Evolution of an inter university data grid architecture in Pakistan

  • Authors:
  • Aslam Parvez Memon;Shakil Akhtar

  • Affiliations:
  • SZABIST, Karachi, Pakistan;College of Information Technology, UAE University, UAE

  • Venue:
  • SMO'05 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Simulation, modelling and optimization
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents an overview of a proposed grid architecture that interconnects the university campuses in Pakistan. The aim of this grid architecture is to provide access to the heterogeneous and scattered data resources, such as storage, cache and main memory by creating a virtual data store. The proposed grid is expected to facilitate research, scientific and development projects in the country. Due to resource constraints, provision of such facilities at one place is difficult to achieve in case of Pakistani universities. Keeping in view the utility and applications of data grids, a coordinated Inter-University Data Grid Infrastructure (UDGI) for Pakistani universities, has been proposed for harnessing the storage of multiple machines distributed across the networks. We provide some the details of the proposed architecture while the development, testing and implementation will be carried out in near future during the second phase of the project.