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Chapter 1<br />

Introduction<br />

The growth of the Internet has enabled the sharing of data <strong>and</strong> has improved<br />

the collaboration of major science projects between academics <strong>and</strong><br />

researchers around the world.<br />

The deployment of data Grids <strong>and</strong> compute Grids will further increase the<br />

productivity of large scale compute <strong>and</strong> data intensive applications by distributing<br />

processing <strong>and</strong> storage subsystems around the world. Through the<br />

implementation of middleware, Grids will rely on existing hardware solutions<br />

such as RAID storage systems <strong>and</strong> Internet communications.<br />

1.1 Research Motivation<br />

This dissertation begins by looking <strong>into</strong> data grids where the storage <strong>and</strong><br />

retrieval of large data sets are important - where jobs are limited primarily<br />

by the retrieval of data over the Internet rather than the processing of it.<br />

Several key aims are pursued:<br />

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