@article{6123809e74d840d8bcf44d0424fbfbe6,
title = "The alliance grid",
abstract = "The advent of high-performance networks available to research institutions has made it possible to transform the way in which computational researchers do work. The goal is to create an environment and supporting infrastructure that allows research and production work on the Grid, as some have named it (Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, editors. The grid: Blueprint for a new computing infrastructure. Los Altos: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999), to be done as easily as working on your desktop. Through the Grid, researchers will have access to resources wherever they are located on the network - resources such as high-performance computers, data archives, scientific instruments, tele-immersive environments, and other limited access assets such as telescopes. The National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) has the deployment of such a Grid as one of its main missions.",
keywords = "Access grid, Alliance grid, Globus, High-performance computing, High-performance networks",
author = "Ferguson, {James W.} and John Towns",
note = "Funding Information: Clearly, making the Grid work requires many interlocking pieces, or {\textquoteleft}services{\textquoteright}, to be available. Security, global resource scheduling, data migration, accounting, and collaboration on results are just a few of the services that will be required of a fully functioning Grid. One project that is developing basic software infrastructure (middleware) for computations that integrate geographically distributed computational and information resources is the Globus project [1] . Globus is a joint project of Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute with significant contributions also being made by other partners. Some Globus services now available are being deployed and tested within both of the NSF's Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program's funded partnerships. At the same time, this middleware, referred to as the Globus Toolkit, or more commonly, simply as Globus, is being applied to support access to additional types of resources. Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2001",
month = may,
doi = "10.1016/S0965-9978(01)00006-0",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "32",
pages = "417--422",
journal = "Advances in Engineering Software",
issn = "0965-9978",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "5",
}