Grid Computing Planet: Next-Generation Globus Toolkit To Debut In January

“The next-generation Globus Toolkit that will combine Grid
technology with Web services will be available as an alpha release
in January, Globus project co-leaders Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman
said at the Supercomputing 2002 conference in Baltimore this
week.

“Globus Toolkit 3 (GT3) will implement the Open Grid Services
Architecture vision for the convergence of Grid computing and Web
services, an effort that began with the open-source Globus Project
and IBM and grew into a broader effort of the standards-setting
Global Grid Forum. GT3 will be available as a public beta release
next June, Foster and Kesselman said.

“GT3 will build on the core Globus Toolkit, the de facto Grid
computing standard, and will add features such as resource
management, registry, data services, and the ability to submit and
keep track of jobs, said Kesselman of USC’s Information Sciences
Institute…”

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