ARDA Metadata Grid Application (AMGA)
- One of the most popular and widely used metadata catalog service in the Grid Community
- Provide and support a mechanism for locating scientific data files using descriptive information through Grid authentication
- Ensure competitive performance and scalability, along with a multi-threaded multi-process based on DB connection pooling, a hierarchical collection structure, replication and a federation mechanism
- KISTI(South Korea): one of the product teams of EMI, contributing to the evolution and maintenance of AMGA
- EMI-3(Mont Blanc) AMGA(v2.4.0) Release(May, 2012)
- Projects & Applications: BELLE II, WISDOM, DKRZ, DECIDE, AGINFRA, MDM, INDICATE, Digital Library, EUMEDGRID, Health e-Child, GISELA, etc.
Category
Middleware [2]
Scientific areas
Computing - Grid [3]
Computer and Information Science [5]
Main features
various authentication methods [6]
heterogeneous databases support [7]
multi-threaded multi-process hybrid model [9]
ACL-based fine-grained authorization capabilities [10]
Standard Database Access Interface [11]
Import pre-existing Database [12]
Hierarchical directory-like structure [13]
Replication [14]
Federation [15]
WS-DAIR [16]
AMGA Manager [17]
License
Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) [18]
Supported Operating Systems
Scientific Linux 6 [20]
Debian 6 [21]
Supported CPU Architectures
x86 [22]
x86-64 [23]
Programming languages
C [24]
C++ [25]
PHP [26]
Build tools
ETICS [27]
mock [28]
Test tools
ETICS [29]