Appendix B. Research oriented grid 131
Products used
The grid infrastructure is based on multiple products. The next list summarizes
this set.
Globus
Globus Toolkit 3.0 is used as the middleware for the portal and other
components to retrieve resource information. GRAM is used to retrieved the
resource allocation to the different cluster within the infrastructure. The GSI
component within Globus is used for the single sign on infrastructure.
Portal
The portal could be implemented by products such as IBM WebSphere or
Tomcat. It will be interfacing with Globus to retrieve information about their
grid environment and manage and use them interactively.
GridPort
GridPort, which is a software package based on JBOSS, designed to aid in
the dev