High energy & nuclear physics

Drawbacks and open issues

• Drawbacks and open issues

• maintenance protocols
• indexing tools
• access to data and negotiation
• query processing

Brokers act as interfaces between data, services and applications

• Brokers act as interfaces between data, services and applications

• Possible locations

• at the interface between the grid and the external data repositories
• on the grid storage elements
• at the interface between the grid and the user
• inside the network (e.g. routers)

• Open issues

• caching: computation results, query partial results…
• data indexing
• prefetching
• user’s customization
• inter brokers collaboration
• a key issue: security and privacy

Medical data belong to the patient that should be able to give access rights to who he wants

• Medical data belong to the patient that should be able to give access rights to who he wants

• To whom processed (even anonymous) data belong to ?

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