: : ABSTRACT

Grid computing is the use of shared resources for coordinated problem solving between multiple sites or administrative domains. Globus has been fundamental to the advancement of the area, and essential to many application communities dealing with terabytes of data or petaflops of computing effort. This talk will give a brief overview of what Globus can offer to the application scientist in in order to better make use of distributed resources. We will then detail ongoing work extending current functionality in the areas of higher-level data management and data placement tools, services, and the need for reliability. We conclude with a discussion of community contributions to Globus.

Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf is a Scientist in the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory. She is a member of the Globus Alliance, technology lead for the Monitoring and Discovery Service, chair of the Incubator Management project which works with new project intake, and Director for the SciDAC Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science (CEDPS). She received MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, San Diego in Computer Science and Engineering.

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