Towards a distributed scalable data service for the Grid

AdHoc (Adaptive Distributed Herd of Ob ject Caches) is a Grid-enabled, fast, scalable ob ject repository providing programmers with a general storage module. We present three different software tools based on AdHoc: A parallel cache for Apache, a DSM, a main-memory parallel file system. We also show that these tool exhibit a considerable performance and speedup both in absolute figures and w.r.t. other software tools exploiting the same features.