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Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit (1996)
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| Venue: | International Journal of Supercomputer Applications |
| Citations: | 1928 - 51 self |
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@ARTICLE{Foster96globus:a,
author = {Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman},
title = {Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit},
journal = {International Journal of Supercomputer Applications},
year = {1996},
volume = {11},
pages = {115--128}
}
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Abstract
Emerging high-performance applications require the ability to exploit diverse, geographically distributed resources. These applications use high-speed networks to integrate supercomputers, large databases, archival storage devices, advanced visualization devices, and/or scientific instruments to form networked virtual supercomputers or metacomputers. While the physical infrastructure to build such systems is becoming widespread, the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the metacomputing environment poses new challenges for developers of system software, parallel tools, and applications. In this article, we introduce Globus, a system that we are developing to address these challenges. The Globus system is intended to achieve a vertically integrated treatment of application, middleware, and network. A low-level toolkit provides basic mechanisms such as communication, authentication, network information, and data access. These mechanisms are used to construct various higher-level metacomp...
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metacomputing infrastructure toolkit physical infrastructure various higher-level metacomp basic mechanism system software high-speed network scientific instrument network information integrated treatment large database data access globus system parallel tool metacomputing environment networked virtual supercomputer new challenge archival storage device distributed resource high-performance application advanced visualization device low-level toolkit dynamic nature
