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Profile
  Project Title: Distributed Query Processing on the Grid
  Department/University School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne &
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
  Investigators
Manchester
- Norman Paton (email, www, +44 161 275 6910)
- Alvaro A.A. Fernandes (email, www, +44 161 275 6199)
- Rizos Sakellariou (email, www, +44 161 275 6257)
Newcastle
- Paul Watson (email, www, +44 191 222 7653)
  Research Associates
Manchester
- M. Nedim Alpdemir (email, +44 161 275 6138)
- Tasos Gounaris (email, www, +44 161 275 5721)
Newcastle
- Arijit Mukherjee (email, www, +44 191 222 7856)
- Jim Smith (email, www, +44 191 222 7873)
  Project Description The computing research project Polar* is investigating issues concerning distributed query processing on the grid, in particular through the design of a system that can adapt to exploit both changes in the pool of Grid resources, and run-time information on computational behaviour.
  Project web site http://www.ncl.ac.uk/polarstar
Resources
  Polar* Leaflet (PDF format)
  Polar* video (Real format) - You may need to save it to your local drive before watching it.