Grid Toolkits
Toolkits effectively provides tools(FTP,SSH)
and services(security, resource management, web service) to build
Grid environments and Grid Systems. It is not necessary that these toolkits
provide all the tools and services, third party tools/services can also be
integrated with these toolkits to build a complete System and an environment.
Toolkit can be compared to a foundation of a building.
Characteristics:
1) Bag of Services
2) Bag of Tools
3) Bag of Utilities
4) Bag of Applications
Grid Toolkits - Projects
- WebCom-G
- Globus Toolkit
- Legion
- Unicore
- Platforms LSF
Cluster Building Suits
- OSCAR
- ROCKS distribution
- MOAB Cluster Suite
- Open Scalable Cluster Environment (OpenSCE)