KwGrid:Links

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Communities

• Globus Documentation Project (Web Links, Wiki, FAQs, Downloads)
• The Globus Alliance
• GRIDtoday
• The Globus Consortium
• Global Grid Forum (GGF)
• Enterprise Grid Alliance
• IBM developerWorks: Grid computing
• Oracle Grid Computing
• Access Grid
• GridCafé (non-experts)

Books

• The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman)
• Grid Computing: Making The Global Infrastructure a Reality (Fran Berman, Geoffrey Fox, Anthony J.G. Hey)
• Grid Computing: A Practical Guide to Technology and Applications (Programming Series) (Ahmar Abbas)
• Grid Computing (On Demand Series) (Joshy Joseph, Craig Fellenstein)
• IBM Redbooks:
  • Enabling Applications for Grid Computing with Globus (PDF)
  • Introduction to Grid Computing with Globus (PDF)
  • Globus Toolkit 3.0 Quick Start (PDF, Additional Material)

Notes

Installation

• Globus Documentation Project - Wiki - Installation
• Globus Toolkit 3.2: Installation Guide
• Globus Toolkit 3.0 Quick Start (PDF, Additional Material)
• GT3 Microsoft Windows Install and Setup Guides (Michael Schneider)
• WSRF Grid Services & GT4 installation (Scott Gose)
• Step-By-Step Example for the Globus Toolkit 3.0 Alpha-2 Release (Javier Cano Linares)

Configuration

• Globus Documentation Project - Wiki - Configuration
• Globus Toolkit 3.2: Installation Guide: Required Configuration
• Grid Map File (what is and how to use the grid-mapfile)

Troubleshooting

• Globus Documentation Project - Wiki - Troubleshooting
• GT3.2.1 Spurious "Delegation protocol violation" Error
• init_sec_context.c:171: gss_init_sec_context: SSLv3 handshake problems

Evaluation

• GT3 security performance evaluation (Olle Mulmo)
• OGSA/GT3 evaluation at CERN (Word, PPT)
• Practical Experience with the Globus Toolkit 3 and OGSA (Cern, PPT)

Security

• GlobusSecurityCode, practical notes on coding secure services and clients with GT3 (Guy Rixon)

FAQs

• Globus Documentation Project - FAQ

Tutorials

• GT3 Programmer's Tutorial (Borja Sotomayor)
• GT4 Programmer's Tutorial (Borja Sotomayor)
• How to write GT4 Services (code)
• WSRF Grid Services & GT4 installation (Scott Gose)
• GW2005 Build a Service Material (Lisa Childers)
• GT3.2 to GT4 Migration: A First HOWTO
• How to Build an OGSI Grid Service Using the Globus Toolkit® 3 (Globus Alliance, ANL, SuperComputing2003)
• Collected notes on various experiments with web and grid services (Guy Rixon)
• IBM developerWorks: Grid computing: Crunch big numbers with GT3 using a quadratic sieve (code)
• IBM developerWorks: Grid computing: Tutorials (build a grid app with Perl, Python, etc.)
• Globus Tutorial, Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2002, Argonne National Lab (PPT, PDF, videos: Introduction, Basics, Common, Security, Communication, Resource Management, Data, Management, Information)

Softwares

• The Globus Toolkit:
  • Globus Toolkit 4.0: latest draft of Ian Foster's "GT4 Primer", and Common Runtime Components: Key Concepts
  • Globus Toolkit Downloads
  • GT3.2 JavaDoc
  • Search the Globus Alliance Email Archives
  • Globus Toolkit Documentation Map (links to dev and release docs, 2.4, 3.0, 3.2, 3.9.x, 4.x)
  • OASIS Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) TC
  • The WS-Resource Framework
  • Status and Plans for the Globus Toolkit 4.0 (GT4) as of February 1 2005
• Globus Documentation Project - Downloads

Papers

• TODO: convert Sebastien's 120+ PDF/PPT links to references

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