Hi all,
I’m very curious and excited about the Grid technology. Currently, there are quite a number of organizations that make use of the Grid to facilitate their projects. I’m doing a research and by the end of the year, my research mates and I are supposed to build a Grid at our campus and get it connected to other campus Grids in the country.
My dilemma is, how to build a grid? We’ve done a lot of research on different grid software packages. And we came to a conclusion that, most of the projects going on now were built using the Globus Toolkit. E.g. LHC (Large Hadron Collider) project (by CERN) is based on Globus plus some other software. Is it a must to use Globus in order to build the basic infrastructure of a Grid? Or, does it depends on what we want to do with the Grid, e.g. complex computation, 3D-image rendering, virtual meeting workspace, or smooth video-conferencing system?
