4.3. Some data grid projects in the Globus community
Many data-centric grid projects in the research community are based on the Globus Toolkit 2. They have developed various middleware to help handle the data management considerations. Here is a short list of large data grid projects whose middleware source codes are available.
4.3.1. EU DataGrid
The DataGrid project is a project funded by the European Union that aims to enable access to geographically distributed data servers. It is based on the Globus Toolkit 2.2 and therefore uses the Globus Data Grid framework: GridFTP protocol and replica management.
This project implements a middleware layer between applications and the Globus Toolkit 2.
The Grid Data Mirroring Package (GDMP) is a file ...
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