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Foil 7 3. Possible Next Steps: Where is RIB Now?

From Master Set of Foils for 1996 Session of CPS615 NHSE Review Argonne -- September 30 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski


1 Note that the RIB is "just" a federation of relational databases with a rather simple database structure (a few tables)
  • RIB software emulates RDBMS with file systems using classic Perl CGI technology
2 Current RIB offers adequate solution for the current software repository needs of the HPCC community and the package is in fact used by a growing number of software libraries in the HPCC area such as HPC-Netlib, PTlib, and CSIR.
3 To broaden the RIB customer base, one would need to improve the underlying software infrastructure, which is currently based on somewhat dated Web'95 technologies.
4 Required improvements include: concurrency control, RDBMS based persistency support, electronic licensing, file/package/repository mirroring and mobility,remote execution support etc.

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