Welcome to the home page for Work Package 2 of the European DataGrid project.

Events

•  EDG project conference Heidelberg

Latest News

• Release 2.1 page
• FAQ describing file registration possibilites for release 2.0.
•  EDG 2.0 Release notes for WP2
• WP2 Website updated. 11.03.2003
•  Deployment of RLS and RMC on the EDG Development Testbed started. 10.03.2003
•  TB2.0 Release planning overview online.
  

See the previous News items.

WP2 Description

The goal of this work package is to specify, develop, integrate and test tools and middleware infrastructure to coherently manage and share petabyte-scale information volumes in high-throughput production quality grid environments. The work package will develop a general purpose information sharing solution with unprecedented automation, ease of use, scalability, uniformity, transparency and heterogeneity.

It will allow to securely access massive amounts of data in a universal global name space, to move and replicate data at high speed from one geographical site to another, and to manage synchronisation of remote replicas. Novel software for automated wide-area data caching and distribution will act according to dynamic usage patterns. Generic interfacing to heterogeneous mass storage management systems will enable seamless and efficient integration of distributed resources.

Please also see the original proposal of work in the Technical Annex of the DataGrid.