About:
Globus is a project to provide robust, secure, peer-to-peer distributed computing on supercomputers, clusters, and other high-performance systems. It differs from other such network toolkits in that it is tuned to the needs of high-end machines.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
Assorted major feature enhancements and bugfixes were made.

Author:
Kalou <webmaster (at) globus (dot) org> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.11/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.globus.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/downloads/development/
Changelog:
http://www.globus.org/[..]/development/4.1.3/rn/release_notes.html
Mailing list archive:
http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original), OSI Approved :: BSD License (revised), OSI Approved :: Open Software License, The Apache License
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.2.0	31-Jul-2008	The Apache License
Development Alpha- and Beta-quality releases.	4.1.3	13-Jan-2008	BSD License (revised)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.1.3	Major feature enhancements	13-Jan-2008 08:01
4.1.2	Minor feature enhancements	12-Aug-2007 10:19
3.9.5	Major feature enhancements	27-Feb-2005 06:36
3.9.3	Minor bugfixes	01-Nov-2004 08:20
3.9.2	Major feature enhancements	08-Oct-2004 02:02

 Comments

[»] Very large java-by-committee
by Jimmy Nickel - Nov 8th 2004 19:05:33

I had the distinction of making my living from Globus for the past year. It paid the rent. Its not that I don't appreciate the concept or the theories associated with Grid Computing, its just that Globus is large, extremely slow (that is to say, has more overhead than a convertible), extremely buggy, leaves cryptic and misleading error messages, and isn't documented at all. (Don't let the documentation link on the website fool you, there's very little actual information there).

Globus will be great. In 10 years. But it'll be rolled into Websphere by the end of 2Q2005.

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[»] where are the RPM's?
by Crippler - Jan 19th 2004 11:24:59

There are some potentially good software packages that simply don't get nearly enough attention because of the lack of RPM packages (or at least a working .spec). This is one of them. They have their own installer. Even if you want to just download the source, you have to get it via their installer. Ewww.

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