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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TO TUTORIAL

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The 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing,

Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'08), 1-4 December 2008

Dunedin, New Zealand

is hosting the following 3-hours tutorial:

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Title: The GRelC Project: advanced grid-database management

Organizers: S. Fiore, A. Negro, S. Vadacca, G. Aloisio - Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change
(CMCC) & University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Speakers: S. Fiore, A. Negro, S. Vadacca - Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) &
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

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Abstract:
In the proposed tutorial the speakers will talk in detail about the Grid Relational Catalog (GRelC)
Project, an integrated environment for grid database management, highlighting the vision/approach,
architecture, components, services and technological issues.
The key topic of the tutorial as well as of the demo will be the GRelC Data Access and Integration
Service. The GRelC DAIS is a GSI/VOMS enabled web service addressing extreme performance,
interoperability and security. It efficiently, securely and transparently manage databases on the
grid across VOs, with regard to emerging and consolidated grid standards and specifications as well
as production grid middleware (gLite & Globus).
It provides a uniform access interface, in grid, both to access and integrate relational (Mysql,
Oracle, Postgresql, IBM/DB2, SQLite) and non-relational data sources (XML DB engines such as eXist,
XIndice and libxml2 based documents).

Today the GRelC DAIS is part of the GILDA release (EGEE t-Infrastructure) and is included in the
EGEE Respect Program since is tightly coupled with the gLite middleware, the EGEE architecture and
the EGEE Training Infrastructure.
Currently the GRelC DAIS is used as the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC) Data
Grid framework.
The topics covered within the proposed tutorial are strongly connected with PDCAT08.
The main ones are:

• Grid Database Management System,
• Grid Data Access Service, Grid Data Integration Service, Data Grid Portal
• Grid Middleware: gLite, Globus
• Grid Architectures and Systems
• Peer-to-Peer Systems

Potential attendee profile
The targeted audience concerns people interested on the access, management and integration of
databases (relational and/or XML) in a grid environment (gLite and/or Globus based).
Some examples could be: bioinformatics (molecules/protein DBs), astrophysics (astronomic DBs),
climate scientists (metadata DBs for Earth Science) , system admins (for accounting and monitoring
purposes), etc.

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