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Introduction

The data management services of WP2 are a set of coordinated high-level grid middleware services for Grid data management, including file I/O, mass storage, data access and replication. These services are:

The framework coordinating file cataloguing, replication and copying is called the EDG Replica Manager (or Reptor) [1]. Reptor is the Grid user's entry point to the entire set of WP2 services. In this document the functionality and usage of the Reptor is described in detail. For details of the Reptor service design, we refer the reader to [1,2,7].



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2004-06-14