- Globus Alliance
The Globus Alliance is an international association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build
grid computing infrastructures. The Globus Alliance was officially established in September 2003, however it was created out of the previous Globus Project that had been established in 1995. [cite pressrelease|publisher=Globus Alliance|title=Globus Alliance established as international consortium to advance Globus grid software|url=http://www.globus.org/alliance/news/prGAannounce.html|date=September 2 ,2003 |quote=the Globus Project today transformed itself into the “Globus Alliance.” ... The Globus Project was established in 1995 by the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the University of Chicago (UofC).|accessdate=2007-08-08]A grid is a persistent environment that enables
software application s to integrate instruments, displays, computational, and information resources that are managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations. Grids are currently in use at many research institutions and are being used to study subjects such as cosmology andhigh energy physics .Ian Foster (Univ of Chicago/Argonne),Carl Kesselman (Univ of Southern California),Gabriele Garzoglio (Fermilab) are the pioneers of globus and the people behind funding the project. Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman are considered fathers of Grid computing. Gabriele Garzoglio has contributed hundered of research articles on Grid Computing and SAM Grid.Globus Toolkit
The Globus Alliance implements some of the standards developed at the Open Grid Forum (OGF) through the open source
Globus Toolkit . As a gridmiddleware component, it provides a standard platform for services to build upon, but grid computing also needs other components, and many other tools operate to support a successful Grid environment.Current members of the core Globus Alliance team
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Argonne National Laboratory ,University of Chicago
* EPCC,University of Edinburgh
*National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
*Northern Illinois University , High Performance Computing Laboratory
*Royal Institute of Technology ,Sweden
*Univa Corporation
*University of Southern California ,Information Sciences Institute ee also
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Object Management Group
*Open Grid Forum References
External links
* [http://www.globus.org/ The Globus Alliance]
* [http://www.gridforum.org/ Open Grid Forum]
* [http://www.globusconsortium.org/ The Globus Consortium]
* [http://www.univa.com Univa Corporation]
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