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RUTGERS LIBRARIES INSTALL INFERNO DATA GRID TO SUPPORT CETH
Vita Nuova announced that Rutgers University Libraries (New Jersey) have
installed the Inferno Data Grid to help support the Center for Electronic
Texts in the Humanities (CETH). The Inferno Data Grid will be used to support
academics who wish to get access to large volumes of data relating to the
classics and ancient philosophy.
CETH has a large number of original texts and translations relating to the
works of Aristotle and other early philosophers. This data is located on a
collection of Linux machines but is accessed by lecturers and researchers, for
the main part, from Windows PCs. The Inferno Data Grid provides a single
logical file system which can be explored by researchers. Files can be copied
on to a researcher's local machine for offline study. The Grid also enables
those with the right credentials to annotate existing files and add new files
back into the data Grid.
"On the surface what we wanted to accomplish at CETH was simple: the ability
to access file resources distributed across multiple machines, securely and
intuitively," said Brian Hancock, digital projects librarian at CETH. "Until
we discovered the Inferno Data Grid this was not a simple task. We are not
computer scientists nor are the people we serve, so it was important that the
technology we chose would be simple and effective. We are very pleased with
the outcome."
"It has been very satisfying to collaborate with the CETH at Rutgers
University to solve this interesting problem," said Michael Jeffrey, CEO of
Vita Nuova. "Inferno's model of representing all resources as names in a
file-like hierarchy is ideal for use in data Grids. We can provide users with
a single logical view of a collection of data irrespective of where the data
resides or on what platform. Should CETH wish to move their data from a Linux
to a UNIX or Windows platform, there will be no recoding required."
Vita Nuova's Data and Computational Grid software is being used by a
significant number of commercial organizations and universities. The Inferno
Computational Grid software is being targeted at the life sciences and
financial sectors, while the Data Grid has applicability to anyone who has
large amounts of distributed data.
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