Practical Grid Storage Interoperation

In global Grids, interoperation is important. It enables communities to work together, helps prevent vendor lock-in, and in principle enables “cloud-like” resource provision by permitting different resources to meet needs from other communities. In this paper, we discuss a practical example of achieving interoperation between storage resources, and the lessons learned. The aim is to meet current use cases for interoperation with no additional software development. Apart from the practical results, experiences from this work will be relevant to other interoperation activities.

[1]  Warren Smith,et al.  A directory service for configuring high-performance distributed computations , 1997, Proceedings. The Sixth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (Cat. No.97TB100183).

[2]  Ákos Frohner,et al.  From gridmap-file to VOMS: managing authorization in a Grid environment , 2005, Future Gener. Comput. Syst..

[3]  Flavia Donno,et al.  The INFN-Grid Testbed , 2005, Future Gener. Comput. Syst..

[4]  J.G. Jensen,et al.  Experiences with implementing the SRM protocol and configuring and packaging modular systems , 2005, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technology.

[5]  Pawel Wolniewicz,et al.  International Grid CA Interworking, Peer Review and Policy Management Through the European DataGrid Certification Authority Coordination Group , 2005, EGC.

[6]  Jens Jensen,et al.  GridPP : Running a Production Grid , 2006 .

[7]  A. D. Meglio,et al.  Programming the Grid with gLite , 2006 .

[8]  Maria Lodovica Gullino,et al.  Scope of the Project , 2008 .

[9]  Gábor Terstyánszky,et al.  Grid Interoperability for e-Research , 2009, Journal of Grid Computing.

[10]  Shaowen Wang,et al.  Interoperation of world‐wide production e‐Science infrastructures , 2009, Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp..