foster, Jens Voeckler, James E. Dobson, Éric Gilbert, Thomas Jordan, Elizabeth Quigg · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience · 2005
Abstract The GriPhyN virtual data system provides a suite of components and services for data‐intensive sciences that enables scientists to systematically and efficiently describe, discover, and share large‐scale data and computational resources. We describe the design and implementation of such middleware services in terms of a virtual data system interface called Chiron, and present virtual data integration examples from the QuarkNet education project and from functional‐MRI‐based neuroscience research. The Chiron interface also serves as an online ‘educator’ for virtual data applications. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.