Once Ive installed the Globus Toolkit, how do others find out that my machine is available on the Grid, and how can I find out what other machines are on the Grid?
This question indicates that you are under the impression that there is a single well-connected Grid, in the same sense that there is a single well-connected Internet. Today, the Grid exists as a number of groups who are building experimental and production grid infrastructures for their own purposes. These groups are called “virtual organizations” because they are groups of organizations that are using the Grid to share resources for specific purposes. Examples of these virtual organizations (or “VOs”) are the EU DataGrid, the NASA Information Power Grid, the NSF Alliance and NPACI Technology Grids, the International Virtual Data Grid (iVDGL), the NSF TeraGrid, and the Asia-Pacific Grid (apGrid). These virtual organizations are all using the same Grid technology to build their infrastructures, so they could–in theory–all interoperate as “the Grid” the same way that all of the web and email servers interoperate as “the Internet”. Each VO has its own directory service which participat
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- Once Ive installed the Globus Toolkit, how do others find out that my machine is available on the Grid, and how can I find out what other machines are on the Grid?
- Once weve installed the Globus Toolkits Grid Services, can anyone who has Grid clients on their machines use our machines without our knowledge?
- Can we use any machine which has the Globus Toolkits Grid Services installed on it?
