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  The Globus Consortium - FAQ
The Globus Consortium is comprised of global computing leaders who support the Globus Toolkit - the de facto standard for open source grid computing infrastructure - for use in enterprise data centers.
Through the Globus Consortium, vendors of hardware, software and their customers can work together to accelerate use of the Globus Toolkit in the enterprise by hardening features and speaking with one voice on emerging Grid standards.
The Globus Consortium was formed to advance the open source Globus Toolkit through promotion, support, development, research, education and the embrace of open standards for Grid.
www.globusconsortium.com /faq/index.shtml   (577 words)

  
 Globus Toolkit for HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX and Linux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A primary product of the Globus Alliance is the open source Globus Toolkit ™, which is being used in many Grid deployment and application projects around the world.
Globus Toolkit 3.2 and corresponding installation instructions are available from the Globus website.
Globus Toolkit is a trademark held by the University of Chicago.
h30097.www3.hp.com /globus   (459 words)

  
 Equator Website Globus Toolkit (GT3)
The Globus Toolkit (GT3) allows its service-based architecture to handle mobile and handheld devices that are placed in the field.
The EQUATOR e-Science projects bridge the gap between existing grid technologies - such as Globus Toolkit 3 (GT3) - and the mobile and interactive devices, sensors and user interfaces that are typical of EQUATOR's activities.
However current grid technologies - such as Globus Toolkit 3 (GT3) - presume that devices (or services, at least) will (a) have always-on network connections, usually with high bandwidths and (b) have the CPU and memory capacity to run substantial pieces of software to support standard protocols and interactions.
www.equator.ac.uk /index.php/articles/570   (304 words)

  
 Globus Toolkit enables Grid computing
The toolkit, which was awarded an R&D 100 Award from R&D magazine in 2002, is one of the most widely used systems for Grid computing today.
Foster and his MCS colleague Steven Tuecke lead Globus Project activities at Argonne and have spearheaded efforts to engage industry in Globus Toolkit development and applications.
Globus technologies are being applied in a wide range of leading-edge activities, including GriPhyN, a physics network to explore applications requiring quadrillions of operations per second; NEESGrid, a national virtual laboratory for earthquake engineering; and the Cactus astrophysics computing portal.
www.eurekalert.org /features/doe/2003-12/dnl-gte031804.php   (690 words)

  
 Grids and BASF grid
The Globus toolkit allows for the construction of a number of grid nodes and an API capable of authentication and authorisation via proxies, simple submission facilities, and the ability to retrieve data from completed jobs.
These two problems do not mean that the Globus Toolkit is not useful, but emphasise the fact that the Toolkit is only a building block upon which developers use to construct useful applications.
The Globus Toolkit is used as the middleware in the BelleTestBed and is installed on all the nodes.
www.cs.rmit.edu.au /agents/HEPgrid/BASF-Grid.html   (1805 words)

  
 Global Grid Connectivity Using Globus Toolkit With Solaris Operating System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Globus Toolkit 3.0.2 architecture and infrastructure evolved radically from one version to another.
Globus Toolkit version 3.0.2 implements the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) and Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) specifications, leveraging grid computing to a new concept: grid services as a particular type of Web services.
The Globus Toolkit is a grid middleware technology that enables the usage of heterogeneous resources distributed across large geographical areas.
www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=174514   (1454 words)

  
 INSTALLING GLOBUS TOOLKIT 2
The GPT are used to install the rest of the Globus Toolkit.
/globus in the users home directory (default) or in a different directory you then have to specify creating the proxy (see grid-proxy-init —help for alternative certificate directories).
If the Globus Toolkit is installed without root privileges, add the —nonroot[=path] option to the setup-gsi command (see Server installation from the source).
people.man.ac.uk /~zzcgukj/InGlv1.1.htm   (993 words)

  
 National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure: Archives
Globus scientists and corporate representatives made the announcement at the SC 2001 high performance networking and computing convention in Denver, CO.
Grid concepts and the Globus Toolkit have seen widespread adoption over the past two years in the research and education area, with dozens of major projects worldwide applying these concepts and technologies to challenging problems in scientific and technical computing.
A primary product of the Globus Project is the open source Globus Toolkit, which is being used in numerous large Grid deployment and application projects in the United States, Europe, and around the world.
www.npaci.edu /online/v5.24/globus.html   (1030 words)

  
 Robust, Industrial-Strength Toolkit Key to Enterprise Grids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
HP is one of the charter members of the Globus Consortium, a newly-formed industry group dedicated to the promotion of the Globus Toolkit for use in the enterprise.
The Globus Consortium is focused exclusively on the Globus Toolkit, where EGA is about commercial adoption of Grid technology.
We are working and investing in the Globus Consortium, in particular, to bring the level of robustness of the Globus Toolkit to the level where it will meet the needs of the industrial customers.
www.hp.com /techservers/news/news_013105.html   (1088 words)

