What is the difference with a grid computing project like the Globus Toolkit?
The Globus Toolkit gives clean standards for building a grid. Using known technologies (Tomcat web servers, SOAP, RSA, XML, WSDL) and extensions of known technologies (GridFTP), it tries to define an inhomogeneous infrastructure for computing grids. In some configurations, computations are performed only after authenticating users. In Globus, computations are offered as a “grid service” to clients, like a webserver offering pages to browsers. Globus does not define a scheduler, a scheduler should be implemented as a “grid service”, too. The idea is very elegant for the centralized model, but there might be some problems in a P2P environment. Version 2.0 was difficult to install and get running. We know some people who spent a semester term project to get it running. Version 3.0 is much easier to install and is in sinergy with IBM Eclipse. Another interesting Open Source Grid project is MyGrid. GPU has quite a different philosophy: its main focus is on a P2P scheduler for randomized alg
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