Speaker
Nuno Santos
(CERN)
Description
We present the AMGA Metadata Catalogue, which was developed
as part of the EGEE
(Enabling Grids for EsciencE) project's gLite Grid middleware.
AMGA provides access to metadata for files stored on the
Grid, as well as a
simplified general access to relational data stored in
database systems. Design and
implementation of AMGA was done in close collaboration with
the very diverse EGEE
user community to make sure all functionality, performance
and security requirements
were met. In particular, AMGA targets the needs of the High
Energy Physics user
community to rapidly access very large amounts of metadata
as well as the needs for
security of the biomedical community. AMGA therefore tightly
integrates fine grained
Access Control List based security making use of a Virtual
Organisation management
system. In addition, AMGA offers advanced federation and
replication features to
increase dependability, performance and data security.
Authors
Birger Koblitz
(CERN)
Nuno Santos
(CERN)