  
 Globus Toolkit, Version 4.0 (GT4) Released to Open Source Grid Development Community
The Globus Toolkit is an open standards building block for enterprise-level Grid implementations.
GT4 is the most stable, "enterprise ready" version of the Globus Toolkit ever -- incorporating the latest web services standards, new security and authorization features, and the collaborative efforts of a global community of open source Grid developers.
The Globus Toolkit is the de facto standard for Grid infrastructure enabling IT managers to view all of their distributed computing resources around the world as a unified virtual datacenter.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-02-2005/0003536456&EDATE=   (864 words)

  
 GRIDtoday: HP, IBM, INTEL, SUN LAUNCH GLOBUS CONSORTIUM
While the Globus Consortium is not a standards body, it does intend to work in tandem with existing Grid standards bodies -- such as the Global Grid Forum (GGF) -- to further drive implementation of standards that best support enterprise Grid implementations.
The Globus Consortium, with funding and engineering support from its member companies, will focus on providing resources and direction on the technology roadmap for the Globus Toolkit.
The Globus Consortium will be headed by IT industry veteran Greg Nawrocki, who will serve as president and be responsible for day-to-day operations and the promotion of the consortium within the industry.
www.gridtoday.com /05/0131/104532.html   (649 words)

  
 Cover Pages: Globus Toolkit Version 4.0 Features Support for Key Web Services Standards.
The Globus Consortium has announced the release of the Globus Toolkit Version 4.0 (GT4) as a stable, enterprise ready set of services and software libraries incorporating the latest web services standards, with new security and authorization features.
The Globus Consortium is a non-profit organization formed by global computing leaders who support the Globus Toolkit, the de facto standard for open source grid computing infrastructure.
Version 4 of the Globus Toolkit, released today with the sponsorship of the Globus Consortium, is a Web services-oriented platform that signals the readiness of grid computing for mainstream enterprise applications as well as research and supercomputing tasks...
xml.coverpages.org /ni2005-05-03-a.html   (2618 words)

  
 The Globus Consortium Journal - Globus Toolkit Developer's Forum
From the Globus Consortium members (including HP, IBM, Intel, Nortel, Sun and Univa) to Oracle and Microsoft, most major enterprise vendors have contributed value to the evolution of the Globus Toolkit (whether financial or actual code).
As the commercial Grid groundswell continues and vendors continue their support of the Globus Toolkit, it will be interesting to see to what extent Globus Toolkit developers from the public sector cross over into the commercial sector.
Early on, the Globus Toolkit premiered important technologies for security, proving to be a truly pioneering technology.
www.globusconsortium.org /journal/20050502/developersforum.html   (763 words)

  
 Univa Corporation
Globus technology allows IT organizations to transform existing infrastructure into a dynamic Grid, removing the constraints imposed by inflexible computing, storage, and network resources.
With Globus software, you can bring the appropriate resources to bear on a specific challenge, and disperse them just as easily when it's accomplished.
Globus, Globus Toolkit, and Globus Alliance are registered trademarks held by the University of Chicago.
www.univa.com   (186 words)

  
 Grid ASCII Helper Protocol - The GAHP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Although the Globus Toolkit provides a C API and implementation, and CoG kits based upon Globus technology provide bindings in a variety of other languages, there are several distinct advantages to using an independent GAHP server process instead of linking a library into a body of existing code.
Toolkit users that require a non-blocking/asynchronous interface must make use of multiple threads, which is assisted by the fact that the Globus Toolkit is thread-safe.
This may be a significant barrier when trying to integrate Globus Toolkit services into legacy non-thread-safe code, or when attempting to link with commercial libraries which either have no support for threads or define their own threading model.
www.cs.wisc.edu /condor/gahp   (555 words)

  
 The Globus Alliance
Physicists used the Globus Toolkit to harness the power of multiple supercomputers to simulate the gravitational effects of fl hole collisions.
The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the "Grid," which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
A growing number of projects and companies are using the Globus Toolkit to unlock the potential of grids for their cause.
www.globus.org   (211 words)

  
 Globus v2.0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
magazine among the 100 most significant technologies in 2002, the Globus Toolkit is used by many organizations to build computational grids that support their applications.
(See Major Globus Toolkit Contributors.) A growing number of companies have committed to supporting this open source activity by (for example) porting the software to their platforms or by other means.
The Globus Toolkit continues to evolve as a result of user feedback and ongoing research and development.
tyne.dl.ac.uk /StarterKit/gt2/toolkit   (189 words)

  
 National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure: Archives
Globus provides consistent and uniform access to Grid computing in a manner similar to the way a power grid provides electricity.
The Globus Project team will provide regular "maintenance releases" that will contain the latest versions of the Globus Toolkit components at the time of the release.
Work on the Globus Toolkit 2.0 is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA, DARPA, IBM Corporation, and Microsoft Research.
www.npaci.edu /online/v6.8/globus.html   (423 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Globus Globus is a research and development project which is focused on enabling the application of Grid concepts to scientific and engineering computing.
The web pages for Globus, where you can download the Globus Toolkit and related software, and find documentation, are located at www.globus.org.
Compiling Cactus with Globus Cactus can be compiled for running with the Globus toolkit which means that you have access to Globus features like resource management, data management and information services.
www.cactuscode.org /Documentation/HOWTO/Globus-HOWTO   (681 words)

