Grid Computing P30

Computational Grid technologies hold the promise of providing global scale distributed computing for scientific applications. The goal of projects such as Globus [1], Legion [2], Condor [3], and others is to provide some portion of the infrastructure needed to support ubiquitous, geographically distributed computing [4, 5]. These metacomputing tools provide such services as high-throughput computing, single login to resources distributed across multiple organizations, and common Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and protocols for information, job submission, and security services across multiple organizations. ...