Some good news from dev.globus--a first incubator project, the GridWay Metascheduler project, has completed incubation and is now a full Globus project. In addition, six new projects have joined the dev.globus incubation process, bringing the total number of projects to twenty-two.
A more detailed description from an announcement prepared by Jennifer Schopf, dev.globus Incubator Management Project (IMP) chair:
GridWay
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.
New Projects
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.
- DDM - contact Steve Tuecke, Univa The Distributed Data Management (DDM) project provides an efficient data distribution service that can be used to track, transport and synchronize large-scale, distributed data sets.
- Gavia Meta Scheduler – contact Andre Charbonneau, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) A Condor-based metascheduler using the Globus Toolkit 4 as the Grid middleware.
- Gavia Job Submission Client – contact Andre Charbonneau, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) A generic graphical user interface for job submission, monitoring and management that is tailored to work with a Globus 4 Grid running the Gavia Metascheduler.
- OGRO – contact Jesus Luna, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya The Open GRid OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) client uses CertiVeR for proxy certificate’s OCSP path validation and to request authorization information in OCSP extensions from such service.
- SJTU GridFTP GUI Client (SGGC) - contact Linpeng Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University The SJTU GridFTP GUI Client (SGGC) is an interactive GUI client for GridFTP.
- Workflow Enactment Engine Project (WEEP) – contact Ivan Janciak, University of Vienna The Workflow Enactment Engine Project (WEEP) is developing a workflow enactment engine able to fulfil requirements of highly dynamic and interactive workflows that can be fully controlled by a user.
The IMP invites other interested projects to contact us about becoming incubator projects. See the current process guidelines for more details.
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