[gin] FW: PRESS RELEASE: SRM-SRB Interface: A new milestone for gridinteroperation

Tue May 26 09:03:27 CDT 2009

FYI: GIN was one catalyzer of this work

Congratulations for this work!

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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: SRM-SRB Interface: A new milestone for
gridinteroperation

SRM-SRB Interface: A new milestone for grid interoperation

Chapel Hill, 26 May 2009

ASGC (Academia Sinica Grid Computing) launches the SRM-SRB Interface
Software Version 1.0 release today at OGF 26.   This is exciting news for
the Grid community.  Interoperation between the two most commonly deployed
data solutions, SRM (Storage Resource Manager) and SRB (Storage Resource
Broker) is a great step towards pragmatic solutions for Grid interoperation.

Both SRM and SRB offer ways of accessing the storage available on a grid —
using either tapes, disks or disk arrays. However, storage elements running
SRB cannot be accessed by a grid running SRM, and vice versa.  Most grids
run by using either one of these two solutions for storage.  If different
grid infrastructures are to interoperate, then the two standards need to
work together.

As a component of Enabling Grids for E-sciencE’s gLite middleware that
features dynamic space and file management, SRM is currently a widely
adopted interface to the storage management system of production grids. The
development of SRM-SRB Interface not only makes the popular SRB data grid
system interoperable with the EGEE infrastructure, but also strengthens SRB
with additional functionalities such as space reservation and Virtual
Organisation support.

By using the GridFTP data transfer protocol and advanced data management
tools, such as AMGA – the gLite Metadata Catalogue – data can be transferred
between SRM and SRB.  In SRM-SRB Interface, AMGA is used to implement the
File catalog as well as to provide a uniform interface for replication
management and to the backend database.

SRM-SRB Interface makes SRB an archival system of the gLite-based
e-Infrastructure, supports a flexible lifetime policy for files – volatile,
durable and permanent – as well as imposing the same VO-based resource
policy and security control to SRB as the Grid infrastructure.

To install SRM-SRB Interface, please refer to
http://www2.twgrid.org/APTeam/index.php/SRM-SRB_Installation.

Notes for Editors

1.      For more information on SRM-SRB Interface, please see
http://www2.twgrid.org/SRM-SRB/, email:
srm-srb-dev at lists.grid.sinica.edu.tw.

2.      For more information on SRM, please see http://sdm.lbl.gov/srm-wg/.

3.      For more information on SRB, please see
http://www.sdsc.edu/srb/index.php/Main_Page

4.      For more information about Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE),
please see http://www.eu-egee.org/

5.      For more information on the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre
(ASGC), please see http://www.twgrid.org

About Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

Press contact: Neasan O’Neill, EGEE Press and Events Manager, +44 (0)79 6281
8712, n.oneill at qmul.ac.uk.

The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project is co-funded by the European
Commission. The project aims to provide researchers in both academia and
industry with access to major computing resources, independent of their
geographic location.

EGEE's main aims are:

1. To build a secure, reliable and robust grid infrastructure
2. To supply a computing service for many scientific disciplines
3. To attract, engage and support a wide range of users from science and
industry, and provide them with extensive technical and training support.

For more information see http://www.eu-egee.org or contact Catherine Gater,
EGEE Dissemination, Outreach and Communications Manager, on + 41 (0)22 767
41 76 or email Catherine.Gater at cern.ch.

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