Dynamic federations: the Uniform Generic Redirector (UGR) (Dynamic federations: storage aggregation using open tools and protocols)
The Unifor Generic Redirector (UGR) is the core of the Storage federation system that we designed and built to match with the existing and upcoming Grid-related data management architectures. The system is able to federate storage sites and metadata endpoints that expose a suitable data access protocol, into a transparent, high performance storage federation that exposes a unique name space. The architecture can accommodate LFN/PFN algorithmic name translations without the need of catalogues. On the other hand,
