Mobius project
Encyclopedia
The goal of the Mobius Project is to develop an array of tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid
and/or distributed computing
environment.
Mobius provides basic "building-block" services and protocols for data and metadata management that can be leveraged to allow for semantic queries across disparate datasets, the smooth translation of data models between parties, and the ad hoc creation of data warehouses. It will give the Grid and distributed computing communities and, especially, the scientific community on the Grid a means for efficient discovery of services and transparent exchange of data across and between institutions, and it will provide these communities with streamlined and easy to use mechanisms for large-scale data querying, storage, and retrieval across distributed resources.
Mobius was created by Shannon Hastings, Stephen Langella, and Scott Oster, all of whom were computer science researchers at The Ohio State University
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Grid computing
Grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files...
and/or distributed computing
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
environment.
Mobius provides basic "building-block" services and protocols for data and metadata management that can be leveraged to allow for semantic queries across disparate datasets, the smooth translation of data models between parties, and the ad hoc creation of data warehouses. It will give the Grid and distributed computing communities and, especially, the scientific community on the Grid a means for efficient discovery of services and transparent exchange of data across and between institutions, and it will provide these communities with streamlined and easy to use mechanisms for large-scale data querying, storage, and retrieval across distributed resources.
Mobius was created by Shannon Hastings, Stephen Langella, and Scott Oster, all of whom were computer science researchers at The Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
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