HPSGRID: High Performance Storage for Grid Environments TIN2004-02156

Data management is one of most important problem in grid environments. Most of the efforts in data management in grids have been focused in data replication. Data replication is a practical and effective method to achieve efficient data access in grids. However, all data replication schemes lack in to provide a grid file system. One important challenge facing grid computing is the design of a grid file system. The Open Grid Forum defines a Grid File System as a human-readable resource namespace for management of heterogeneous distributed data resources, that can span across multiple autonomous administrative domains. This project tries to investigate and to develop technologies that allow to use and integrate the resources and existing solutions to build a high performance, fault tolerance and secure grid file system for grids environment.