Major Grid Toolkits in Use Now
Globus
- Globus provides tools for
- Security/Authentication
- Grid Security Infrastructure, …
- Information Infrastructure:
- Directory Services, Resource Allocation Services, …
- Data Management:
- GridFTP, Replica Catalogs, …
- Communication
- and more...
- Basic Grid Infrastructure for most Grid Projects
Condor(-G)
- “cycle stealing”
- ClassAds
- Arbitrary resource matchmaking
- Queue management facilities
- Heterogeneous queues through Condor-G: Essentially creates a temporary Condor installation on remote machine and cleans up after itself.