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March 12, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Six New Globus Incubator Projects

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There has been a host of good news from the various Globus teams, and the following is the icing on the cake. While the addition of new incubator projects is noteworthy, having the GridWay project "graduate" from incubator to full Globus project is indeed significant news.

This shows that the incubator process is working and projects brought in on a probationary basis indeed have the ability to become part of the toolkit in its distributed form. Given that similar processes are used in the enterprise space this is an indicator that dev.globus considers itself a contender in more than the research and academic spaces of which it is commonly associated.

From the press release:

Globus is pleased to announce that the GridWay Metascheduler project has completed incubation and is now a full Globus project. One of the initial start-up projects, GridWay has shown that they are an open, meritocratic, and healthy project, and has shown it understands the Globus Way. This is the first project to complete incubation.

GridWay gives end users, application developers, and managers of Globus infrastructures a scheduling functionality similar to that found on local resource management systems. It uses GRAM for local job submission, MDS to discover resources, and GridFTP and RFT for job staging. Functionality includes advanced scheduling capabilities, detection and recovery from remote and local failure situations , the ability to submit, monitor, synchronize and control single, array, and interdependent jobs, the capability to monitor Globus resources and users, and functionality to extract Grid accounting information. Gridway has full support for the C and JAVA DRMAA GGF standard for the development of distributed applications on Globus services.

In additional, six new projects have joined the dev.globus incubation process, bringing the total number of projects to twenty-two. With support from the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) and other sources, the Globus Alliance launched in early 2006 a new open development process called dev.globus. Having seeded dev.globus with existing Globus components, the Globus community established the Incubation Management Project (IMP) in March 2006 to manage the incubation process by which further dev.globus projects are established.

Posted by Greg Nawrocki on March 12, 2007 09:23 AM

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