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Index Grid Services Using Globus Toolkit 3.0
White Papers The Index Service of Globus Toolkit 3.0 is a helpful component for building grid applications. It can be used to index Service Data carrying state information from multiple grid service instances for use in resource discovery, selection and...
[November 25, 2004, 23:00]
Writing Secure Grid Services Using Globus Toolkit 3.0
White Papers This paper explains the security terminology and mechanisms available with the Globus Toolkit 3.0. Example code shows how to implement message level security in grid services using the Globus Toolkit 3.0.
[November 25, 2004, 23:00]
Global Grid Connectivity Using Globus Toolkit With Solaris Operating System
White Papers This article describes how to integrate grid computing with Globus Toolkit software for a site using Sun N1 Grid Engine software (formerly Sun Grid Engine) as a local resource manager. This article provides background information and step-by-step...
[June 23, 2004, 0:00]
Querying The Grid With The Globus Toolkit Monitoring And Discovery Service
White Papers The information services component of the Globus Toolkit, the Monitoring and Discovery Service (MDS), gathers information about Grid resources by means of the Grid Resource Information Service (GRIS) and the Grid Index Information Service (GIIS).
[November 25, 2004, 23:00]
Using Java Technology With Globus Grid Security Infrastructure
White Papers Manipulating grid certificates using the Globus Toolkit 3.0 (GT3) in Windows environments is an awkward situation. It usually requires that system administrators or users install GT3 on Linux systems in order to use the command line scripts to...
[November 25, 2004, 23:00]
IPv6-Enabled Globus Toolkit
White Papers During the last few years, Grid systems [GridS] have emerged to perform large-scale computation and data storage over IP-enabled data communication networks. They use distributed, potentially remote, resources to optimise computation and storage...
[March 14, 2005, 23:00]
Set Up A Grid Job Scheduler With The Globus Toolkit 3.2.x
White Papers The open standards nature of OGSA, plus the advanced scheduling capabilities of a batch system, together creates groundbreaking new ways to build computing clusters for future grid systems. If the application you're building requires significant...
[November 22, 2004, 23:00]
Grid Software Project Widens Scope
News Globus, a group that creates grid software to link multiple computers and storage systems, has changed its official name and governing board to reflect an international expansion it hopes will bring it new expertise.
[September 3, 2003, 9:59]
Extensible Job Managers For Grid Computing
White Papers The Globus Grid Toolkit is a set of low-level tools, protocols and services that has become a defacto standard for basic grid computing infrastructure. The Globus Resource Allocation and Management (GRAM) service provides for the management and...
[November 30, 2004, 23:00]
Grid Computing: What Are The Key Components?
White Papers One of the most used toolkits for creating and managing a grid environment is the Globus Toolkit. This paper gives you an overview of the key components that make up a Grid environment with focus on the Globus Toolkit.
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
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]
IBM Bypasses Microsoft Web Services Spec
News The authors of WS-Notification include Akamai Technologies, grids standards body the Globus Alliance, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SAP, Sonic Software and Tibco Software. IBM, HP and the Globus Alliance collaborated around the WS-Resource Framework, which...
[January 21, 2004, 11:05]
Grids Set For Enterprise Push
News The challenge is getting the ideas out of the lab and into commercial use," said Steve Tuecke, CEO of Univa, which Tuecke founded with a group of grid computing luminaries in December last year to build commercial systems around the Globus Toolkit.
[April 28, 2005, 18:20]
Grid Computing Hooks Up To Open Standards
News Cue the Globus Project. A hefty consortium of American academics, government agencies and IBM, Microsoft and Cisco, based in the US Argonne National Laboratory, Globus has been going for nearly six years developing the protocols, software and...
[March 19, 2002, 16:18]
Weaving Grid Computing Into Web Services
News IBM has joined the Globus Project, an effort to write open-source grid-management software. Globus was spawned by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Southern California, the University of Chicago and elsewhere.
[February 18, 2002, 12:21]
Grid Computing Luring Mainstream Backers
News Version 3.0 of the Globus Toolkit will support OGSA, Globus has said, and IBM said WebSphere will provide a foundation for running programs using the OGSA standard, IBM said. Microsoft has dipped its toes into the grid world before, but the...
[February 21, 2002, 14:36]
IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: GT3 And WebSphere Compatibility
White Papers Security is at the core of the Globus Toolkit. Grid security infrastructure (GSI) enables secure authentication and communication over computer networks. It provides services such as mutual authentication and single sign-on, and is based on proven...
[November 25, 2004, 23:00]
Grids Go Corporate
News In the latest effort to put corporate teeth into the amorphous idea of grid computing, IBM, HP and Intel are banding together into a new group called the Globus Consortium. The consortium will try to steer an open source software package called the...
[January 24, 2005, 8:10]
Grid Computing Founders Form Start-up
News So far, though, Globus hasn't reached far beyond research labs and universities. The company, called Univa and based near Chicago, is building its business on the Globus Toolkit, grid software that serves as an important foundation to dozens of...
[December 13, 2004, 8:00]
ITRC Is Just The Ticket For Avro's Mission Critical Needs
White Papers Part of the Globus travel group, Avro was the first UK company dedicated to offering (flight) seat only charter bookings including holiday insurance, car hire and airport parking. Previously running on Sequoia systems, Avro found that it was not...
[July 24, 2006, 0:00]
