ZDNet UK: Grid Software Gets Business Connection

“Programmers writing the software underpinnings for ‘grid’
supercomputing software have begun an overhaul to make the software
more business-friendly.

“Developers of the Globus Toolkit program–open-source software
used to link groups of servers and storage systems into a single
pool of computing power–have released an alpha version of their
software that incorporates Web services technology, the group said
Monday. Web services are a host of technologies sweeping the
computing industry, standardising next-generation Internet
processes such as advertising what capabilities a computer has or
governing who has permission to use a certain computers on the
network.

“The Globus Toolkit has used its own standards, but developers
are moving to Web services standards so the software will more
easily integrate with business computing infrastructure, said Ian
Foster, one of the three lead developers behind the toolkit…”

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