Glossary
- Contract
- GNDMS negotiates contracts with clients about task execution. A contract specifies what is to be done, and optionally when and where it is to be done by GNDMS on behalf of the client. Contracts are accepted Offers.
- Data Provider
- In C3-Grid, data providers are sites that run GNDMS with the Staging Plugin in order to grant access to their local climate data archives.
- DMS
- Often used for the (or a) central data management coordination site of a community grid.
- DMS-Publish
- In C3-Grid, load balancing publish to a dedicated storage server.
- DMS-Staging
- In C3-Grid, indirection of a staging request to a matching data provider or cache.
- DSpace
- Workspace management service of GNDMS. Each DSpace is structured into a set of subspaces (Logical stroage group). Each subspace consists of multiple slices (Non-hierachical container of files).
- GNDMS
- Generation N Data Management System. A data management solution for community grids based on the Globus Toolkit 4 Middleware.
- GORFX (aka Generic Offer Request Factory X)
- Service for the negotation of data management task execution.
- Offer
- Cf. Contract, offers are the subjects of contract negotiation, Offers are not-yet accepted contracts.
- Offer Request
- Description of a task and required offer constraints.
- Publish
- In C3-Grid, publishing of intermediary results
- Publish-Host
- Host that provides storage resources for Publish. Needs to run DSpace and GORFX configured for support of the Publish task.
- Staging
- In C3-Grid, import of climate data from external archives into the data management infrastructure of the community grid.