10.4. Globus grid services
The following sections describe a few of the services that will be available with Globus Toolkit V3. Again, this is early information, and may change before general availability. It is presented here to provide the reader with a flavor of what the services in Globus Toolkit V3 will look like.
10.4.1. Index Services
Index Services is like the MDS feature in GT2. It provides information about the grid services in XML format. Unlike GT2, there is no need for a GRIS because each service has a set of information associated with itself. This information is stored in a standard way, making it easy to retrieve and understand the service data. Each service is required to report common service data and any additional data is ...
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