Standardized data management in GridRPC environments

This paper details an extension to the GridRPC API that responds both to the data management needs of distributed applications and to middleware interoperability. It provides a minimal set of functions to handle a large set of data operations: movements, replications, migrations, persistency and data prefetch, which can be used by clients or workflow systems for example. We trust that this API covers all data operations required in GridRPC distributed environments.