Globus Toolkit - Standards Implementation

Standards Implementation

The Globus Toolkit is an implementation of the following standards:

  • Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
  • Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) -- originally intended to form the basic “plumbing” layer for OGSA, but has been superseded by WSRF and WS-Management.
  • Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
  • Job Submission Description Language (JSDL)
  • Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA)
  • WS-Management
  • WS-BaseNotification
  • SOAP
  • WSDL
  • Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
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The Globus Toolkit has implementations of the OGF-defined protocols to provide:

  1. Resource management: Grid Resource Allocation & Management Protocol (GRAM)
  2. Information Services: Monitoring and Discovery Service (MDS)
  3. Security Services: Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
  4. Data Movement and Management: Global Access to Secondary Storage (GASS) and GridFTP

The following Globus Toolkit components are supported by the OGF-defined SAGA C++/Python API:

  1. GRAM (2 and 5) via the SAGA job API
  2. GridFTP via the SAGA filesystem API
  3. Replica Location Service via the SAGA replica API

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