What is Globus?
The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the Grid, which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. Learn more… The Globus Toolkit is an open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications. It is being developed by the Globus Alliance and many others all over the world. A growing number of projects and companies are using the Globus Toolkit to unlock the potential of grids for their cause. Learn more… • e-Science and e-Business teams around the world are using the Globus Toolkit to construct Grid infrastructure and to develop Grid applications. • Globus Alliance research targets technical challenges that arise from these activities. Typical research areas include resource management, data management and access, application development environments
