Globus Toolkit - Standards Implementation

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Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) -- originally intended to form the basic “plumbing” layer for OGSA, but has been superseded by WSRF and WS-Management.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
• Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)

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The Globus Toolkit has implementations of the OGF-defined protocols to provide:

1. Resource management: Grid Resource Allocation & Management Protocol (GRAM)
2. Information Services: Monitoring and Discovery Service (MDS)
3. Security Services: Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
4. Data Movement and Management: Global Access to Secondary Storage (GASS) and GridFTP

The following Globus Toolkit components are supported by the OGF-defined SAGA C++/Python API:

1. GRAM (2 and 5) via the SAGA job API
2. GridFTP via the SAGA filesystem API
3. Replica Location Service via the SAGA replica API