Globus Toolkit

The Globus Toolkit, is an open source toolkit for grid computing developed and provided by the Globus Alliance.

Standards implementation

The Globus Toolkit is an implementation of the following standards:

  • Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
  • Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI), originally intended to form the basic “plumbing” layer for OGSA, but has been superseded by WSRF and WS-Management.
  • Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
  • Job Submission Description Language (JSDL)
  • Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA)
  • WS-Management
  • WS-BaseNotification
  • SOAP
  • Web Services Description Language
  • Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
  • The Globus Toolkit has implementations of the OGF-defined protocols to provide:

  • Resource management: Grid Resource Allocation & Management Protocol (GRAM)
  • Information Services: Monitoring and Discovery Service (MDS)
  • Security Services: Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
  • Data Movement and Management: Global Access to Secondary Storage (GASS) and GridFTP
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