The Globus Toolkit, currently at version 4, is an open source toolkit for building computing grids provided by the Globus Alliance.

Standards implementation

---

The Globus Toolkit is an implementation of the following standards:

• Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
• Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) -- originally intended to form the basic “plumbing” layer for OGSA, but has been superseded by WSRF and WS-Management.
• Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
• Job Submission Description Language (JSDL)
• Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA)
• WS-Management
• WS-BaseNotification
• SOAP
• WSDL

External links

---

• Globus Toolkit homepage

Grid computing