Grid Database Projects

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Grid Database Projects

• Paul Watson, Newcastle
• Norman Paton, Manchester

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Distributed Queries on the Grid
Client
Query
Compute Server
Compute Server
Compute Server
Database
Database
Database
Grid
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Distributed Queries on the Grid
Client
Query
Compute Server
Compute Server
Compute Server
Database
Database
Database
Grid
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Distributed Queries on the Grid
Client
Utilise Grid resources for joins
Query
Compute Server
Compute Server
Compute Server
Database
Database
Database
Grid
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Distributed Queries on the Grid
Client
Parallelism
Query
Compute Server
Compute Server
Compute Server
Database
Database
Database
Grid
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Research

• Foundation
• Goldrush Polar Parallel Database Server
  Projects
• Issues
• Schema Integration
• Query execution infrastructure
• Adapting to changing information
• Adapting to failures

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Projects

• Polar
• parallel query processing over the Grid
• EPSRC (DIM)
• Database Access Integration
• Grid-database integration
• EPSRC/DTI/Oracle/IBM
• MyGrid
• Grid infrastructure to support biologists
• EPSRC (e-Science)

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MyGrid
User Applications
Workflow
Processing
Information Processing
Location
Querying
Notification
Files
Files
Databases
Files
Web
Metadata
Databases
Information