The Globus Project
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Welcome to the home page for the Globus project.

The Globus project is developing basic software infrastructure for computations that integrate geographically distributed computational and information resources.

Globus concepts are being tested on a global scale by participants in the Globus Ubiquitous Supercomputing Testbed Organization (GUSTO).  GUSTO currently spans over forty institutions and includes some of the largest computers in the world.

Globus is a joint project of Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. Led by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, it is the work of a talented project team at Argonne, USC/ISI, and the Aerospace Corporation, with significant contributions also being made by other partners.

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What's New?
  • Globus used in live runs at world's brightest X-Ray source (6/99)
  • The 3rd Annual Globus Retreat will be held August 1-3, 1999 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Redondo Beach, CA
  • Globus-based aerosciences application featured in NAS News as early Information Power Grid Success story
    for Globus-based aerosciences application and for Information Power Grid (03/99)
  • Globus Year 2000 Statement (3/29/99)
  • Globus featured in NLANR Distributed Computing Tutorial, April 26-27 in Washington, D.C. (3/24/99)
  • Globus teams up with leading hair stylist (2/26/99)
  • Nimrod-G parameter study tool in the news (2/16/99)

1998:

  • New papers describes Globus GASS service and Globus QoS Architecture (11/23)
  • Globus user Ed Seidel wins Heinz-Billing award (11/20)
  • Globus team wins HPC Challenge Award at SC'98; 3 other Globus-based applications finalists (11/12)
  • Globus used to achieve real-time, collaborative analysis of Advanced Photon Source data (11/9)
  • Globus v1.0.0 released (10/29)
  • Globus at SC'98 (Orlando, 10/9-13): Globus featured in a tutorial, innovative application demonstrations, technical papers, HPC Challenge entries.
  • Globus used in iGrid international networking experiments (10/98)
  • Globus featured in NPACI's enVision magazine (9/98)
  • Now available: The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, edited by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman (7/18/98)
  • MPICH Released on 7/13/98 with the Globus Device
  • Dr. Kesselman spotted in a tuxedo (6/18/98)

See also the archive of previous "what's new" items.

The Globus Logo can be downloaded in the globus_images web.
Globus is being used for many applications, including remote visualization of black hole simulations (left) and collaborative environments (right).
Image two black holes colliding. Image from NICE collaborative environment

 


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