Open Source Grid Computing
By admin on May 19, 2008 in interesting, open source, research
Here are some open source grid computing software that are quite interesting.
GridGain is the open source grid computing software for Java. It is dual-licensed under LGPL and Apache 2.0 licenses and is built on open source software foundation
BOINC is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing. BOINC is designed to support applications that have large computation requirements, storage requirements, or both. The main requirement of the application is that it be divisible into a large number (thousands or millions) of jobs that can be done independently.
BOINC is used by SETI@home
Globus Toolkit is an open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications. It is being developed by the Globus Alliance and many others all over the world.
NGrid is an open source (LGPL) grid computing framework written in C#. NGrid aims to be platform independent via the Mono project.
Other useful references
- Open Grid Forum
- Open Grid Service Architecture represents an evolution towards a Grid system architecture based on Web services concepts and technologies.
- Software components for grid systems and applications.