Rick McGeer, Joe Mambretti, Paul Mueller, Chris Matthews, Chris Pearson, Yvonne Coady, Jim Chen, Fei Yeh, Andy Bavier, Marco Yuen, Jessica Blaine, Alvin AuYoung, Alex Snoeren, and Justin Cappos
This general problem: large, heterogeneous data, spread over a distributed computing infrastructure with varying connectivity and no common administrative interface – is ubiquitous through the natural, social, and engineering sciences. We are designing and implementing a computing infrastructure which addresses the distributed data management and query problem, and deploy it in a live service.