OODT's grid components earned its runner-up NASA Software of the Year Award in 2003.
Profile and Product Services
The OODT Profile (metadata) and Product (data) services together create virtual organizations for the grid, with both computational and data grid support. The four software components that comprise the grid services are:
- Product — Retrieves resources (products) in platform-neutral formats
- Profile — Describes and discovers resources using extensible metadata called "profiles"
- Web Grid — provides profile and product services over a REST-ful interface.
- XML Product/Profile Handlers — provides XML-configurable, Database profile and product handlers.