Objective
The On-Line Data Archives (OLDA) project is designing and prototyping
systems for on-demand access to large distributed data archives, and
demonstrating high performance solutions to time-critical applications
requiring large datasets.
Introduction
The On-Line Data Archives project is managed under the On-Line Data
Archives Program of the Advanced Computational Systems CRC. It is
concerned with the delivery of decision support data products derived
from active archives of large data sets. Active archives available on
wide-area broadband networks allow users to browse data catalogues,
schedule the creation of decision support information, and obtain the
information on-demand.
Users include those in the agribusiness, defence, emergency services and
mineral exploration business sectors. The OLDA project is developing
prototype demonstrations of a distributed high performance computing
infrastructure known as DISCWorld P which provides the middleware to glue
together computing systems and data archives distributed around Australia.
The OLDA project is structured around core research activities and a
postgraduate education program, with collaborative demonstration
development projects leveraging off the research. OLDA has two main
development teams based in Adelaide and in Canberra.
The project is
- Developing metacomputing middleware.
- Developing software demonstrators for collaborators and clients.
- Providing consulting services in high-performance computing, and use of
object-oriented software environments such as Java and CORBA in
developing networked applications for distributed data management and
processing.
- Developing training material to help industry use high performance and
distributed computing systems.