  
 HP, IBM, Intel and Sun Microsystems Launch Globus Consortium
The Globus Toolkit, created by an open source software project in 1996, is a fundamental enabling technology for Grid, allowing organizations to share computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
Founded in 2004 with the support of IT industry leaders IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems, the Globus Consortium draws together the resources of IT industry vendors, enterprise IT groups, and a vital open source developer community to advance use of open source Globus Toolkit software in the enterprise.
The Globus Consortium supports development, documentation, education and quality assurance for the Globus Toolkit that enables leading IT vendors to work together to successfully harness the power of Grid in their enterprise products and services.
www-1.ibm.com /grid/grid_press/pr_0124.shtml   (825 words)

  
 Build Python grid applications with the Globus Toolkit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As with any toolkit, Globus provides only a framework for the development of a grid and it's up to you to use the various components, allowing you to submit jobs, monitor their status, and communicate and transfer work around the network.
You should already know the basics of the grid and the Globus system, and be well versed in the Python language to understand the examples given.
Note that the Globus Toolkit itself requires a number of additional components to run and install properly.
www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/linux/edu/gr-dw-grpyth-i.html?S_TACT=103AMW61&S_CMP=GR&ca=den-lnxw09GlobusKit   (303 words)

  
 Globus: Globus Toolkit Public License
The Globus Project is a collaboration between Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago, and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.
All software developed by the Globus Project is made available under a liberal open source license.
The Globus Toolkit Public License wording is as follows.
esc.dl.ac.uk /StarterKit/gt2/toolkit/download/license.html   (315 words)

  
 Globus Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Recently, the Globus Alliance announced that it had adopted the BSD-style Apache License Version 2.0 for the Globus Toolkit.
The Globus Alliance is an association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures.
A grid is a persistent environment that enables software applications to integrate instruments, displays, computational and information resources that are managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations.
www.wikiverse.org /globus-alliance   (119 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The open source Globus Toolkit is a fundamental enabling technology for the "Grid," letting people share computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
In addition to being a central part of science and engineering projects that total nearly a half-billion dollars internationally, the Globus Toolkit is a substrate on which leading IT companies are building significant commercial Grid products.
The Globus Toolkit was conceived to remove obstacles that prevent seamless collaboration.
collab.nsf-middleware.org /Lists/Products/DispForm.aspx?ID=93   (195 words)

  
 Globus: OGSA - The Open Grid Services Architecture
A two-part introduction on ogsa and developing grid computing applications using the Globus Toolkit can be found on the IBM developerworks website: part i and part ii.
The Globus Toolkit 4.0 and later versions provide an open source WSRF development kit and a set of WSRF services.
The Globus Toolkit 4.0 is an open source, community-driven software project, and it can be downloaded and used under the terms of a liberal open source license.
www.globus.org /ogsa   (470 words)

  
 The Globus Toolkit Ecosystem
The Globus Alliance is working to provide solutions to some of the most persistent and vexing problems that come up in Grid projects and applications.
While the Globus Toolkit can make Grid projects and products significantly easier, the challenges themselves are far from easy and the Globus Toolkit does not provide a turnkey solution.
The Globus Toolkit will be put into context, and examples and roadmaps for the most common uses of the Globus Toolkit will be provided.
people.cs.uchicago.edu /~matei/GlobusEcosystem   (408 words)

  
 Grid software gets business connection | CNET News.com
The Globus Toolkit has used its own standards, but developers are moving to Web services standards so the software will more easily integrate with business computing infrastructure, said Ian Foster, one of the three lead developers behind the toolkit.
Other leaders of the Globus effort, which began in 1995, are Carl Kesselman, professor of computer science at the University of Southern California and director of USC's Center for Grid Technologies, and Steve Tuecke, lead architect of the Argonne Distributed Systems Laboratory.
Globus Toolkit handles connections between different groups of computers, working in conjunction with software such as Platform Computing's Load Sharing Facility or Sun's GridEngine that assigns tasks to computers within a group.
news.com.com /2100-1001-980640.html   (470 words)

  
 Next-Generation Globus Toolkit Released
The Globus Toolkit 3.0 (GT3) implements the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) vision for the convergence of Grid computing and Web services, an effort that began with the open-source Globus Project and IBM and grew into a broader effort of the standards-setting Global Grid Forum.
The open-source Globus Toolkit has become a de facto standard for Grid computing and transformed the way on-line resources are shared across organizations.
The Globus Project said GT3 will benefit from an expanding community of developers who are closely involved in helping to develop Grid standards through the Global Grid Forum (GGF), a community-based organization with public- and private-sector contributors.
www.cioupdate.com /news/article.php/1569181   (1097 words)

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