Title :
Scalable access to scientific data
Author :
Menascé, Daniel A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA
Abstract :
The author use a simple analytic model to analyze the scalability of an infrastructure that generates high-level data products derived from raw data and then delivers them in response to user requests. He also discusses the concept of metadata and how it generally facilitates access to scientific data.
Keywords :
Internet; information retrieval; meta data; scientific information systems; Internet; information retrieval; metadata; scientific data access; Earth Observing System; Equations; Information retrieval; Internet; Physics computing; Planets; Satellite ground stations; Scalability; Space exploration; Throughput; distributed active archive centers; high-level data products; metadata;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2005.64
