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. A project for a distributed object computation testbed was funded by DARPA and the US Patent and Trademark Office in 1998 and 1999. In 2003, General Atomics was granted an exclusive license from UCSD to develop SRB for commercial applications. New versions were announced in 2008 and 2012. 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. References Bibliography External links DICE Storage Resource Broker (SRB) iRODS Website Nirvana Wikipedia page Middleware Grid computing products