About Globus

Globus Alliance

The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the "Grid," which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. Learn more...

Globus Toolkit

The 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. A growing number of projects and companies are using the Globus Toolkit to unlock the potential of grids for their cause. Learn more...

Globus.org Service

This new online, hosted (i.e. Software-as-a-Service or SaaS) offering provides easy-to-use, end-to-end capabilities to researchers trying to use distributed Grid resources. Now available in limited beta testing, the initial service provides reliable, secure, high-performance, fire-and-forget data transfer. Learn more...

dev.globus Grid Software Community

The Globus Alliance is an active member in the community of Grid Software developers. Learn more... As partners in e-Science and e-Business projects, we've built Grid Solutions for a variety of challenges that come up when people share resources. Learn more...

Unlocking Science

Physicists used the Globus Toolkit and MPICH-G2 to harness the power of multiple supercomputers to simulate the gravitational effects of black hole collisions. The team, which included researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany, was awarded a prestigious Gordon Bell prize for its work.