Ian Foster

TL;DR: The Globus Toolkit as discussed by the authors is a toolkit for high-throughput resource management for distributed supercomputing applications, focusing on real-time wide-distributed instrumentation systems.

TL;DR: The authors present an extensible and open Grid architecture, in which protocols, services, application programming interfaces, and software development kits are categorized according to their roles in enabling resource sharing.

TL;DR: This article reviews the "Grid problem," and presents an extensible and open Grid architecture, in which protocols, services, application programming interfaces, and software development kits are categorized according to their roles in enabling resource sharing.

TL;DR: This presentation complements an earlier foundational article, “The Anatomy of the Grid,” by describing how Grid mechanisms can implement a service-oriented architecture, explaining how Grid functionality can be incorporated into a Web services framework, and illustrating how the architecture can be applied within commercial computing as a basis for distributed system integration.

TL;DR: The Globus system is intended to achieve a vertically integrated treatment of application, middleware, and net work, an integrated set of higher level services that enable applications to adapt to heteroge neous and dynamically changing metacomputing environ ments.