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The Globus Project: A Status Report
White Papers The Globus project is a multi-institutional research effort that seeks to enable the construction of computational grids providing pervasive, dependable, and consistent access to high-performance computational resources, despite geographical...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Grid Software Project Widens Scope
News Formerly called the Globus Project, it will now be known as the Globus Alliance, the group said on Tuesday. The Globus Toolkit, an open-source software project, has the potential to bring these separate utility computing efforts closer together...
[September 3, 2003, 9:59]
Protocols And Services For Distributed Data-Intensive Science
White Papers We describe work being performed in the Globus project to develop enabling protocols and services for distributed data-intensive science. These components leverage the substantial body of "Grid" services and protocols developed within the Globus...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
New Boost For Open-source Supercomputing
News Platform is working with the Globus Project to commercialise the Globus Toolkit for governing the use of computers and storage systems joined into a large computing "grid," Platform said Wednesday. IBM is working with Globus to boost this expansion.
[November 12, 2001, 14:41]
Sun’s Grid Computing Solutions Outdistance The Competition
White Papers While Sun is ahead of its competition, building its own grid products, it is incorporating concepts developed by the leading research organizations (of which Sun is a primary participant) in grid computing - the open source Globus project (www...
[May 13, 2004, 8:10]
Weaving Grid Computing Into Web Services
News IBM has joined the Globus Project, an effort to write open-source grid-management software. Initial proposed technical specifications have been developed by the Globus Project and IBM, and are being put forward at the Global Grid Forum for...
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
Grid Computing Luring Mainstream Backers
News Microsoft has dipped its toes into the grid world before, but the software giant decided to back one of the key grid organisations, the Globus Project, whose Globus Toolkit software lets organisations set up grids and manage grid jobs.
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
Grid Computing Founders Form Start-up
News Univa's top brass -- chief executive Steve Tuecke, chief scientist Carl Kesselman and chief open-source strategist Ian Foster -- run the Globus project and jointly wrote a seminal 2001 paper, The Anatomy of the Grid.
[December 13, 2004, 8:00]
NUSGRID - A Prototype For Grid Computing
White Papers Grids have been popularized through the successful implementation of the Globus Toolkit by Ian Foster, a Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, and his collaborators. The NUS campus grid project, codenamed NUSGRID, aims to develop...
[November 17, 2004, 2:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A couple of months ago, I wrote about the open source Globus Project, which is a collaboration between academia, R&D companies and big commercial outfits like IBM. The Butterfly Net gets going today: it uses the Globus system to provide a robust...
[May 29, 2002, 15:54]
Grid Computing Hooks Up To Open Standards
News Cue the Globus Project. For further reading, the Globus Project's Web site is an excellent starting point, and the Global Grid Forum covers much of the bigger picture. A hefty consortium of American academics, government agencies and IBM, Microsoft...
[March 19, 2002, 16:18]
US To Build Supercomputer Grid
News A national board will decide how the computing power is allocated, but using it should be made simpler through the choice of open-source grid software from an organisation called the Globus Project, he said.
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
Sun Offers Business-friendly Grid Software
News IBM has partnerships with the Globus Project for developing grid standards as well as Avaki, Platform Computing, but the work "is not on the scale of Sun", she said. Sun provides the software for Solaris and Linux, but because the project is open...
[June 6, 2002, 9:54]
IBM Plans Open-source Storage Strategy
News The company also backs the Linux operating system, the Globus Toolkit for supercomputing networks, and several other projects of the collaborative programming movement. Big Blue is working with an undisclosed open-source group on the software and...
[December 23, 2002, 7:56]
German Government Heads For Grid
News The Global Grid Forum's Globus toolkit, which is open-source software, is used to coordinate the processing power of a disparate network of computers and parcel out tasks across several machines. The German government's project is one of several...
[March 10, 2004, 13:35]
Japan Plans Super Grid Computer
News Along with Naregi, their main tool is Globus, open-source software used to link groups of servers and storage systems into a single pool of computing power. The government has seeded the project with $17m (£10.44m) in funding.
[July 11, 2003, 8:57]
IBM Case Study: Ngee Ann Polytechnic
White Papers The solution, designed by IBM Global Services, Integrated Technology Services included Linux operating system, Globus Toolkit, Platform LSF and installation services performed by IBM independent software vendor Avaki.
[November 10, 2004, 23:00]
Grid Software Gets Business Connection
News Developers of the Globus Toolkit program -- open-source software used to link groups of servers and storage systems into a single pool of computing power -- have released an alpha version of their software that incorporates Web services technology...
[January 15, 2003, 8:18]
TeraGrid Supercomputing Project Expands
News One key part of grid work is an open-source project called the Globus Toolkit, which helps with tasks such as discovering what processing resources are available on a grid and deciding what jobs have permission to use them.
[November 26, 2002, 8:44]
Grids Set For Enterprise Push
News Using the software, corporate customers will be able to make better use of their existing computing resources, according to Globus Alliance executives. The Globus Toolkit 4, for example, is designed to make it easier to build an application that...
[April 28, 2005, 18:20]
