Databases and the grid: who challenges whom?

  • Authors:
  • Malcolm P. Atkinson

  • Affiliations:
  • National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • BNCOD'03 Proceedings of the 20th British national conference on Databases
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An overview of e-Science and its data requirements exposes a number of challenges and opportunities. The Grid is an attempt to build a virtual abstract operating system, over an arbitrarily large globally distributed collection of heterogeneous resources. The Grid models of authentification, authorisation and accounting, aspire to delivering a single sign-on mechanism for access to this global computer. These models also support dynamic sharing and virtual organisations. The emerging model of composition is based on web services.