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Link Collection of Grid Components and Technologies
General Grid Definition
This list is a collection of "grid" technologies - One can argue exactly what constitutes a grid, but in the most general terms grids have components with persistent state that facilitate the building of service oriented architectures around virtual organisations. The links on this page attempt to collect together the major efforts that are current in this area.
Standards Bodies
One of the problems in tracking grid technology is that the relevant standards are scattered amongst the following bodies
| Name | Description |
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| GGF | The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is the body responsible for coordinating the grid standards at the highest level |
| OASIS | Owns mainy of the "WS" standards - These are standards that produce protocols based on SOAP, and cover a wide range of ares from security to resource naming. |
| W3C | Owns the standards of the protocols that are layered on top of the actual transport protocols, most notably SOAP and WSDL. It also has ownership of most of the basic XML standards on which SOAP is based. |
| IETF | Owns the standards of the transport layer protocols. |
| WS-I | aims to produce guidelines for web services interoperability. |
Standards
Toolkits
| Name | Description |
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| Globus | The Globus alliance produces the best known toolkit - The latest stable version is known as [http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/3.2/][GT3]], although this is undergoing a major revision to [http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/development/][GT4]] in an attempt to unify early Open Grid services Infrastructure (OGSI) and the newer Web services Resource framework (WS-RF) |
| Condor | Condor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management on clusters of compute nodes. |
| Glite | Lightweight Middleware for grid computing An attempt to design a grid infrastructure based on web services, rather than the Globus approach. |
| MyGrid | The myGrid project aims to exploit the growing interest in Grid technology, with an emphasis on the Information Grid, and provide middleware layers that make it appropriate for the immediate needs of bioinformatics. |
| GridLab | GridLab is funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. GridLab will produce a set of application-oriented Grid services and toolkits providing capabilities such as dynamic resource brokering, monitoring, data management, security, information, adaptive services and more. |
Software Packages
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| GridAssist | A full-fledged standalone package that contains a client and server to run workflows and schedule tasks on Globus environment. |
Domain Specific Implementations
Astronomy
In Europe the grid effort is coordinated via the Euro VO (formally AVO) and internationally by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). The main bodies of grid-based software have been contributed by
Particle Physics
Space Science
Fusion
Molecular Biology
Grid Coordinating bodies
- OMII Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute. Trying to gather together an easy to install collection of open source grid software. Also funds further development where it feels that there is a gap in functionality.
- EGEE Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project is funded by the European Commission and aims to build on recent advances in grid technology and develop a service grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day.
Security
Collaboration
- AccessGrid is a grid based video conferencing system. It requires a dedicated facility to be set up, and within Europe the majority of such sites are within the UK.
General Grid Dissemination, link collections
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