CROSSGRID – TOOLS AND SERVICES FOR INTERACTIVE GRID APPLICATIONS

Abstract

The CrossGrid Project aims to develop new Grid services and a tool environment for a representative set of interactive compute- and data-intensive applications. This paper presents the architecture of the software and a description of the functionality of the main components. The new tools and grid services are based on the Globus Toolkit and the EU DataGrid middleware. CrossGrid develops and operates a large international testbed, where the developed applications, services and tools are deployed and run.

Keywords

• Grid
• architecture
• services
• interactive applications
• Globus Toolkit
• OGSA