Editing Storage Resource Broker (section)

==History==
SRB development began in 1995, through the cooperative efforts of [[General Atomics]], the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Group (DICE), and the [[San Diego Supercomputer Center]] (SDSC) at the [[University of California, San Diego]] (UCSD) with the support of the [[National Science Foundation]] (NSF).

SRB builds on the work of Reagan Moore. Moore, a doctorate in plasma physics from UCSD and former computational plasma physicist at General Atomics, joined  the San Diego Supercomputer Center at its inception.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5247/is_39_24/ai_n29033639/ "San Diego Business Journal", 29 September 2003]{{Dead link |date= July 2013}}</ref>
A project for a distributed object computation testbed was funded by [[DARPA]] and the [[US Patent and Trademark Office]] in 1998 and 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Digging Into Data: Q&A with Reagan Moore |work=SDSC web site |url=http://www.sdsc.edu/profile/rmoore.html |access-date=17 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702051923/http://www.sdsc.edu/profile/rmoore.html |archive-date=2 July 2013 }}</ref>

In 2003, [[General Atomics]] was granted an exclusive license from UCSD to develop SRB for commercial applications.<ref>{{Cite news |title= General Atomics Acquires Exclusive License from UCSD for Commercialization of Unique Data Management Software |date= 22 September 2003 |work= Press release |publisher= General Atomics |url= http://media.ga.com/2003/09/22/general-atomics-acquires-exclusive-license-from-ucsd-for-commercialization-of-unique-data-management-software/ |accessdate= 17 July 2013 }}</ref>
New versions were announced in 2008 and 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |title= General Atomics, Nirvana Division releases SRB 2008 |date= 29 July 2008 |work= Press release |publisher= General Atomics |url= http://media.ga.com/2008/07/29/general-atomics-nirvana-division-releases-srb-2008/ |accessdate= 17 July 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= Nirvana SRB 2012 R3® Is Enhanced With Significant Caching Performance, Synchronization and Database Migration Improvements |date= 5 November 2012 |work= Press release |publisher= General Atomics |url= http://media.ga.com/2012/11/05/nirvana-srb-2012-r3-is-enhanced-with-significant-caching-performance-synchronization-and-database-migration-improvements/ |accessdate= 17 July 2013 |archive-date= 12 June 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150612180441/http://media.ga.com/2012/11/05/nirvana-srb-2012-r3-is-enhanced-with-significant-caching-performance-synchronization-and-database-migration-improvements/ |url-status= dead }}</ref>

The integrated Rule-Oriented Data management System (iRODS) is a follow-on project of the SDSC SRB team (which became the Data Intensive Cyber Environments group), and largely replaced the use of SRB.  iRODS is based on SRB concepts but was completely re-written, includes a highly-configurable rule engine at its core and is fully open source.
Conferences in 2011 included demonstrations of iRODS.<ref>{{Cite book |first1= Mike |last1= Conway |first2= Reagan |last2=Moore |first3= Arcot |last3= Rajasekar |first4= Jean-Yves |last4= Nief |title= 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks |chapter= Demonstration of Policy-Guided Data Preservation Using iRODS |pages= 173–174 |year= 2011 |isbn=978-0-7695-4330-7 |doi= 10.1109/POLICY.2011.17 |s2cid= 8684444 }}</ref>