9.1. Lottery simulation program

The first application simply utilizes the GSI-OpenSSH module. Many people will not consider it a true grid application, as it does not use most of the facilities provided by the Globus Toolkit, and their is little ability to manage the application and control its environment. However, it is an example of the power of using the GSI and GSI-OpenSSH packages to allow multiple systems to work together to provide a solution.

After presenting the GSI-OpenSSH version of the program we then provide a true grid-enabled version that does utilize the Globus Toolkit facilities.

9.1.1. Simulate a lottery using gsissh in a shell script

GSI-OpenSSH is a modified version of the OpenSSH client and server that adds support for ...

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