Wednesday, December 8, 2010

UCSD - University of California, San Diego

http://www.ucsd.edu/

Dr. Bing Zhu a member of the DICE UCSD team.  Also an author for iRODS.  His team has been incharge of the software design and development in Windows for SRB and now for iRODS.

Can be reached at 'bzhu@diceresearch.org' or 'bizhu@ucsd.edu'

Monday, November 15, 2010

SRB - Storage Resource Broker

http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/index.php/Main_Page

This page doesn't give a definition.  I believe that the definition came from the iRODS primer book.


Thursday, November 11, 2010

Jargon - a Java Client API for the iRODS DataGrid

http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/index.php/Jargon


Reading the iRODS Primer



The Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) Data Grid.

data grid - assembles data into a logical collection.

Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE).

Storage Resource Broker (SRB) Data Grid.

DICE SRB Data Grid.

metadata catalog (iCAT).

Adaptive Middleware Architecture (AMA).

Rule-Oriented Programming (ROP).

Rule for deferred execution.

ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) database properties.

Rule Execution Infrastructure (REI).


Deep Archive - ?

Seems to be related to compression or with age.


It could also be related to not being able to be cataloged with web spiders.

SHAMON - Sustaining Heritage Access Through Multivalent Archiving

http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en80/special/shaman

This took a little work to find.  A search of SHAMAN get lost in all the WOW (World of Warcraft) results.


Slide show.


ACM article.

A digital archive preservation environment.


Taverna - Open Source and Domain Independent Workflow Management

http://www.taverna.org.uk/

Comes out of UK and its API is supported in iRODS.

Kepler - an API for analyzing and modeling scientific data

https://kepler-project.org/users/faq

Supported by iRODS.