Our mission is the make such systems both usable and broadly accessible for computational science and engineering. Globus The Globus project is developing basic software infrastructure for computations that integrate geographically distributed computational and information resources. Research topics include fundamental issues in security, communications, quality of service, scheduling, and programming methodologies and tools. Development activities are producing toolkits, testbeds, and applications allowing practical exploration of metacomputing concepts. Nexus Nexus is a portable library providing the multithreading, communication, and resource management facilities required to implement advanced languages, libraries, and applications in heterogeneous parallel and distributed computing environments.
Nexus is intended for use by compiler writers and library developers.
The Globus project builds on Nexus mechanisms. As a solution, we are exploring the development of an HPF binding for the Message Passing interface. This provides a standard set of functions for coupling multiple HPF tasks to form task-parallel computations. Zipper The Zipper project is intended to produce security tools required to support high-performance NII applications.