TY  - CONF
T1  - Transaction-Based Grid Database Replication
T2  - UK e-Science Al l Hands Meeting 2007
Y1  - 2007
A1  - Y. Chen
A1  - D. Berry
A1  - P. Dantressangle
KW  - Grid, Replication, Transaction-based, OGSA-DAI
AB  - We present a framework for grid database replication. Data replication is one of the most useful  strategies to achieve high levels of availability and fault tolerance as well as minimal access time in  grids. It is commonly demanded by many grid applications. However, most existing grid replication  systems only deal with read-only files. By contrast, several relational database vendors provide  tools that offer transaction-based replication, but the capabilities of these products are insufficient to  address grid issues. They lack scalability and cannot cope with the heterogeneous nature of grid  resources.  Our approach uses existing grid mechanisms to provide a metadata registry and to make initial  replicas of data resources. We then define high-level APIs for managing transaction-based  replication. These APIs can be mapped to a variety of relational database replication mechanisms  allowing us to use existing vendor-specific solutions. The next stage in the project will use OGSA-  DAI to manage replication across multiple domains. In this way, our framework can support  transaction-based database synchronisation that maintains consistency in a data-intensive, large-  scale distributed, disparate networking environment.
JF  - UK e-Science Al l Hands Meeting 2007
CY  - Nottingham, UK
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
T1  - FireGrid: Integrated emergency response and fire safety engineering for the future built environment
T2  - All Hands Meeting 2005
Y1  - 2006
A1  - D. Berry
A1  - Usmani, A.
A1  - Torero, J.
A1  - Tate, A.
A1  - McLaughlin, S.
A1  - Potter, S.
A1  - Trew, A.
A1  - Baxter, R.
A1  - Bull, M.
A1  - Atkinson, M.
AB  - Analyses of disasters such as the Piper Alpha explosion (Sylvester-Evans and Drysdale, 1998), the World Trade Centre collapse (Torero et al, 2002, Usmani et al, 2003) and the fires at Kings Cross (Drysdale et al, 1992) and the Mont Blanc tunnel (Rapport Commun, 1999) have revealed many mistaken decisions, such as that which sent 300 fire-fighters to their deaths in the World Trade Centre. Many of these mistakes have been attributed to a lack of information about the conditions within the fire and the imminent consequences of the event.    E-Science offers an opportunity to significantly improve the intervention in fire emergencies. The FireGrid Consortium is working on a mixture of research projects to make this vision a reality. This paper describes the research challenges and our plans for solving them.
JF  - All Hands Meeting 2005
CY  - Nottingham, UK
ER  - 

TY  - Generic
T1  - Development of a Grid Infrastructure for Functional Genomics
T2  - Life Science Grid Conference (LSGrid 2004)
Y1  - 2004
A1  - Sinnott, R. O.
A1  - Bayer, M.
A1  - Houghton, D.
A1  - D. Berry
A1  - Ferrier, M.
JF  - Life Science Grid Conference (LSGrid 2004)
T3  - LNCS
PB  - Springer Verlag
CY  - Kanazawa, Japan
ER  -