• DocumentCode
    829747
  • Title

    Scalable access to scientific data

  • Author

    Menascé, Daniel A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, USA
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    94
  • Lastpage
    96
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIC.2005.64
  • Filename
    1438311
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=829747