Globus Toolkit
| Developer(s) | Globus Alliance |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
5.2.5 / 2013
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| Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, HP-UX and AIX. |
| Platform | PC |
| Type | Grid computing |
| License | Apache license |
| Website | www |
The Globus Toolkit is an open source toolkit for grid computing developed and provided by the Globus Alliance.
The Globus Toolkit adheres to or provides implementations of the following standards:
The Globus Toolkit has implementations of the OGF-defined to provide:
The following Globus Toolkit components are supported by the OGF-defined SAGA C++/Python API:
A number of tools can function with Globus Toolkit, including:
XML-based web services offer a way to access the diverse services and applications in a distributed environment.
In 2004, Univa Corporation began providing commercial support for the Globus Toolkit using a business model similar to that of Red Hat.
GRAM (Grid Resource Allocation Manager), a component of the Globus Toolkit, officially supports the following job schedulers or batch-queuing systems:
Unofficial job schedulers that can be used with the Globus Toolkit:
The Globus Alliance announced a release of Globus Toolkit version 5 (GT5) in late 2009.[2][3] A major change will be abandoning GRAM4 (although continuing support at least through December, 2010) in favor of an enhanced GRAM2, called GRAM5, which will solve scalability issues and add features. The Reliable File Transfer (RFT) service will be replaced by a new Globus.org service. Globus.org is an online, hosted service (i.e., Software-as-a-Service) that provides higher-level, end-to-end Grid capabilities, initially concentrating on reliable, high-performance, fire-and-forget data transfer. To retain the Web-Service functionality without technology and standards now considered obsolete, a new project called Globus Crux [4] has been started, which expects to release an alpha version by the end of 2009. The monitoring and discovery tasks currently performed by MDS will be taken up by a new, Crux-based Integrated Information Services (IIS). No releases of the IIS are planned until sometime in 2010.
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