Project Spitfire - Towards Grid Web Service Databases

Motivation (problems addressed): The motivation is to provide a secure grid enabled database service to permit access to a wide range of relational database systems. Current database solutions are neither grid enabled nor web service enabled. The combination of grid and web service technologies together with databases provides one of the key building blocks upon which many other grid services and grid enabled applications depend. It permits a wide variety of database solutions to be accessed remotely and securely using a uniform service interface. PROJECT SPITFIRE – TOWARDS GRID WEB SERVICE DATABASES (ON BEHALF OF THE EU DATAGRID AND GRIDPP PROJECTS) William H. Bell, Diana Bosio, Wolfgang Hoschek, Peter Kunszt, Gavin McCance, Mika Silander 1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Scotland. 2 CERN IT Division – European organisation for Nuclear Research, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland. 3 Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland.