Enabling Grid access to mass storage: Architecture and design of the EDG storage element

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 101-112

  Jensen, Jens G ^a   Shah, Tara ^a   Synge, Owen ^a   Gordon, John ^a   Johnson, Glen ^a   Tam, Regina ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grid protocols; Grid storage; Mass storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844475477     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-005-9000-x     Document Type: Article

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