The Globus Alliance is an association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures. A grid is a persistent environment that enables software applications to integrate instruments, displays, computational and information resources that are managed by diverse organizations in widespread locations. Grids are currently in use at many research institutions and are being used to study subjects as diverse as cosmology and high energy physics. In 2004 Univa Corporation began providing commercial support for Globus using a business model similar to that of Red Hat.

Current members of the core Globus Alliance team

• Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago
• EPCC, University of Edinburgh
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
• Northern Illinois University, High Performance Computing Laboratory
• Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Univa Corporation
• University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute

See also

• Object Management Group

External links

• The Globus Alliance
• Global Grid Forum
• The Globus Consortium
• Univa Corporation

Distributed computing | Grid computing

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