What is The Globus Toolkit Architecture

The Globus Toolkit is an open middleware library for the grid computing communities. These open source software libraries support many operational grids and their applications on an international basis. The toolkit addresses common problems and issues related to grid resource discovery, management, communication, security, fault detection, and portability. The software itself provides a variety of components and capabilities. The library includes a rich set of service implementations. The implemented software supports grid infrastructure management, provides tools for building new web services in Java, C, and Python, builds a powerful standard-based.

Security infrastructure and client APIs (in different languages), and offers comprehensive command-line programs for accessing various grid services. The Globus Toolkit was initially motivated by a desire to remove obstacles that prevent seamless collaboration, and thus sharing of resources and services, in scientific and engineering applications. The shared resources can be computers, storage, data, services, networks, science instruments (e.g., sensors), and so on.