Q:Information: - The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: "Organisation europeenne pour la recherche nucleaire"), known as CERN (derived from the name ""Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire""; see "History"), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the FrancoSwiss border, and has 22 member states. Israel is the only non-European country granted full membership. - Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa (DATA) was a multinational non-government organization founded in January 2002 in London by U2's Bono along with Bobby Shriver and activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt campaign. - gLite (pronounced "gee-lite") is a middleware computer software project for grid computing used by the CERN LHC experiments and other scientific domains. It was implemented by collaborative efforts of more than 80 people in 12 different academic and industrial research centers in Europe. gLite provides a framework for building applications tapping into distributed computing and storage resources across the Internet. The gLite services were adopted by more than 250 computing centres and used by more than 15000 researchers in Europe and around the world. - Grid computing is the collection of computer resources from multiple locations to reach a common goal. The grid can be thought of as a distributed system with non-interactive workloads that involve a large number of files. Grid computing is distinguished from conventional high performance computing systems such as cluster computing in that grid computers have each node set to perform a different task/application. Grid computers also tend to be more heterogeneous and geographically dispersed (thus not physically coupled) than cluster computers. Although a single grid can be dedicated to a particular application, commonly a grid is used for a variety of purposes. Grids are often constructed with general-purpose grid middleware software libraries. Grid sizes can be quite large. - The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a "network of networks" that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing. - The ARDA Metadata Grid Application ( AMGA ) is a general purpose metadata catalogue and part of the European Middleware Initiative middleware distribution . It was originally developed by the EGEE project as part of its gLite middleware , when it became clear that many Grid applications needed metadata information on files and to organize a work - flow . AMGA is now developed and supported by the European Middleware Initiative . AMGA as a metadata service allows users to attach metadata information to files stored on the Grid , where metadata can be any relationally organized data typically stored in a relational database system ( RDBMS ) . In addition , the metadata in AMGA can also be stored independently of any associated files , which allows AMGA to be used as a general access tool to relational databases on the Grid . AMGA features a simple to learn metadata access language , which has been very useful for the adoption of AMGA in smaller Grid applications , as it considerably lowers the technical hurdle to make use of relational data . Access via SQL92 is also supported . One of the main features of AMGA , and one unique to it , is the possibility to replicate metadata between different AMGA instances allowing the federation of metadata ( e.g. By the Health - e - child project ) , but also to increase the scalability and improve the access times on a globally deployed Grid ( as done by the Wisdom project ) . Performance and efficiency of the access across WANs has been independently targeted by an access protocol optimised for the bulk transfer of metadata across WANs using data streaming . Security on the Grid is a major concern , and AMGA features different authentication methods via ( Grid - Proxy - ) Certificates as well as very flexible accesses control mechanisms for individual data items based on ACLs . In particular these security features have made AMGA the de facto standard for metadata and relational database access on the Grid for biomedical applications . Prominent projects making use of... - Metadata is "data [information] that provides information about other data". Three distinct types of metadata exist: descriptive metadata, structural metadata, and administrative metadata. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'glite-amga'. 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