10.1. Overview of changes from GT2 to GT3
GT3 is based on OGSI to support the industry standardization of grid protocols. It contains services and features available in GT2, but also allows users to create new services. Some existing features that will be provided include GSI, GRAM, GridFTP, and Information Services. The major difference in the functionality between the two toolkits is that the interface to these features has become an OGSI service. In Globus Toolkit V2, all services were independent of each other; however, in Globus Toolkit V3 all services can be accessed with common interfaces, making it much simpler to develop applications that access these components. Globus Toolkit V3 will also have a more consistent way to obtain information ...
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