Globus Toolkit 3.0 released

released July 15, 2003

The Globus Toolkit 3.0 (GT3) has been officially released, allowing people to share computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. To download GT3, see http://www.globus.org/toolkit/.

GT3 is the first full-scale implementation of the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) version 1.0, a new specification that the Globus Project played a key role in defining.

OGSI is part of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) developed through the Global Grid Forum (GGF) to define Grid services, which are Web services that conform to a specific set of conventions. OGSI specifies a set of "service primitives" that establish a nucleus of behavior common to all Grid/Web services that can be leveraged by meta- and system-level services. GT3 uses this specification to provide powerful tools for resource monitoring, discovery, management, security and file transfer.

GT3 is fully compliant with OGSI v1.0, which recently completed its public comment period. The v1.0 specification is now an official GGF "Proposed Recommendation," meaning it will not change from this point forward.

 

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