1.2. Globus Project

The Globus Project is a joint effort on the part of researchers and developers from around the world that are focused on the concept of grid computing. It is organized around four main activities:

  • Research

  • Software Tools

  • Testbeds

  • Applications

You can get more information about the Globus Project and their activities at:

http://www.globus.org

For this publication, we present most of our information in the context of the Globus Toolkit. The Globus Toolkit provides software tools to make it easier to build computational grids and grid-based applications. The Globus Toolkit is both an open architecture and open source toolkit.

At the time of this writing, the current version of the Globus Toolkit is Version 2.2. Version 3 of the ...

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