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Grid Provenance

Enabling and Supporting Provenance in Grids for Complex Problems The concept of Provenance is already well understood in the study of fine art where it refers to the trusted, documented history of some work of art. This same concept of Provenance may also be applied to data and information generated within a computer system; particularly when the information is subject to regulatory control over an extended period of time. Today's grid architectures suffer from limitations, such as lack of mechanisms to trace results and infrastructures to build up trusted networks. Provenance enables users to trace how a particular result has been arrived at by identifying the individual and aggregated services that produced a particular output. The overarching aim of the Provenance project is to design, conceive and implement an industrial-strength open provenance architecture for grid systems, and to deploy and evaluate it in complex grid applications, namely aerospace engineering and organ transplant management. The System Development Department contributes to the user and software requirements phase of this project, as well as to the deployment and evaluation of the organ transplant management application.

Participants

  • IBM United Kingdom Limited, United Kingdom
  • University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. , Germany
  • Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Szamitastechnikai es Automatizalasi Kutato Intezet, Rendszerfejlesztési Osztály, Hungary